Hi Ham, Thanks for the details. The ontology certainly does have its positives. I wouldn't call my search a mind altering shortcut, as that would imply a physical basis to the mind. What I have learned is that there is no such physical basis to it, in a similar way to your Essence. It is not part of sensory information, and is beyond subjective awareness. A careful study of Buddhism and Dzogchen will explain how this works (I certainly do not have that capability, although I do understand it).
It is not a state of the brain. If it were, philosophy would be of no use, as you state. So, I can not surrender to that which you consider to be inevitable (through logic, I might add). I do have glimpses of another way, which is magnificent and incredibly foreign at the same time. To each his own. Rest easy, Willblake2 On Aug 30, 2009, at 11:39:25 PM, "Ham Priday" <[email protected]> wrote: I see you're still looking for a mystical (mind-altering) shortcut to Essence which, as I noted before, is highly improbable. I say this because the biological organism on which you depend for sensory information is simply not capable of transcending its finite nature, and because subjective awareness is a negated "other" which cannot co-exist with its not-other source. The only link we have to Essence is its Value, and we can only sense Value as an "external agent", not "become" it. But acknowledging your longing for the source from which you are estranged is a seminal step in developing a personal philosophy. I'm afraid you'll have to satisfy that longing conceptually, with a metaphysical paradigm intuitively constructed that makes sense and has meaning for you. Indeed, this is the role philosophy has always played in human understanding. 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/
