Hi Carl, There are senses outside the 5 senses, but they are not as obvious, and are not direct chemical, pressure, or light based. Quality can explain them all. I will agree with you on the overload. Sometimes it seems to me that every bit of knowledge only takes one farther away from that source of knowledge. The sq overpowering the DQ. This is why I state that there is a need for a rebalance. Unfortunately, many philosophers have forgotten that and are so removed from reality that they make a bad name for us armchair thinkers.
One cannot live in DQ alone, and the same goes for sq. This is why I claim that it is not analogies all the way down. There is no "down" to analogies, since they only create things "up". Even if we are looking at the nature of matter, we are creating things "up" and not "down". Knowledge is like a house. We never speak of building "down" a house, unless we owe more than it is worth :-). We never try to analyze how it is that the house can sit on the ground. All we do is build a house, and a very fine house it is for the most part. Just stay away from the basement. All sorts of pipes, electrical stuff, rats, gators, and cobwebs down there. Not to mention the "surgery chamber" that was put in by the previous owner, right beneath that trap door... I love to get away from it all, it helps me recharge. Just me and my thoughts, like the days of man of old. We have forgotten so much that often it seems that we are going farther and farther into a labyrinth and forgetting why we started the maze to begin with. Once should always balance incoming information with the time needed to process it. Elsewise we live just on the surface, and are subject to the waves that exist there. I go scuba diving when I can, and it is great. I am also training to be a pilot. There are plenty of places to escape to that are exciting and direct. I love to arrive in a foreign country with no plans what-so-ever. Building one's parachute as one is free-falling from the airplane, if you will. Cheers, Mark On 2/23/12, Carl Thames <[email protected]> wrote: > Mark: >> I also have an additional sense to give you. I call it "proprioception". >> It is much more than that which dancers expound on. What I am referring >> to is that sense we all have not only in terms of our bodies, but in >> placing ourselves in the immediate environment and in this existence as a >> whole. It turns out that people who lose this sense through accident or >> disease do not survive for long. Extreme mindfulness gives one an idea of >> >> such loss. While it can be liberating, it is deadly in terms of survival. >> >> I can present some physical terms in how this sense works, but a simple >> introduction on our sensing of electromagnetic forces would suffice. A >> great uncle of mine researched this in the early 1900s, but modern day >> research is limited these days, and some is in the area of the paranormal, >> >> which is unfortunate. The principles of this sensing are somewhat >> included in Tesla's theories. A fascinating man who is still ahead of our >> >> times. > > Carl: > I think I know what you're talking about. That extra sense you're talking > about is why Native Americans didn't cut their hair. With it, they could > 'sense' the world around them better than without. Subtle currents? Air > movement? Who knows. The other part was being IN nature, all the time. > There's a tribe in the Amazon that can tell where an animal urinated from 40 > yards, tell you what kind of animal it was, and how long ago it had been > there. Makes you wonder what it would be like to have senses like that, > doesn't it? I wonder if we could handle it. I think a lot of the problems > we have in our society is from sensory overload. It's been proven that when > a computer gets too much information too fast, it slows down. The human > brain doesn't. When it gets too much information too fast, it stops. It > reminds me of a couple that I met while in San Antonio. They lived 200 > yards south of the treeline in Alaska. They got their mail through > Bettlesfield, AK if you want to look it up, but they said it was a day trip > to get there. Anyway, when they came back to the continental U.S. after > being up there for several years, they became physically ill after ariving > in Los Angeles. They ended up in an emergency room, barfing and feeling > like warmed-over dog feces, (his words). The doctor finally figured out > that they were being overloaded. They just weren't used to the lights and > noise. Interesting stuff. > > Carl > > 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
