From: Scott R (jse885@spinn.net)
Date: Wed Oct 01 2003 - 03:47:11 BST
Platt,
> Intellect (thinking) is not a response to DQ. Thinking is the
> patterning of pure experience (Quality) into static symbolic forms.
> What responds to DQ is not intellect but a vague sense of something
> better. One's initial reaction to great art (or getting off a hot
> stove) isn't intellectual. It's immediate, involuntary, instinctive,
> intuitive, visceral, spontaneous. Thinking about experience is
> secondary. Thinking about thinking is even further removed from DQ.
????. Apparently, the fourth and highest level of SQ is the furthest removed
from DQ. Something's backwards.
You did not respond to my analysis of the hot stove example. Apparently you
think that it is the " immediate, involuntary, instinctive, intuitive,
visceral, spontaneous" that is response to DQ. I see these (except perhaps
"intuitive") as all static responses. The Dynamic is found when one can
overcome these reflexes, when one is supremely mindful -- that is, operating
on the intellectual level. What you seem to value sounds very New Age-y to
me.
As I said to Paul, why don't we all get lobotomies? True, we couldn't create
great art, but it seems we would be much closer to DQ, by adopting this
outlook.
- Scott
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