SOM privileges language over reality; the abstract over the real. not the
other way round.
when you are reading - immersed in reading - you are experiencing a
*reality* that the author and your own mind have in tandem constructed.
the words are the bond between you and the author. words, per se, are
abstract. words crafted into art become something bigger and more real -
more immediate - than the 'words' themselves.
experience in the present is the terrain. reflection upon experience
(thought) produces maps.
mysticism and deconstructing (ie analysing) seem antithetical to me. perhaps
what you mean is that deconstruction is a preparatory step. that is, like
zamm, it is an intellectual path towards realizing the limits of intellect?
cheers
gav
>From: Scott Roberts <jse885@ilhawaii.net>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: Re: MD pragmatism
>Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 09:41:07 -1000
>
>John,
>
>It would take a long-ish essay to respond adequately. I'm working on
>one, but can't promise when or if I'll finish. So meanwhile,
>
>It is not idealism. It is anti-realism, perhaps. The main point is to
>break the SOM-ish habit of privileging reality over language. To make
>one objection to what you say, why do you seem to regard reading as not
>being an "immediate experience"? The problem is attachment, whether when
>using words or walking through a forest.
>
>It is not inconsistent. Perhaps I should have said "there is no terrain
>that is not itself a map (of another terrain, etc. forever)".
>Mathematics might be an exception, in that the thinking of a
>mathematical object is the object, but that's another essay.
>
>Robert Magliola differentiates between what he calls "centric" mysticism
>from "differential" mysticism, and I'm working the differential side of
>the street. Centric mysticism might be thought of as mysticism from a
>SOM perspective, where there is typically some goal: union with God, for
>example. Differential is more about skillful means, emphasizing
>detachment by deconstructing whatever one has glommed on to. Each has
>its value, though I think differential is the better tool for this
>modernist-to-postmodern age. YMMV.
>
>- Scott
>
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