!- key insight : thought sans image
!- definition : thought sans image
* human beings are NOT defined by what they are thinking, perceiving or saying as mediated by social symbolic systems
* They are also NOT defined by their own narratives or language itself - the symbolosphere is culturally imposed upon the bare human being
* That primordial nature is described as the bare human spirit, the preindividual, being-as-becoming (Simondon)
* Many spiritual traditions guide practitioners to experience this primordial state, the nondual state, stripped of all cultural embellishments
* David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) calls this state thought sans image based on the metaphysical theories of Henri Bergson, Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze and 4E theory of cognition