--- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > Thanks Rory. It sounds like we are both in the same boat then. Whatever > level of expanded experience you have is fraught with the same cognitive > limitations of the rest of us. So we both do the best we can with the > equipment we have.
* * Yes, Curtis! But as far as I can tell, I have no "expanded experience" -- whatever that may mean. (If I did, I would be guilty of creating and then believing in said experience.) If anything, I just appreciate (and participate in, and flow with) the minutiae that have always been here, more than I generally used to think I did. > You seem to have avoided the epistemological tar pit of believing that > compelling equals credible which I myself try to look out for. I respect that > The un-awakened are just as prone to that fallacy. * * More so, from what I recall anyway. Awakening simply showed me how my intellect actually operates, and that (like beliefs) it actually cannot get hold of what reality is; it evidently is -- we are -- a priori and hence too subtle or too "slippery" for any of that. So I cannot really fool myself with intellectual certainty or beliefs of any kind any more, for very long anyhow. Always, the opposite of whatever I am asserting also arises to make me an instant liar, even now! :-) > I am very excited about increasing my knowledge of what they are discovering > about how our mind works through the lens of neruo science. Although I am > not a complete reductionist, I figure I have to at least start there. * * Sounds reasonable. I wish you good fortune and profound satisfaction on your journey of self-discovery. Don't forget to write! > The blend of inner and outer vision as a profound experience does not just > have spiritual implications. It also is a tool for creativity for the arts. > And the line gets pretty blurred where these meet, say in Blake's work or > even Jung. Although I am pretty content to stay on the artistic side of the > fence, I am well aware that we have our picnic blankets spread out in the > same field and might be able to lob a chicken wing or corn on the cob to each > other occasionally. * * As one who has dabbled in the arts myself, I suspect our picnic blankets are close enough to at least occasionally toss delicacies back and forth with some delicacy :-)
