From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 03 2003 - 21:12:19 BST
Hi David (MB)
> dmb says:
> I didn't get your DQ/sq=S/O thing. Didn't seem to add up. But we agree here.
> There's a world of difference between original participation and final
> participation. (Barfield's terms, I think.) Wilber takes the idea even
> further and depicts the whole evolutionary process as one of splitting away
> in order to grow and then returning to the whole. Differentiation and
> Re-integration are the terms he uses for it. Think of Pirisg's complaint
> about SOM in this light. Specifically, the idea that SOM intellect beieves
> it stands alone and was born without parents, is a product of biological
> man, an epiphenomenon of the brain and all that. As Wilber explains it, this
> is a case where differentiation has gone too far and intellect has been
> dis-associated with its ground of being. In this case, re-integration is
> more desperately needed and is more difficult. I think this only adds to
> Pirsig's descriptions of the current crisis.
Does Wilber use the phrase 'ground of being?' Is he using it in the sense that Tillich uses it - is
that where he got it from? Might lead to an interesting conversation if he is....
Sam
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