Eddo, I wasn't laughing at you...  I was laughing at "accepted culture."  
 


On Jun 29, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Eddo Rats <[email protected]> wrote:

> Marsha
> 
> I realy don't know why i used the word normality, i don't even know if the
> word is commomly used in the english language. it sort of felt good to use
> it. maybe civilisation, society or accepted culture are better words
> 
> forgive me my clumsiness
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Eddo
> 
> 
> 2013/6/29 MarshaV <[email protected]>
> 
>> 
>> Greetings Eddo,
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 29, 2013, at 6:57 AM, Eddo Rats <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Marsha
>>> 
>>> in the conclusion of the sparknotes it says:
>>> Foucault sees art as a way for madness to fight back against the world.
>>> Madness is measured against a moral scale by psychiatrists and
>>> psychologists, but art asks the world disturbing questions and requires
>>> answers. The very fact that it does not support the way that society
>>> represents and treats madness calls society itself into question. Art
>>> attempts to redress the balance between madness and civilization.
>>> 
>>> This is what Pirsig did by publishing his Novels.
>>> Pirsig published the mythos that made him enlightend. But I suspect that
>> as
>>> an enlightend person he doesn't care about this mythos anymore. The
>>> published work made him a celebrity and that forces him to deal with his
>>> own Mythos over and over again.
>> 
>> Can't be easy.
>> 
>> 
>>> That's the downside of the effort of merging the mythos of a madman
>>> with the accepted mythos which is on the other hand the only path
>>> out of madness into normality again.
>> 
>> Madness?  Hmmm, "out of madness into normality"?  Normality?  Lol.
>> 
>> 
>> Marsha
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> 
>>> Eddo
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 2013/6/29 MarshaV <[email protected]>
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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
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