Physical endowment
Intellectual powers
Perceptual interpretation
Spiritual appearance in nature is incomplete in its true essence. Aesthetics moves observation beyond a deficient and impoverished view of reality.
“To each plane of reality there corresponds an instrument of knowledge adequate to the task of knowing that particular level of reality.” – Hossein Nasr
Faithful light
Coastal nuances
Ocean morning
Experiencing the sun dynamically rise over the ocean affects emotionally. Gazing out into a vast, slowly-shifting, color-soaked sky is empowering, decelerating time perception. Certain encounters provoke a need to update mental patterns.
“The ocean is this beautiful, unexplored place. Why on Earth everyone isn’t down there, I don’t know.” – Graham Hawkes
Higher level
Without precision
Intimate immensity
The sea as a physical threshold is inexhaustible in its ability to psychically stimulate a sense of liberation. Layers of perception mediate positioning between emotional and intellectual experience.
“We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world.” – David Attenborough
Narrow sense
Sublime fullness
Experience workings
The ocean stimulates primal feelings. In a biological sensory exchange, physical manifestations translate into aesthetic experience at a constitutive site unifying material and mental environments.
“Experience is a product, one might almost say bi-product, of continuous and cumulative interaction of an organic self with the world.” – John Dewey
Details and layers
Sense of mystery
Destiny journey
For Aristotle, nature means the creative force, or productive principle, of the universe. From this position he defines poetic imitation as an act of imaginative creation, where source material from the phenomenal world is made into something new by an artist.
“I am the sky the ocean, one dream survives forever, on through the air, like the rays of the sun.” – Pamela Copus
Sublime preceding
Spiritual influence
Underlying reality
Things can be finite in extent but still not have an edge. There are earthly experiences that indicate an infinite universe.
“We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.” – Plotinus
Open potential
Infinite demand
Fleeting significance
Cultivating emotional attachments situated on the oceanic edge, moments become inexplicably momentous. All constructions of the past and the future are forged by the present.
“A belief in the power of positive thinking and attention to the everyday involves a simultaneous recognition of the transience and fallibility of all things.” – Megan Craig
Dynamic endurance
Inexhaustible richness
Complex interrelation
On a beach walk, instinctual feelings establish contact with existence in its organic vitality. Living interpretations and pluralistic meanings of abstract universals synthesize into a coherent whole.
“The true life is absent. But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.” – Emmanuel Lévinas
Various conditions
Independent movement
Regenerative process
Any conception of the uniformity of nature is based on experience and the cerebral extension of that experience introducing modifications into apparent evidence. As time rolls on, a vast number of undiscovered facts lie all around.
“In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.” – William Barrett
Striking particulars
Detailed deductions
Observation acceptance
A significant pleasurable cognitive state is potentially triggered by specific experience conditions. Aesthetic moments present when and if the recipient is mentally prepared for acquiescence.
“Nature is known to us in our experience as a complex of passing events.” – Alfred North Whitehead