The moment you bring your attention to one mode, there goes the other!

Try as you may, if you "sense" one (the overall undifferentiated field), you can't "get" the other (the sharply differentiated centre of vision), and vice versa.

It may take a while for this to sink in (through drawing), but you will likely come to see that getting "this" rules out getting "that."

For those courageous ones who are discovering this through drawing, please make the effort not to keep whatever one mode of perception made available, when you find yourself already switched to the other mode.

In other words, if you started drawing with a clear connection to a differentiated element, do not keep it when you find yourself no longer connected, seeing a rather undifferentiated field. And of course, if you drew while responding to an undifferentiated field, do not merely add to it a differentiated centre. These two modes do not belong to each other, they are really at odds with each other. (We will look at this centre/periphery duality in greater depth in "part #5.)

Think of it this way: you started making a head using clay, and halfway through the making of that head, you change your mind, you now want to make a foot! You don't throw the head away and get new clay to make the foot. Instead, you "shape the head into a foot" (morphing? ;-), suspending your reliance on the symbolic "head" appearance and shifting to another mode, allowing you even to find parts of the head useful in making the foot.

This applies to how you can bounce off whatever you accomplished when in one mode of perception to realize that which you now see as needed while in the other mode, ad infinitum (or at least for as long as your paper will allow it as this requires much erasing used as a genuine and legitimate drawing means).

This is a great chance to experience consciously the full impact of that dilemma I have been talking about for so long: one knows one's vision is not split in two parts, yet one can't deny that sensing/seeing one area makes one lose one's conscious awareness of the other.

We seem to only have access to the awareness of one mode at a time, the oneness of our seeing does not seem to be available to us in conscious perception!

What can one do about that?