Hi Kilian
You Wrote> (and Lithien reminded me thanks)
>>What the MOQ contends is that there is another portion of reality that can
be thought about -- the static level. And within that part, the intellect
is King. Had Pirsig not made that distinction, he would have failed to
convince that his MOQ was a better map of reality than a SOM, or anything
else. I feel this *is* a bridge between Eastern (or at least zen) thought
and the Western mindset with its dependence on and reverence for
logical/intellectual thought.
Indeed. That reverence amount to virtual WORSHIP of intellect as a the
supreme achievement of the human mind.
>>Personally, I think this is why the MOQ has so much value: because it
discusses or maps out, or what have you, the two (Fintan may appreciate the
symbolism of two) perhaps fundamental divisions of reality: that which we
can define and that which we cannot. The Dynamic and the Static. The
Intellect and the Experience.
So why can some not see the validity of pre-intellectual experience?
"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of them all"
The mirror.....that's why.
The most imprisoning psychological defense mechanism in humans !
The mirror comes AFTER the Zombie.
Only thing is......I am not happy with the word Zombie
It smacks too much of automatism.
Indeed I would go further and say that it is on the conscious side of the
brain that the word Zombie would best be applied.
The instinctual author of our actions is AWARE and is connected to the
Collective Un-conscious. Once again, I would prefer to call this the
collective pre-Conscious and Con-conscious.
Finally,
Freud is to Jung as
Intelllect is to Experience !
Jung even sounds like "Young" and that is synchronistic in itself, for Jesus
said "Unless you become as children, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven"
A warning from THAT great psychologist to avoid Static Intellectual
Ridgidity and cleave to Experience- as children do!
Kilian>
>That was my two cents,
And a very well spent two cents too! Thanks
love
Fintan Mary Dunne
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