From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 12 2004 - 19:40:26 BST
Hi Anthony
This loss of self-awareness is important stuff.
Somehow we can become absorbed into the world
we are experiencing. This seems to me to be about
getting outside of SOM. Let's remember
that quality=experience=reality. So here we are
experiencing the world. If we do not draw any lines
between subject and object where can we say
consciousness is located? In the brain? This would
be an SOM mistake. When we hit the perfect tennis shot
we are completely at one with the elements of the world.
We know what the ball will do as soon as we hit it.
Or we see the football tackle coming and we perfectly
step out of the way. Carl Jung spoke of enjoying a beautiful
view so much that he felt he was absorbed into the landscape.
And when we simply 'see' we do not think of the view as being in our
heads, the world is 'simply there', so that we are experiencing the world
not in our heads but in the world, 'out there'. As I said
reality=experience.
So experience is therefore a coming together into a
space/clearing/consciousness
of at least Man and World but most often Man/Language/Being as Heidegger
describes it. Experience is only possible when there is a world to
experience.
What is a person? What is it to be a person? It is not to be a body, rather
it is to be the experience of 'knowing a world'. If you had a body and no
world you would be nothing like the reality that we call a human being.
Getting any Heidegger read Anthony, you should?
regards
David M
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