mythos - preintellectual
SA P.S. Anybody ever see Akira. Precognition was mentioned in this anime and was a big part of what happened in the story. --- On Sun, 6/15/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [MD] Code of Art > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 1:28 PM > Hi Marsha, > You may be interested in the following from Mon May 24 > 1999: > > Mr. Pirsig writes, > > > ?????"Making people laugh sympathetically about other > people's disabilities > is an enormous accomplishment. > ?????The fact that you are doing so well at it indicates > that the phenomena > that you experienced back in your 'insane' days may > have been a kind of an > enlightenment as well as an insanity. The two tend to > overlap. > ?????...Prior to enlightenment there is often a huge > opening of the mind to > the 'mythos' which in this case means more than > just legends. It means the > main stream, the whole body of every idea that ever existed > or can exist > which each culture selects from, calling its own selection > 'reality.' At > this time there is an abandonment of normal channels of > cultural selectivity > over thought. The selection goes sort of crazy and you can > think of any damn > thing and think it is real and in a sense it is. When you > start wandering in > this mythos all rules are off and so you can pick up on > strange things. I > think your mind wanderings about me and the ideas in ZMM > and Lila probably > had less to do with me personally than with this > phenomenon. > ?????...Just before entering the University of Chicago... I > experienced a > similar pickup on the film 'Orpheus' by Jean > Cocteau. I lived inside that > film and it had the same sort of effect on me that my book > seems to have had > on you. > ?????...I'm certainly proud that ZMM has had a similar > function for you and > that you are a part of the crowd of people working to > diminish the misery of > the world rather than add to it or just ignore it. As > I'm sure you know, > it's not as easy as it may look." > > http://www.moqtalk.org/archivedata/moq_discuss/1998%20-%202002/9905/0117.html > > Thu May 27 1999: > http://www.moqtalk.org/archivedata/moq_discuss/1998%20-%202002/9905/0161.html > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
