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>PIRSIG
>..he thought that the light was nothing more than involuntary widening of
>the iris of the eyes of the observer that lets in extra light and makes
>things look brighter, a kind of hallucinatory light produced by optic
>stimulation, somewhat like the light that comes when one stares at something
>too long. Like eye blinks, it's assumed to be an an [sic] irrelevant
>interruption of what one "really" sees, or it's assumed to be a subjective
>phenomenon, which is unreal...(p387-388).
>RICK
>This, I believe, is the real smoking gun. Clearly he feels that we all SEE
>the Dharmakaya light. He's suggesting that our culture explains away the
>light as 'irrelevant' or 'unreal'.... not that we're blind to it.
ERIN: You take peyote, stare at a light too long you hallucinate this
dharmakaya light. Yes we all have the ability to hallucinate. One culture
says pay attention and the other culture says ignore. Social level mediating
the intellectual level. What so smokin' about this, what I am I still missing
here?
Why is this such a smoking gun.
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