Hi John, I've been feeling extremely uncomfortable about having used the expression 'religious experience.' I think I will revise the expression to 'very extreme psychological experience.'
There, that feels better. Marsha On Mar 24, 2010, at 3:44 AM, MarshaV wrote: > > Hi John, > > I'm not working attached to a particular tradition so I don't have a set > pattern > of words to reference. To explain an unpatterned experience seems > impossible, > too simple for words. I love words, though, and this morning I woke up with > a > book title, more a variation, on my mind: the incredible lightness of being. > I > suppose it reflects a 'religious' experience I once had. I thought it was > just > marijuana given to me by a friend of my husband's, but it was much, much > more. I can appreciate a trinity, but in the end it falls away as not this, > not > that. > > > Marsha > > > > > > On Mar 23, 2010, at 5:00 PM, John Carl wrote: > >> See, the problem to my thinking is that in direct and immediate awareness of >> the moment, there are those three entities as experiential fundaments of my >> being. >> >> Value sensibility or awareness >> >> Other >> >> Valuation or Quality >> >> >> ANYthing else that is posited as "preconceptual" or whatever intellectual >> constructs designed to persuade of non-intellectual construction, are >> differing dreams and ideas of men, with differing utility to differing >> individuals. They can only be taken as important as their relative >> construction of meanings construe. And positing one particular idea, the >> idea of "preconceptual" as absolute seems to my thinking the least >> ultilitarian and helpful construction as I can imagine. It's basically a >> moronist view of meaning arising from randomness rather than a playful >> interaction of different players, "I", "Other" and "Valuation" >> >> ---------- > > > > ___ > > > 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/md/archives.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/md/archives.html
