Radical Subjectivity
Radical Subjectivity is the perspective that everything is arising in Consciousness, and that is the base and starting point of everything else.
Most of the ways we have learned to think and speak are from the position of relative reality. As I mentioned earlier, in relative reality I describe myself as coming on to the scene of a world that already existed before I was born. I learn about relative reality from other people’s perspectives. My parents saw me being born and told me I was.
I hear these facts from the outside and make sense of my life by imagining myself as others see and experience me. In my mind, I look at “myself” as if I were another person standing outside “looking at” myself. That is the relative subjective sense of myself, a self-image that I generated and identify with, and as this relative subjective self, I see the world outside of the body as a relative objective world.
However, from the Radically Subjective perspective, I was never “born.” There was initially no clear difference between my self and that of which I was aware. I only remember gradually becoming aware of things and making sense of them.
For most folks, the perspective of Radical Subjectivity gets lost, ignored or discounted. This is the case, even though it is our most basic and effortless reality underneath the relative world that we learned about through concepts.
Both Radical and Relative Together
I’m not suggesting that we should be living without any relative frame of reference, not at all. What I am suggesting is that all relative frames of reference are part of what is unpacked from the infinite potential for manifestation that is latent in the Red node.
Red is the non-conceptual “emptiness” node. Radical Subjectivity is “naked” in the Red node. But when Radical Subjectivity is dressed up as each of the other nodes, it is still fully there in its nakedness, under (and in) the clothes of each of them.
So Radical Subjectivity underlies the perspective of the whole Mandala in the Tapestry of Being. It is the real ground of all of the nodes. So in this way of orienting to the mystery of life, the perspectives of relative reality are seen as features, aspects, or parts of Radical Subjectivity to be embraced.
While remembering the Radical Subjective perspective in any moment, we are free to make use of any relative perspective that is useful. We can also notice that Consciousness is naturally intrinsic to each node.
(From The Tapestry of Being, Chapter 2: You Are Freedom Itself)