Eddo, Foucault offers a history of madness, and after reading some of the SparkNotes summary, I think I'd like to read it.
http://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/madnessandciv/context.html Marsha On Jun 28, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Eddo Rats <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marsha and Joseph > > The madman experiences an ego collapse but in an effort of his ego to > survive the ego feeds on DQ to create a new mythos where the ego is king, > jezus or napoleon or whatever........... The madman is his ego in the new > mythos and believes his new mythos. So the madman is not enlightend and > when psychiatrists, with help of medication, helps to connect his ego back > to the accepted mythos he becomes confused and depressed. Because he > intuitively understands that there must be another mythos where he is king > and that felt good. > > The enlightend person sees every mythos as an illusion and is detatched > from the desire to play a role in the mythos. > > To Joseph: > > How to explain to seperate your I-ness from your ego can only be done > rational. That's why it never works :D lol > I reasoned my way out of my ego to stop the ping-pong game of getting me > kicked from inside to outside the mythos and back again and it took me > twenty years. This was reasoning while experiencing. from this experience i > can only communicate the rational part which in it's turn form's again a > new mythos :D lol > > Kind regards > > Eddo > > > > > 2013/6/28 MarshaV <[email protected]> > >> >> Hi Eddo, >> >> Yes, there are different mythos' and an isolated Buddhist monastery would >> have there own. >> >> When Phaedrus first went to India he'd wondered why, if this passage of >> enlightenment into pure Dynamic Quality was such a universal reality, did >> it only occur in certain parts of the world and not others? At the time >> he'd thought this was proof that the whole thing was just Oriental >> religious baloney, the equivalent of a magic land called 'heaven' that >> Westerners go to if they are good and get a ticket from the priests. Now he >> saw that enlightenment is distributed in all parts of the world just as the >> color yellow is distributed in all parts of the world, but some cultures >> accept it and others screen out recognition of it." >> >> (LILA, Chapter 32) >> >> Seems to me an experience of sudden awakening in a culture that does not >> accept enlightenment or take serious talk about enlightenment would be to >> experience madness or insanity. >> >> I like what you said concerning the separation of the ego from the notion >> of I-ness. Not easy in the West where the economics is linked to the ego. >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> 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
