Charts

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1. This first chart below follows the progression of the theory of perception originally laid out in my short book The Evolution of Perception.

2. This chart from Essentials of a Spiritual Metaphysics is one of many I did to relate my own ideas to Meher Baba's spiritual teaching. It gives my whole theory at a glance. It conveys how the world is a perceptual illusion, yet is not independent of the Reality that is its true source (God).

3. The following three charts break the idea into three distinct parts. First (in 2) is the creation of the inorganic world, the second (chart 3) covers the formation of the individual form through which individual experience develops more and more fully, and the third (chart 4) covers the formation of thought and full individual experience in a human being. The first (below) takes the evolution of perception from the point of its origin in the eye or imagination of God (in this sense God as Universal Mind) up to the appearance of what we call matter, or the inorganic natural universe in which we later find ourselves surrounded.

4. This chart follows the chart above and illustrates the appearance out of the inorganic world of the the organic forms through which living things perceive and gradually experience themselves to be.

5. This chart takes up that same progression from the point of the first individual human being state as it continues to evolve its individual experience as a human being, fully finding itself in the world thus formed, with a full complex human psyche capable of judgments and interpretations through the evolved mind and its psychic impressions.

6. This chart conveys a particular point of the the idea of "projection" of seeing from a single source (Universal Mind) though the lenses or schemata to form the individual and then begins to split apart as the human sees more separately owing to its own individual impressions. It most importantly conveys at a glance the point that all experience of the universe by each individual is the same universe, yet when filtered through the individual collection of impressions of a human being takes on an individual character (slightly different for each individual atma) due to the individual's consolidated gathered impressions (sanskaras).

7. This chart (below) tries to show the same concept as described above, culminating in the individual seeing of the world (Projected percept represented as a movie screen).

8. This show at a glance the appearance of the form out of law, which are nothing more than complex perceptual schematic relations of time and space (also schemata).

9. Much as above.

10. Much repetition of above, with other details highlighted.

All of my charts are public domain and can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Christopher_Jonathan_Ott