1. a
point of
awareness from which one can perceive.
(PAB 2)2. that thing which an
individual puts out remotely, to
look through. A system of remote
lookingness— we'll call it just
remote viewpoint. That's a specialized kind of viewpoint. And the
place from which the
individual is himself looking, we'll call flatly a viewpoint.
(2ACC 17A, 5312CM07)3.
evaluation is the
reactive mind's conception of viewpoint. The
reactive mind does not perceive, it
evaluates. To the
analytical mind it may sometimes appear that the
reactive mind has a viewpoint. The
reactive mind does not have a viewpoint, it has an
evaluation of viewpoint. Thus the viewpoint of the
analytical mind is an
actual point from which one perceives.
Perception is done by
sight,
sound,
smell,
tactile, etc. The
reactive mind's ‘viewpoint' is an
opinion based on another
opinion and upon a very small amount of
observation, and that
observation would be formed out of uncertainties. Thus the
confusion of the
word viewpoint itself. It can be a
point from which one can be
aware, which is its
analytical definition, and it can be somebody's ideas on a certain
subject which is the
reactive definition.
(CONA, pp. 208-209)