synecdoche

"Man is ignorant of the nature of his own being and powers. Even his idea of his limitations is based on experience of the pad. There is therefore no reason to assign theoretical limits to what he may be, or what he may do." (Aleister Crowley)

"If it were within, within our power/ beyond the reach of slavish pride/ To no longer harbour grievances/ behind the mask, opportunists' facade/ We could welcome responsibilty, like a long-lost friend/ and re-establish laughter in the doll's house once again/ For time has imprisoned us in the order of our years, in the discipline of our ways.../ and in the passing of momentary stillness, we can see our chaos in motion, our chaos in motion/ we can see our chaos in motion, view our chaos in motion..." 'In the Kingdom of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King' -- Dead Can Dance, The Serpent's Egg'

"The meta-programming circuit -- known as the "soul" in Gnosticism, the "no-mind" (wu-hsin) in China, the White Light of the Void in Tibetan Buddhism, Shiva-darshana in Hinduism, the True Intellectual Center in Gurdjieff -- simply represents the brain becoming aware of itself. The artist seeing himself in his painting, seeing himself seeing himself in his painting... In the Zen metaphor, it is a mirror that reflects anything, but does not hold onto anything. It is a conscious mirror that knows it can always reflect something else by changing its angle of reflection. This is analyzed mathematically in G. Spencer Brown's 'Laws of Form'; an analog, using not Brown's math, but Godel's, and employing illustrations from the music of Bach and the paintings of Escher, is Hofstadter's 'Godel, Escher, Bach'."

"According to Alfred Korzybski, any 'idea' or mental state is a brain circuit which the brain itself can contemplate, thereby having an idea about the idea, or a mental state about the mental state, etc. There is no theoretical or real limit to the higher-ordering process; it is the 'Infinity Within' of which mystics speak. Dr. John Lilly says, 'In the province of the mind what is believed true, is true, or becomes true, within limits to be learned by experience and experiment. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits.' "