[Paco]
An indicator, if not proof, is their/our ability to experience beauty
and create beauty throiugh art forms. The way of art leads to worlds
beyond reason.
[Arlo]
Yes, I continue to be astounded by the art (visual, aural, kinetic,
etc.) wo/man has created through the ages. From the earliest records
we have of such activity (cave paintings, sculptures, as well as the
legends that would eventually survive to reach us thousands of years
later) to the present-day, humanity has created a wealth of metaphor
demonstrating the human condition. I am a cynic only half the time. :-)
[Paco]
I suspect Pirsig had a mystical experience of Quality.
[Arlo]
I think he says as much very clearly. From his earlier partaking of
the peyote ceremony to the moment he narrates in ZMM, "Then Phaedrus
feels a tugging to read the passage again, and he does so and
then...what's this?! -- "That which we translate 'virtue ' but is in
Greek 'excellence. Lightning hits! Quality! Virtue! Dharma!".
[Paco]
However, these art forms, as all art forms, fail to express the whole.
[Arlo]
This is my ongoing point, and central to my criticism of "theism"
(whose particular narratives I've likened to paintings, to get across
the idea). Where WE fail as people is to recognize the limited view
resulting from privileging or making exclusive one work of art. One
can, for example, learn a great deal about the human condition from
reading Dostoevsky, but would we ever insist one limit oneself to
reading nothing else? And I am not even talking other "great
literature", such as Yoskikawa or Twain, but also the, ahem, "lesser"
forms like graphic novels (Spiegelman) or comics (Schultz or
Watterson). This is my point. "Theism" is one response to the Mythos,
painting, sculpting, dancing, illustrated novels, comics, symphonies,
drum circles and rock concerts are others.
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