From: Matt poot (mattpoot@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 11 2004 - 06:33:01 GMT
Hello,
I have not posted in a long time. hope this helps.
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"Is it agreeable?" somebody asked. (During this point in the experiment, all
conversations were recorded on a dictating machine, and it has been possible
for me to refresh my memory of what was said.)
'Neither agreeable nor disagreeable,' I answered, 'It just is.'
Istigkeit - wasn't that the word Meister Eckhart liked to use? 'Is-ness.'
The Being of Platonic philosophy -- except that plato sems to have made the
enormous , the grotesque mistake of separating Being from becoming, and
identifying it with the mathematical abstraction of the idea. He could
never, poor fellow, have seen a bunch of flowers shining with their own
inner light and all but quivering under the pressure of the significance
with which they were charged; could never have perceived that what rose and
iris and carnation so intensely signified was nothing more, and nothing
less, than what they were -- a transcience that was yet eternal life, a
perpetual perishing that was at the same time pure Being, a bundle of
minute, unique particulars in which, by some unspeakable and yet
self-evident paradox, was to be seen the divine source of all existence.
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This is a quote, from The Doors of Perception, an essay written by Aldous
Huxley, on his experience with the pharmaceutical drug Mescalin, which is
the synthetic version of the active ingredient in Peyotl (Peyote).
If you watch for one particular sentence, perhaps it will strike a note with
you, as it did with me. This note, is in some sort of harmonic resonance
with a part of the theories we have come to know, with the help of Robert M.
Pirsig.
Poot
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