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ON IMPERIENCE AND EVENT HORIZON
everyday mode of living. In particular, the subject- object duality that characterizes the manner in which we ordinarily think is superseded by "consciousness- without-an-object." If we understand this we would be able to appreciate Dr. K. C. Varadachari‘s restrictive usage of the term "experience" for events that occur in the relative domain, and why he coined the term "imperience" for transcendent events. In our ordinary state of consciousness knowledge is possible through the two processes of sensory perception and rational thinking, whereas in the transcendent domain a new mode of knowledge becomes available, knowledge through identification with that which is known or what some thinkers call Noetic. That is what we mean by the word Laya or mergence. The states of Laya or mergence are as many as the knots and sub-knots and buffers. Imperience then would mean wisdom through identity and its characteristics are that it is immediate and highly Noetic. This is not in any way affecting the earlier definition I made of this word and as a matter of fact this only elaborates the same. It is not anything happening internal or inside our body but
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