From: MarshaV (marshalz@charter.net)
Date: Thu Nov 17 2005 - 10:49:08 GMT
Hi Matt,
I am going to add my puzzlement to this post.
It seems to me there are two realities experienced by humans. One is
a reality without interpretation, without a gap, and another reality
which is filtered through human ideas. Since the first is without
interpretation and because this list is devoted to MOQ, I'll label it
Dynamic Quality. If I were forced to further label DQ, I would call
it All, No-thing-ness or direct experience sans intellect.
I don't really understand you distinction between "pre-intellectual
experience" and "non-intellectual experience". What is your point?
The second reality would be experiences filtered through preconceived
ideas about reality. For example, I am reading the book ' The
Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped
Our World View', by Richard Tarnas. To me the subject of this book
can just as well be described as the history of Western filtered
reality. It represents the major filters (religion, science,
philosophy) through which experience has been defined. This second
type of reality falls into the category of static quality. While
such a history can tell us something (through hindsight) about past
interpretations of reality, it cannot tell us about the filters that
influence our interpretation of reality today.
Whether 'pre-intellect experience', or 'non-intellect experience',
doesn't this direct experience represent, even if it's just a
momentary experience, the Reality from which all static quality
(filters) are created and destroyed.
Where am I off the philosophical mark? Am I way out there in LaLa
(New-Age) land?
Marsha
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