Translucence in the 'Middle Muddle'

If the opaque is the 'bottom layer' of your inner perceptions – the almost inaccessible part of your noticing, then the 'middle muddle' is the part of you that has received material from that opaque part of you and brought it into translucence. This layer isn't transparent, but it is accessible. Sometimes you can only catch a glimpse of it out of the corner of your eye. Sometimes it almost communicates with you in words. Sometimes it is a gut feeling or sense of a plumb line leaning you in a certain way, dropping an interoceptive hint. Or maybe you see it in colors or feel it like a tuning fork. When you access this middle muddle, you have an increased potential for learning, for refinement. And this shift to learning in one domain – say, learning more about how you reach for a cup – seems to enliven much of the bored old bottom layer, not just the part that is responsible for how you move your arm. You remind the middle muddle that it is a learning system and that learning can be a lot of fun. Slowly but surely, other formerly opaque parts of the bottom layer become more alive, more curious, better at communicating with all the systems that are you. The opaque makes appearances in the middle muddle.