From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 12:44:56 GMT
Hi Dustin:
First, a warm welcome to the discussion of Pirsig's Metaphysics of
Quality. Your first post struck a responsive chord with me. It's so new
and provocative that it deserves its own thread.
> The "laying on of hands" idea is something that I have questioned myself.
> I read something recently about "primary cell perception." Primary cell
> perception is the ability of inanimate objects (primarily plants) to "feel"
> (for lack of a better word) the intentions of their environments. We have
> always heard the adage about talking to your house plants to help them
> grow. Well, there's a guy that is trying to prove it with science.
>
> My reconciliation is this- we have an antenna. Billions of wavelengths
> from billions of manifestations are sent through infinite dimensions. They
> are picked up by our antennas, and through our "receiver" brains they are
> reconstituted into what we choose to call reality.
>
> Plants, without physical receptors for joy or pain, must also have an
> antenna. The wavelengths produced by our thoughts and prayers must then be
> received by their antennas.
>
> The primary wavelength is Quality. If you are a master of Quality, or if
> your Quality receptor is specialized to such a degree that you are able to
> fine tune the receptors of others, then you are what we call a Healer.
You've put into words better than I've been able to my belief that
awareness, experience, consciousness--whatever name you want to
use for our sense of being--represents a force in the environment that
our brain (a bulb of nerve tissue) taps into, rather than something the
brain generates itself. Every body organ is designed to take advantage
of outside phenomena whether it be the stomach, lungs, eyes, legs or
sex apparatus. That the brain should be an exception strains credibility.
Now that you have identified Quality as the "primary wavelength,"
Pirsig's claim that Quality equals "experience" makes perfect sense. It
fits beautifully with your "antenna theory" which also encompasses the
notion that not only plants, but atoms too, are aware.
Thanks for your contribution. I look forward to more of your thoughts.
Platt
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