How Consciousness is different than the Emptiness as formless awareness

well in terms of the Sword as the Phallus, the ancient literature is based on the Cosmic Mother (Apeiron). So that a self-castration from the Sword is actually a means of merging with the Cosmic Mother as natural regenerative energy through eternal time. Plato incorrectly stating "Time is the Image of Eternity" and so geometry does not provide us with Time - only listening in silence does, as Pythagoras taught. So the "instinctive/intuitive" response is that Socrates LIED because of what I call the "Liar of the Lyre." (the music math is from Philolaus literally flipping his Lyre around and thereby creating the Great Lie of Western physics as symmetric magnitude).

Socrates also followed this lie and politically it was advocated by Leo Strauss as the Great Lie (as well as by Hitler and now Drumpf). So yes the supposed "sacredness" of Plato just means talk is cheap and the Great Lie can be partitioned equally, logarithmically into what Plato called 9/8, the value of each citizen for the good of the state. Zizek uses the Sword to define the tautologies of Western logic as the origination of the "isms" of the Left (racism, etc.).

So Zizek says only the Sword will heal the wound that it causes (meaning only through technology of science will the West solve its problems). I disagree with this. The Nonwestern view is that only through INTERNAL meditation can our problems be solved since growth happens from within. So it's a different definition of time as from listening through logical inference - and that was the Pythagorean message of Socrates that got lost. Plato instead promoted an infinite argumentative process as to be considered wisdom.

To Know thy Self actually means the Sword is the Phallic Number One but the Pythagoreans taught that One is Not a Number! so the I-thought as the One is actually the speed of light that is turned around into noncommutative phase from music theory. The Pythagorean Tetrad or Tetraktys means that the 1:2:3:4 is the "three in one unity" as Ramana Maharshi called it (another Know Thyself spiritual master). so the "three gunas" of India is actually the same as Pythagorean philosophy and both originate from music theory - as does Daoism.

yes Ramana Maharshi said that deep dreamless sleep - the UNconsciousness - is the same as formless awareness, only the difference is we lack the awareness via the light. So the light is our spiritual ego as consciousness but the formless awareness as the Emptiness is the "Ether" or Yuan Qi that powers the light. The Yuan Shen means to turn the spiritual ego around - to turn the light around - to the speed of light as the "invariance" of consciousness. So the speed of light does not change as the "light of no light" (the yuan shen) while everything else is relative to the speed of light - including Zero and Infinity. So those relative aspects of energy naturally harmonize via the Future being relative to the past.

The future is always secretly guiding the matter made of light, via the energy of the future (called the  "virtual information field" by qigong master Yan Xin). I have done several blog posts on this about the Tai Chi as the virtual information field - so it is eternal time as eternal motion as the 5th dimension. As Yogananda called it, "evernew, everfresh."

nd so he called me up to ask him to help him write his memoir. So we were talking for two hours on the phone and he said how he can see in 4 directions at the same time and that anyone can train to do this! Then he said he had been having a conversation with my mom while we were talking! My mom was asleep upstairs so I knew he had been healing her. I didn't say anything but the next day my sister was shocked to see my mom cook breakfast for herself for the first time in months. I still did not say anything. Then my mom had so much energy that the next day she walked to the mailbox a half mile - just cuz she wanted to. I still did not say anything. Then my mom's friends started asking her what had happened and she said, "I don't know I just woke up and had all this energy!" Before she could barely walk up the stairs! I still did not say anything. Finally a week went by and my mom still felt awesome and I talked to Jim again. I said Jim you must have sent extra energy! He said yeah I had to send her energy several times and that it was easier to heal her while she was asleep so that her mind would not get in the way of the healing. That was six years ago.