Hey Glenn,
The more I think about it, the more I really like this reading...
GLENN
> 2) pupils widen involuntarily and unpredictably in all people. When this
> happens, the light goes in your brain, but before it gets to the
perception
> centers in the visual cortex, it is cut off if your objectivity is high.
If
> objectivity is low, the D. effect is seen. DQ will manifest itself...
RICK
I read over the passage again looking for clues that might further confirm
or refute this interpretation. I didn't find anything dispositive, but I
did focus in on this...
PIRSIG
...But nobody sees it because the cultural definition of what is real and
what is unreal filters out the Dharmakaya light from twentieth-century
American "reality" just as surely as time is filtered out of Hopi reality,
and green-yellow differences mean nothing to the Natchez.
RICK
What he says about the Natchez is helpful because color is also a light
based phenomenon. Using your interpretation above, it would seem that if I
placed two crayons in front of a man from the Natchez culture, the different
frequencies would enter his brain, but before they made it to the perception
center in the visual cortex, they would be cut out by cultural definitions
of what colors do and don't exist. Therefore, the green/blue distinction
would simply never manifest itself in the Natchez's field of vision.
What this suggests is that there nothing more mystical about Dharmakaya
than there is about the difference between green and blue!!! That is, every
Natchez may see Dharmakaya, but only the least 'objective' of them would see
the differences between green and blue. When a Natchez 'let go' of his
static patterns he wouldn't suddenly see Dharmakaya, he would suddenly see
the difference between green and blue. He would try to describe the
difference to other Natchez who would say it was all in his head. He would
point to the abundant references to both green AND blue in the writings of
other cultures (like ours). He would point to artwork from other cultures
for evidence of the different use of the colors. He would be a 'Natchez
Phaedrus'.
A Natchez who saw the Dharmakaya light would probably seem unspectacular
to other members of his cultures... but if he saw the difference between
green and blue... he would be a mystic.
rick
PS
I can't do much with the bit about the Hopi's because I have a really hard
time understanding what he means when he says they have no concept of time.
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