Hello all, thanks for the welcoming responses to my first post.
I know I'm lagging behind the discussion a bit, but I wanted to address
those who would like ideas on how not to think in terms of the SOM. I'm
going to butcher this quote, but Robert Frost said (for those of you
familiar with Robert Frost, I am not, so please accept my interpretation of
the following.) something like "God's ultimate sacrifice was in
substantiation..." That for me sparked a revelation many years ago.
Duality is the price of substance. The wonder of substantiation, besides
the pure experience of the whole thing, is sensation. There is no
sensation, without friction, of either bodies or physical objects, or of
emotions, which are inextricable from sensation in the fact that the
friction is caused by a self or spirit defined by objects. in the
inorganic/biological plane the spirit is divided by objects, so therefore to
discuss itself it must describe its self objectively: this is analogy. If
substantiation of the spirit were not, there were would be no need to
communicate because the having of thought would presuppose the thought of
having it, we would be one. Only then can communication take place without
SOM. This is very basic, there is nothing wrong with SOM thought when
trying to communicate as we do here, it is the nature of language, logic and
of the physical world.
When you speak in terms of creativity, logic can be thrown out the window.
I think an attribute of style that is very powerful and sophisticated is
when a creative person of any discipline, juxtaposes to seemingly
incompatible terms or objects, to form a more accurate description of
something, or to provide a clearer representation of the thing this creator
desires to express. I'm at a loss for examples of course (I'm here at
work). One obvious example is Dillan Thomas's poem Accidentally on Purpose,
or could the character Lila be referred to as "disastrously enchanting"
(yuck, that one was bad.) Anyway, that ability to distill the liminal
element from opposites must hover somewhere near the source of DQ.
Does anybody here have a music background, or ideas about music that they
have applied principles of MoQ to?
I don't have an opinion as to the topic of next months discussion.
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