/lit/ - Literature

>>20312681
>What do you think about pic. Related?
The distinction between Paramasiva and Siva seems arbitrary. I don't understand if they are positing two types or modes of consciousness or something else. I once tried asking the main /lit/ Shaivism fan Frater Asemlen about this but I got no answer, but he might not have seen my question. I don't agree with the teaching of Kashmir Shaivism that Paramashiva/Shiva needs Shakti to be conscious, not only because I agree with the phenomenological arguments for the position that reflexive/pre-reflective self-awareness is a necessary precondition of all intentional conscious experiences/states, but also because at that point I don't see why it even makes sense to define Paramashiva/Shiva as consciousness instead of as some unrealized potential which is actualized in the presence of Shakti to form consciousness by their union.

>Is there some sort of Advaita tattva "model" like this?
Yes, pic related. This chart places the 'vasanas' in the causal body, but not all Advaita lineages place the vasanas there and some place them in the subtle body instead.

>>20107100
>Lack of hierarchical chain of Being that seperates the absolutely transcendent One from Nous, Soul and materi-