From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 00:14:03 BST
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for a brilliant insight. The Quality Event divides the world: the
mystic experience (born again) makes it whole again. (I think all the
events listed fit the "whole into parts" concept.)
What most people miss I think is that mystic experience is your normal,
common everyday experience prior to thoughts. The reason most don't
recognize it as such is because we hardly ever stop having a conversation
with ourselves about ourselves, constantly splitting apart what is really
one.
Platt
> The substitutions were an attempt to see how the
> Quality concepts might apply to
> my understanding of spirituality. My interest here is
> spirituality. The quote
> I chose seemed an appropriate one because it provided
> several graphical
> perspectives on Quality and the Quality Event. I
> wrote, "[...] substituting God
> for Quality in Platt's Nov 97 post does make sense."
>
> The substitution turned Platt's description of Quality
> and the Quality Event
> into a description of spirituality and God.
>
> "[The born again experience] is the event at
> which the ultimate reality of
> the world ([God]) is transformed:
> from the one to the many
> from the sensation of self to the perception
> of other
> from chaos to pattern
> from potential to actual
> from unity to relativity
> from simultaneity to duality
> from present to past
> from primacy to derivative
> from the Big Now to the Great Divide
> from the ineffable to the expressible"
>
> The substitution works. It makes sense, to me. What
> I find interesting though
> is the way it turns the born-again experience upside
> down. After having had the
> experience the transformed person typically describes
> the before state as being
> distant from God. And the born-again experience is
> typically described as an
> event that brings people closer to God, puts things
> into proper perspective,
> makes reality seem more whole albeit no less messed up
> than before. This is
> quite the opposite of a change "from the one to the
> many[,] from simultaneity to
> duality[,] from unity to relativity[,] from primacy to
> derivative [and] from the
> Big Now to the Great Divide." However, the other
> descriptions do appear to
> describe the born-again experience; "from the
> sensation of self to the
> perception of other[,] from chaos to pattern[,] from
> potential to actual [and]
> from the ineffable to the expressible."
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