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Jiang's term, drawn from Kant, for things in themselves or the real spiritual world behind appearances.
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noumena
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Glossary
The transcript says 'nomina'; context indicates Jiang is referring to Kant's noumena, objective reality or things in themselves.
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Jiang's 'Nomana': things-in-themselves, objective reality, and later the spiritual/conscious reality behind appearances.
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Kant's objective reality or thing-in-itself, which humans cannot directly know in Jiang's summary.
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Jiang invokes Kant to distinguish noumena, the things in themselves, from phenomena, reality as filtered through time and space for us.
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Jiang says one cannot actually see noumena with the senses; the only access to that real world is through the heart or faith.
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Jiang divides reality into objective reality, the things in themselves or noumena, and phenomena, the things as they appear or are understood by us.
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Kant's distinction between noumena and phenomena is used to describe reality itself as things-in-themselves and perception as the translation of that reality into things as they appear to us.
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The noumenal is described metaphorically as consciousness, energy, vibration, information, Monad, God, and vibrational fields that generate dyads and the basic structure of the universe.
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Kant's model is summarized as active filtering: humans cannot know the noumenal thing-in-itself, only the phenomenal world produced by mental filters such as space and time.
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"so let me explain some some con to you manual count okay and this is his understanding of how we perceive things so con..."
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"Okay? So what he tells us is this. Traditionally, we've understood ourselves as passive observers of reality. Okay? This thing is before us. We..."
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"Love is the unifying force of the universe, the God force. The imagination is the animating force of the universe. And this is the..."
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"And we do this by filtering, the Nomana, through time and space."
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"And this is a question that mystics, monks, have been struggling with for all of human history. Okay? And so, we can never describe..."
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"they Squ量 I'm going to explain how this system works and when I do it when I explain to you it will make sense..."
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"But Kant says that we are active, sorry, we'll wait for this. So, Kant says that we are active participants in reality. How? Well,..."
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"The first question then... first question is, what is the nomina? Kant says we can never know it, but, we still want to know..."
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