Horse said:
... The whole point of DQ/Mysticism in the MoQ sense is that it can only be
experienced and not known. Or perhaps I've got it wrong. Anyone else agree or
disagree?
dmb says:
Right, DQ is very often described in terms of what it is NOT. It is not
intellectually knowable, not conceptual, not verbal, not differentiated or
divided. Any kind of knowledge or thought category is going to be static and
conceptual. DQ is none of those things precisely because the first moment of
awareness is prior to words, concepts and definitions. But it is experienced,
felt and lived through and is "known" in that sense.
I think the idea is that this continuing stimulus operates even when we're
engaged with words, concepts and definitions. DQ is what guides the selection
of hypothesis in science, for example. DQ is always co-operating with rational
understandings, as in the case of the motorcycle mechanic. DQ is
pre-intellectual, not anti-intellectual. Cultivating a sensitivity to this
guiding factor should not entail a rejection of words, concepts or definitions
in any way. Quite the opposite. You know, that whole lesson about Quality in
the classroom writings back in Bozeman. Once the students knew that they knew
what undefined Quality was, all the rules became a lot more interesting to
them.
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