From: gav (gav_gc@yahoo.com.au)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 12:14:54 BST
hey charles,
ZAMM changed my life profoundly.
i read it for the second time at the start of my
philosophy masters and everything clicked. how do you
explain the feeling?.....a subtle but definite, if
ineffable, knowledge?? -- close maybe....'resonance'
gets close too.
after reading ZAMM that second time i became focussed
on looking for correlations: all those areas of
science and philosophy etc that my new understanding
complemented. i found them in ecology and physics;
taoism and buddhism of course; also sartre and
phenomenology and existentialism generally; the
situationists were a revelation.
but this isn't really getting to the meat of it. ZAMM
changed how i see the world and how i see myself...it
is very difficult to explain how, other than to say
that i felt the goodness and purpose of existence in
some very subtle way....'epiphany' is a little
dramatic perhaps.
I think it is fair to say that it made me feel a part
of an intellectual/spiritual elite; a 'cognoscenti' if
you like. this is always a dangerous thing - too close
to pride. but it would also be fair to say that it has
made me more open and trusting - to people and
experiences. it has made life less of a struggle for
me....to paraphrase bill hicks it has helped me to
relax and treat life like a ride rather than something
i have to direct.
LiLa...i will get to later
cheers
gav
--- Charles Vanderford <proskuneo@fastermail.com>
wrote:
---------------------------------
To all who read, this is addressed to you personally.
How has Quality affected your life? Has it changed
anything for you?
I wanted to ask everybody this question just so I
could see if someone genuinely appreciates Quality for
the sheer richness and beauty of it, for what it is in
itself. I want to know what it means to all of you,
personally, honestly, without worrying or fudging
because of what someone else may say.
Tell me one thing about you or your perception of the
world that has changed since reading ZMM and Lila,
just one.
I may be wrong, but to me the MOQ has always been a
very personal philosophy that applies not so much to
anything else more than my own life. I feel like now
that Quality has been made more clear, now that we
can’t deny its reality, can’t deny that we experience
it, this has somehow made me accountable to it. Does
anyone else share this feeling?
CV
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