Ah, many thanks David -- and thanks for the pointer.
Lawry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of David Buchanan
> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 3:16 PM
> To: 'moq_discuss@moq.org'
> Subject: RE: MD Mysticism and manners
>
>
> Lawry and Dan:
>
> Pirsig mentions dreams early in chapter 17, on page 216 of the Bantam
> hardback edition. "He had come to think of dreams as Dynamic
> perceptions of
> reality. They were suppressed and filtered out of consciousness by
> conventional patterns of static social and intellectual order but they
> revealed a primary truth: a value truth." (He dreamed of the
> social giant as
> a hungry cartoon octopus.) And I should add that Pirsig reccomends
> Campbell's work on myths, which can be seen as a kind of collective dream,
> an expression of a cultures innermost values. In fact, the themes, motifs
> and images in dreams are essentially the same as in myths and as
> the theory
> goes, both come from the same source.
>
> Thought you'd like to know,
> DMB
>
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