From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2005 - 10:30:48 GMT
Platt, is this the same person who demands logical objectivity before
entertaining rational argument ?
Nice one.
Ian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>; <owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: MD Understanding Quality and Power
> Hi Scott,
>
>> Here's the Merrell-Wolff quote:
>>
>> "While in the State [of High Indifference, as he called it], I was
>> particularly impressed with the fact that the logical principle of
>> contradiction had no relevancy. It would not be correct to say that this
>> principle was violated, but rather, that it had no application. For to
>> isolate any phase of the State was to be immediately aware of the
>> opposite
>> phase as the necessary complementary part of the first. Thus the attempt
>> of
>> self-conscious thought to isolate anything resulted in the immediate
>> initiation of a sort of flow in the very essence of consciousness itself,
>> so that the nascent isolation was transformed into its opposite as
>> co-partner in a timeless reality....It seemed to be the real underlying
>> fact of all consciousness of all creatures." [Experience and Philosophy,
>> p.286]
>
> Thanks for the quote. I wrote the following poem in 1990 to my daughter
> who was dying of brain cancer. If I understand what Merrell-Wolff says, my
> poem reflects his view, at least partially. I wonder if you agree.
>
> Black is true
> So is white
> Dark is true
> So is light
> Each alike
> Each apart
> Yet both are one
> At nature's heart.
>
> Straight is true
> So is round
> Silence is true
> So is sound
> Each is different
> Each a pole
> Yet both are one
> In existence whole.
>
> Reality to us
> Seems to be split
> Black and white
> Distinct parts of it
> But black could not be
> Without white there, too
> Both are one
> In the broader view.
>
> You and I
> Are like these poles
> Two things apart
> With separate souls
> Each unique
> Each a face
> Yet both one
> In timeless space.
>
> The world we see
> Divided and split
> Is an illusion we need
> To survive a bit
> Each is born
> Each will die
> Yet both are one
> In reality high.
>
> The real we see
> Is not the real
> Though joy and pain
> Is what we feel
> Trapped to ground
> We look above
> And know the truth
> Through faith and love.
>
> We are one then
> You and I
> Faith and love
> Are binds that tie
> And in my life
> Where'er I go
> You'll be there too
> In the essence flow.
>
> The touch of eye
> The lilt of smile
> Have joined us now
> And for all the while
> So when we part
> And life seems done
> Down deep you'll know
> That we are one.
>
> Platt
>
>
>
> MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
> Mail Archives:
> Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
> Nov '02 Onward -
> http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
> MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
>
> To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
> http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
>
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archives:
Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Mon Jan 31 2005 - 12:39:50 GMT