Re: MD Pirsig Recommended Website

From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 02:16:41 BST

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    Have you noticed any particular
    searching for truth on the part of
    the porcelain fixtures in your
    general vicinity? ...... ;-)

    thanks--mel

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    From: "MarshaV" <marshalz@i-2000.com>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 3:40 AM
    Subject: RE: MD Pirsig Recommended Website

    >
    > After my husband died in 1996 of Melanoma, I decided to seek to live a
    more
    > authentic life.
    >
    > In 1999 I did shrooms five times. My plan was to trip 9 (magical number)
    > times, but my ego popped up and I stopped after my fifth trip. I had
    never
    > done anything stronger than smoke a little marihuana in the 70s. For all
    > but the first time, I took them by myself. I took them because of ZMM,
    and
    > other books, that suggested that people have been forever using drugs to
    > seek a truer "truth". I started each session listening to a taped
    > meditation that moves through the chakras.
    >
    > My truer "truth" was to experience myself connected to everything through
    > the beating of my heart (5th chakra). It was a very beautiful
    > experience. Generally, the experiences were not as wild as I had
    expected.
    >
    > What I meant by "my ego popped up" was that I later heard myself telling a
    > younger friend that it was okay for me to do mushrooms because I was doing
    > them for the "right" reason, while he was doing drugs for fun. (I can be
    > such a pompous idiot! ) I tossed the last four portions down the
    toilette.
    >
    > That was my experience. Now I'm perfectly happy tripping through a
    > computer experiment in a Fantastic Philosophy or reading the wonderful
    > chatter on the MOQ website. And of course, painting.
    >
    > MarshaV
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