From: Valuemetaphysics@aol.com
Date: Fri Oct 03 2003 - 23:59:58 BST
Hello Mark,
Thanks for that. Pirsig - Krishnamurti. I didn't know. That's just great!
I'll get those books you mentioned as soon as I finish Howard Bloom's "Global
Brain" (2000) in which he points to an "interspecies global mind" Don't miss
the last paragraph in that book. For a long time I've been sympathetic to Jung
and Campbell's collective unconscious. Then I got to thinking there must be
a collective conscious. Then along comes Bloom with his account of group
selection in the dynamics of biological and social evolution. Lots of MOQ
tie-ins.
I've been retired for two years from the schools. I decided to be
self-referred for a change and I went about rereading my graduate texts on psychotherapy
and to educate myself on the history of western philosophy. I had this
nagging itch. Is there really such a reality as an object? If the universe is
alive, aware, and responsive (as I believe it is) - what's an object? I started
with ZAMM and Lila. The Greeks came next. And, of course, I was off to the
races.
MOQ.org led me to Ken Wilber. I read his "No Boundary" which supported my
earlier readings on the philosophy and healing system of the Hawaiian shamans
(kahunas) - the discipline of Huna. I noticed Wilber borrowed many of his ideas
from Krishnamurti. (he says so in the back of his book). Someone on the MOQ
was into Howard Bloom and then I heard him speak on the radio one night.
Notice that? The interconnectivity. Of course you do, you're an MOQ'er.
My approach to education in the schools? I follow William James' advice.
Education can be approached through the concept of relatedness. James - another
guy Pirsig likes. He says so in Lila. Hmmm. Anyway, I show kids and adults
how everything is connected. Remember in ZAMM how Phaedrus asked students to
write a paper simply by examining a penny? No problem from an
interconnectivity approach.
Within the next year I'm moving back to the Philippines. I used to train and
evaluate teachers at international schools there back in the 80's. I feel at
home there. Finish writing my book, perhaps do a little consulting work in
education and pursue a doctorate. Life is good. Lots of quality these days.
May your every step be blessed.
Jim
Hello Jim,
Thanks for your response. You sound to me like an example of the tutors i had
the good fortune to experience once or twice in my education; the teacher who
takes time to wander off in all directions only to tie it up by the end in a
relevant and thought provoking unity.
This caught my eye: 'Is there really such a reality as an object? If the
universe is alive, aware, and responsive (as I believe it is) - what's an
object?'
It seems there are differentiation's but no objects - objects may be seen as
artistic creations of a differentiating process; a process which preselects on
aesthetic and harmonic grounds. In this scheme, it is pathological to insist
upon severe divisions, as that assertion is destructive and the source of
disunity and pain.
Sadly, the Western view appears to be dominated by inherent cultural
assertions of this nature?
But there are many Western thinkers who do not go down this path and this
indicates to me that we can be positive in our continuing enquiry into Quality.
The MoQ certainly helps me on a day to day level, and that is where it counts?
And i sort of have the feeling it is helping you also?
I look forward to reading your book...
All the best,
Mark
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