This is a very difficult question to answer simply. I am definitely not an expert on Ryle’s work but from my personal understanding only, I would have to say that the answer to this question would be yes and no simultaneously, and this is perhaps the biggest problem that the modern objective world has with inner alchemy, in that it cannot reconcile simultaneous quantum existence.
Is the ghost from my work the same as the idea of the ‘ghost in the machine’ in Ryle’s work?
‘I say no’ because from what I know of Ryle’s work, he argued that there was no duality because in accordance with logic (meaning his idea of logic), such a version of logic cannot reconcile a separation between action and actor. From the inner alchemist point of view there is indeed an inner essence that in later stages of development (as vibrational frequency moves into what could be referred to as the objective or the physical world) could be called mind. Another way to say this would be to say that everything has an inner reality, an inner source that is responsible for the outer world, or as I like to say inner essence creates outer objectiveness. In that sense, from the inner alchemist’s point of view, there is an aspect that exists beyond biology and does continue, after the biological organism dies. And in that sense therefore, there is duality.
‘I say yes’ because in accordance with inner alchemy and what I have referred to as lucidity, it is understood that at a fundamental level there is no separation between any one thing and another, let alone between something that has been compartmentalized and conceptualized as a body and another part that has been compartmentalized and conceptualized as a mind. When a projectionist projects, one part of them moves across dimensions and a second part could be said to stay within the physical world. These parts seem separate but once lucidity is established, both are seen as the same thing; such a projectionist could be said to be in multiple dimensions simultaneously. Lucidity is the conscious understanding and awakening to this energetic fact that the body and the mind are one, that the mind is the body because the body is created from mind stuff. In that sense, inner alchemy agrees with Ryle.
It both agrees and disagrees with Ryle, see what I mean.
My conception of the ghost in the machine therefore is more than just a way to give a term to a duality that Ryle wanted to critique. For me as a practising inner alchemist, I use the term ghost in the machine to describe an accidental creation within the intensity of existence that has the possibility of defying the finite properties of the individuality that comes into existence within the physical dimension.