Intentionality Informs the Existential Field.

We're a part of an interactive field that includes everyone and
everything. All we think, say and do affects it all. Whatever happens
anywhere, anytime, any-dimension affects us.

FIELD THEORY-INTENTIONALITY

We're are "a continuous consciousness-body-world field .... Whatever
affects other people and the world" affects us, too; whatever happens
to us "affects other people and the world around" us. [Koestenbaum,
P. The New Image of The Person, 1974, page 40]

We're are distinct, as individual consciousnesses, from our bodies,
from other people, from our environment and from the rest of the
universe. Yet our consciousness and its objects--body, other people
and our environment--are interdependent, reciprocally and continuous.
Existential field theory recognizes our inclusion in larger entities
with our body, others and the world.

This connection between us and the objects of our consciousness is
intentionality.

To understand the existential field that All-Chakra Tantra provides:
* Take ourselves and others as we exist--living, acting, feeling
phenomena, at this moment--in an organic relationship with each
other.

* Appreciate the shifting constellations of meanings constituting our
own and other people's bodily experienced reality.

* Contact phenomena as we live them out and experience them.

* Focus on people in their concrete, meaningful, everyday experiences.

* Recognize the interdependence of our lived-bodies, space around us,
actions, experiences and the organization of our personal worlds.

* Find the meaning of life in our own limited and finite life on this
earth in our current embodiments.

* Take into equal and simultaneous consideration (for us and for all
humanity) what we relate to and how we and our objects relate.

* Explicate the essence, form and structure of human experience and
behavior through disciplined reflection and description as well as
tantric experiences.

* Simultaneously ask ourselves, "Who am I?" and "What kind of world
do I live in?" as inseparably bound aspects of our unified
personality, body and environment.

[* Definitions from Valle, R., & King, M.,1978, Existential-
Phenomenological Alternatives for Psychology, Oxford University Press]

LEARN FROM OUR SUBJECTIVE, OBJECTIVE, INDIVIDUAL AND UNIVERSAL
ASPECTS

Koestenbaum says we find peace when we learn our existence is like a
field with two dimensions, subjective-objective and individual-
universal.

The subjective-objective dimension has two poles.

The subjective pole is our mind, consciousness or awareness. The
objective is the environment. The environment can include our body
and other people.

Existence connects us with our body, other people and the rest of the
world. We and our environment define each other.

We know our individual-universal options when we realize we'll die to
life in our present embodyment. This life, we choose how we use ourtime, energy, life, realizing we have a finite life span. Knowing our
body, intellect and unique personality as constellated in their
present time/space context won't survive makes we aware of our
individuality options.

Humanity and nature, of which our consciousness is part, will survive
us; knowing this makes our outlook more universal. We're aware that
universal, infinite, eternal loving consciousness runs though us.

We can, at will, change our way of experiencing situations by
experiencing ourselves from different positions between the
subjective-objective and individual-universal dimensions of the
field. We have subjective, objective, individual and universal
aspects and can emphasize whichever aspects best serve us.
[Koestenbaum, P. The New Image of The Person, 1974, Pages 108- 141]