9. THE SPLITTING OF FOCUS
THE SENSATION appears as an immediate experience.
But for the experience to be understood, it must simultaneously be possible to observe it.
FOCUS therefore divides into two simultaneous directions.
One follows the experienced sensation — the B side, qualia, that which is felt.
The other establishes a perspective on the same sensation — the E side, that which understands.
This splitting is not a choice. It is a direct consequence of FOCUS following the emergence of THE SENSATION. It arises because FOCUS does not merely follow THE SENSATION, but simultaneously establishes a perspective on it.
For the first time a distinction thus arises between that which is experienced and that which observes the experience.
THE SENSATION and the perspective emerge simultaneously and follow each other throughout the entire reading.
The splitting of FOCUS is therefore not the place where polarity arises — that is established already in the first differentiation. The splitting of FOCUS is the mechanism that activates the polarity: that sets B and E in motion towards each other and allows the primary alternation to begin to rotate.
The splitting of FOCUS thus establishes the fundamental architecture that will later make observation, understanding, KNOWING and the Experience Circle possible.
