From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 16:40:26 BST
Hi Johnny:
> This is what I would deny. It may seem like you've completely taken off
> static glasses and seen reality or DQ, but that's just different static
> patterns, you're experiencing things culled from a venerable static history
> of 'mystical experiences' that happens to people sometimes, especially
> after taking peyote, etc. Sure, you can shed a lot of your stuck patterns,
> and that transcendence or openness to new understanding is valuable, but it
> is only transcending to a different static understanding. One with no
> "self sense", perhaps, but still just as much self.
Someday you may have a DQ experience and then you'll know what
Pirsig is talking about. Until then, you can't legitimately deny it. You
know the story of the four blind men and the elephant?
> And not only would I deny that static glasses can ever be taken off, but I
> deny that there is anything that could even be seen without glasses.
> Static glasses (the static patterns that we personally experienced) and
> contexts aren't merely something that gets in the way and distort reality,
> I think they are what cause reality to come into being. Keep in mind that
> our glasses are just a small part of a huge set of shared primary static
> patterns and a whole lot of context, that's why we don't all create
> radically separate realities, or rather, why the separate realities that we
> do all create are in agreement most of the time.
Undeniable Fact: We all see similar realities because we were all by
reality created.
Platt
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