Hi Peter

Sounds about right to me.

David M


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Corteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: [MD] Knowledge as MOQ's intellect


> Hi Gav,
>
> I liked your post.
> I think man began his still unfolding journey through the SOM when merely
> social living proved inadequate to fulfill all his needs; he had problems 
> to
> solve and so he learned to think better. Gradually he learnt to think 
> about
> thinking. For all the greed and ego that comes out of the SOL way of 
> thought
> nevertheless we are still reaping the benefits and there is still much 
> more
> mileage for mankind in SOL.
> We are beginning to see the limitations though and increasingly man
> recognises the need to consider the effects of his inventions in the 
> larger
> system. SOL dreamt up systems thinking and MoQ, but MoQ is not merely a 
> new
> way of thinking, it necessarily involves awareness that the mind has a 
> body
> and the body has an environment.
>
> Jaynes pointed to the origins of the idea of God and that germ of an idea
> back some thousands of years eventually ripened into SOM.
> I don't think there is an end to knowledge and the utility of SOL, just 
> that
> we need to see it's limitations and be more aware of some of it's negative
> consequences.
>
> -Peter
>
>
> On 17/12/2007, gav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> i think that the subject-object split underlies the
>> intellectual level.
>>
>> i think julian jaynes and bo would agree.
>>
>> the intellectual level is that level where the
>> individual is born - the individual is a subject, the
>> subject split from the world of objects. the problem
>> with SOM is that this split was presumed to be the
>> whole nature of reality, rather than a tool with which
>> to analogise it.
>>
>> the split is crucial. 'the fall' is this split. this
>> myth is about man's fall from paradisical unity
>> because he sought: THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE. result:
>> eviction. result: the journey of the self begins.
>>
>> the myth of the fall has to be seen from both
>> directions: yes it is a bummer to lose oneness with
>> all, with god, but it is necessary if we are to become
>> gods ourselves, which is the point of human evolution.
>>
>> the intellect is a powerful tool facilitates this
>> spiritual growth. it leads first into separation - the
>> split - as the child (after age 7 i believe) becomes
>> individuated. from here the ego begins to assume
>> control.
>>
>> after the child has become a fully individuated adult
>> the intellect begins to lead him back to unity, to a
>> resolution of the split. to a diminution of the ego.
>> the MOQ is a great example of the intellect doing
>> this.
>>
>> intellect points the way - takes us the the point of
>> departure....and the beginning of wholeness, unity
>> once more, but this time *conscious* of our own
>> godhood, our identity with the cosmos.
>>
>> so bo is right, the subject/object split is
>> inseparable from the intellectual level. it gave rise
>> to it. even when we are thinking in MOQ terms we are
>> still subjects thinking in terms of objects. the
>> crucial difference is that *we are now aware of this*.
>>
>> this awareness means that the we can forget about
>> reaching absolute truth....no one is absolutely right
>> or wrong...no idea is absolutely right or wrong. we
>> are always in the realm of relativity,
>> context-dependence at the intellectual level. the
>> absolute is *experienced* pre-intellectually;  it is
>> unequivocal.
>>
>> the intellect is the key that opens the door to the
>> experience of one's own godhood or buddha nature.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Dan Glover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:20:51 -0500
>> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > > Subject: Re: [MD] Knowledge as MOQ's intellect
>> > >
>> > > At 03:15 PM 12/16/2007, you wrote:
>> > >
>> > >>Hello everyone
>> > >>
>> > >>> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:41:11 -0500
>> > >>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > >>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > >>> Subject: Re: [MD] Knowledge as MOQ's intellect
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Dan,
>> > >>>
>> > >>> What do you think of making the Intellectual
>> > Level subject/object
>> > >>> only, and creating a MOQ level above?
>> > >>
>> > >>Hi Marsha
>> > >>It doesn't jibe with the way I understand the MOQ.
>> > Like the SOM, the
>> > >>MOQ is a theory, an idea, a static quality
>> > intellectual pattern of
>> > >>value. That seems pretty simple. I see no reason
>> > to posit any
>> > >>further levels. It only complicates matters.
>> > >>
>> > >>Thank you,
>> > >>
>> > >>Dan
>> > >
>> > > Thanks Dan,
>> > >
>> > > That's the way I see it too. Maybe if Bo's problem
>> > can be better
>> > > understood, a better way to address it will
>> > surface.
>> >
>> > Hi Marsha
>> > I notice that I often become manic about certain
>> > ideas and worry them like an old dog worries a bone
>> > but I tend to grow tired after a while and like the
>> > old dog let go. I admire Bo's tenacity but have
>> > nothing more to add that would serve to change his
>> > mind. He's been gnawing this bone for nigh on 10
>> > years now and I am still not sure who he hopes to
>> > convince save himself or what difference said
>> > convincing will make. His jaw has got to be tired
>> > though.
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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