THE LIMINAL FIELD: Understanding
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Short Description A philosophical reflection on the distinction between knowing and understanding. Through the hypotheses of parallel dimensions, the soul, and resonance, the text explores the possibility that neutral presence may function as a vector of perception capable of accessing realities that remain beyond ordinary experience. Abstract This essay examines the distinction between knowledge and understanding, proposing that the two should not be considered synonymous. Something may be known without being fully understood, just as contact with a phenomenon does not automatically provide comprehension of its nature. Using speculative examples such as a non-physical sun, the soul, and possible parallel dimensions, the text investigates how realities beyond ordinary perception might be approached. It suggests that direct exploration may not depend on physical displacement but on resonance with a corresponding field. Within this framework, neutral presence is proposed as the potential vector of exploration. Free from expectations and identifications, it functions as a receptive and transmissive element within the unified system of body, mind, consciousness, and presence. Through resonance, it may acquire the qualities of what it encounters and make them available to the entire system without necessarily understanding them. The essay ultimately argues that reception precedes understanding. Knowing may arise through resonance long before comprehension becomes possible, making understanding neither a prerequisite nor an automatic consequence of experience.
Author: FMOO, Oliva
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225465047