From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 22:15:27 GMT
Dear Platt,
You asked 13 Dec 2002 10:44:36 -0500:
'Would you care to expand on why you think "being possessed by Quality
refers to MoQ thinking and "having experience of value refers to SOM
thinking?" Could you give some examples of the two different types of
thinking? Which of the two types of thinking makes the distinction between
types of thinking?'
MoQ implies that subjects and objects are a result of Quality (or Quality
events). SOM thinking implies that quality or value is a result of subjects
valuing objects. Why I thinks so? Because of the social and intellectual
patterns of value in which I participate (i.e. the way I'm used to use
language and hear/read it being used). In SOM terms: it is a matter of
subjective connotations of words and wordings and not of a hard distinction.
You wrote:
'I consider Quality to be a single, all embracing, ineffable entity
synonymous with the "inner light" or "Divine One".'
I would formulate it a little bit more cautiously: I consider "Quality"
(with the connotations it gets by reading 'Lila') to be a fitting concept
for my experience that in other circumstances can also be "pointed at" with
"inner light" or "Divine One" or -to use terminology that I am more used to-
"divine guidance". The caution is implied in avoiding the verb 'to be', that
seems to refers in this sentence to some objective reality and to replace it
with (my) experience. I don't feel I know a lot about the experience of
crabs, so I hesitate to make statements about how to describe their
experience and how it relates to my experience. Your statement that 'the
light within a crab is the same light that is within me' seems overly bold
to me. I don't deny it. I just don't know.
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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