I am writing on this blog about whatever I can think of to supplement the Advanced Edition of 2013: The Day God Sees God, published in February 2008. In particular, I would like to talk a little about the concept of “front” and “back” in the physical body to help you understand the basic terms of Noosology, “GAIMEN (the Outside=visible) of human being” and “NAIMEN (the Inside=invisible) of human being”. As I wrote in the Advanced Edition, I have come to comprehend these concepts unique to Noosology, “the Outside and the Inside of the human being,” correspond to the space “forward” and “backward” from the body, respectively.

Our consciousness usually thinks about space from a position sank in three-dimensional space, so we are hardly aware of the tremendous difference between “forward” and “backward” orientations. Perhaps the higher dimensional structure shaped by the unconscious, which Noosology has been calling JIGEN-KANSATSUSHI (Dimension-paratiron) will, after all, be overlaid and discussed with the essential meaning of the three orientations in the body: front-back, left-right, and up-down. Suppose we can see all of the workings of consciousness created by intertwining these three body-space orientations in ourselves and others. In that case, it will probably be equivalent to the manifestation of all of Dimension-paratirons ψ1 to ψ12 in Noosology.　

   So, for now, let us return to the discussion of the “backward” direction introduced in the previous 50 Ways to Leave Your Time (6) to expose the tremendous difference between “forward” and “backward.”

　We cannot see our “back.” There are two directions we call “backward”-“behind my body” and “behind the object seen in front of me”-both of which are unable to see.  These two kinds of “backs” have one thing in common; they can both be contained within the “front” direction of the other when viewed from the side of the other facing me. When we want to see this “behind” that is invisible to us, the tool we use is a mirror. In this sense, a mirror is a substitute for the “front” of the other.

  Therefore, a mirror can make one’s own backward direction appear in their forward direction. This means that a mirror that reflects the viewer’s self in front of them should be called a “rearview mirror” in nature. A mirror is for looking backward.

　So, let us remember how we looked when we woke up in the morning and stood in front of the bathroom mirror. You usually don’t notice it, but what you see with sleepy eyes is still the world “behind” you. It means that the following inference can be made.

–I always thought my face was in the forward direction, but since the world reflected in the mirror is my “back” side of the world, shouldn’t I think of my face as being “behind” rather than attached to my “front” side – this may sound a bit strange, but this means that whether I look forward or backward, there are two different directions of gaze on each side. 

　　Usually, we call the direction in front of us “forward.” Still, we also feel that the place where our face is located is also “front.” This is because the area on the opposite side of our face is called the “occiput” (from Latin oc”ciput; ob-‘against’ + caput ’head’) or the “back of the head” and is literally considered to be “behind” us. But this is a little strange. Because “front” is supposed to refer to the direction where the visible world exists. Still, my face belongs to the side of the invisible world.

  The consciousness that one perceives their own face as being in “front” is completely reversed in its orientation from the consciousness that typically perceives in “front” as in the “forward direction.” Yet, humans are indifferent to the difference in orientation and confuse them all together. To be precise, what we call the back of the head should actually be called the “front,” and the face should be considered the object in the direction of the world behind us.

　My own face, which will always be accompanied by a background that I cannot see, is not real because I can never see its actual appearance; the only way to capture it is through my imagination through a mirror image. For me, my face is only a “mask.” Yes, it is a persona. As the “face,” this persona is the foundation on which we nurture our individuality as human beings, and it is there that our personality (persona) is built up. When I say personality here, it refers to the ego as the supervisor of all meanings that emerge in the phenomenon (the world as it is).

　Therefore, I am wearing the mask of Kohsen Handa, and all the narratives here must be conveyed with emotions by that mask. Perhaps all of you who listen to this narrative also wear masks as ego beings.

　　So this Kohsen Handa wonders what the real face is. What is the true face of oneself that is not a mask? It would be called “OMOTE (front)”* in an old-fashioned way. They say, “Raise your OMOTE (front)!” in Japanese period dramas, right? That’s it. When someone said, “Raise your front!” even people in the olden days would naturally raise their faces, but a face is not one’s front because it is a mask. Very interestingly, there is this exchange in the Sirius file.

　Kohsen: What is the world as humans see it?

　OCOT: It is Men (face.)*

  In Sirius, the word “MEN (face)” seems to refer to the visible world itself. What is it?　Does that mean “front” by any chance? Does it mean that the visible world itself is my face?

　   Yes, the word “MEN (face)” in OCOT’s information corresponds to the very thing I called the “immovable viewing space” in 2013: The Day God Sees God /Advanced Edition….

–To be continued* Both “OMOTE (front)” and “MEN (face)” are written in the same Chinese character: 面