Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man," Meditative Consciousness - a podcast by Daniel Dal Monte

In this podcast, I continue to explore the meaning of Wallace Stevens' poem, "The Snow Man," and its connection to Eastern traditions depiction of meditative consciousness. "The nothing" at the end of the poem is an ultimate intellect that is undifferentiated into distinct things, and involves a full merger of the self into a larger eternal self. The meditative consciousness enters sacred space and time, in which it is no longer a discrete self occupying a unique point in space and time. I develop a view that distinguishes the idea of pure consciousness of simplicity from a Christian tradition that retains the individual self and personal God with a distinct identity. Meditative consciousness of nothing even goes beyond God, because that is a concept with a bounded identity. Read the book, "Mind of Winter," by William Bevis!

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