Platt:
> I'm delighted you commented on my adding the category
> of artists to dmb's
> supposition that philosophers and mystics might not be
> limited by SOM. Then
> in answer to Peter's query, I listed a few artists who
> I would nominate as
> being not SOM-limited.
> You observation that neither I nor anyone can possibly know
> how any one
> else sees the world -- SOMwise or otherwise -- is quite
> right and well
> taken. What I did was name those artists who, on fleeting
> occasions,
> bridged the subject-object gap for me as I viewed, listened
> or read their
> work. Also, as an amateur painter, I've experienced
> total absorption in the
> painting process where momentarily the awareness of self
> and other has
> vanished. So I thought as a generalization that artists
> should be included
> as possible SOM transcenders.
> This is not to claim enlightenment of any kind but rather a
> recounting of
> my own transient experiences of nondual awareness and, for
> me at least,
> personal confirmation of Pirsig's ineffable DQ. For me
> these experiences
> have always been associated with beauty, and why for me
> beauty is the
> ultimate goodness.
> Thanks for the chance to elaborate on my views.
SA: a-la, code of art. Glad you brought this up. So... poetry, painting,
music, etc... democratic expressions where your able to experience and think on
your own in a way that is beautiful, unique, etc...
woods,
SA
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