Marsha had written:
In mindful awareness one drops the narration (language) function for a more
perceptual (immediate) experience, but there is still pattern identification in
differentiating shapes, smells, sounds, tastes and touch. The differentiating
is there with perceiving too. Sans language. Undifferentiated, unpatterned
Dynamic Quality is not this. My experience trumps the explanation.
dmb:
Marsha's self-congratulatory assertions about her private zone-out sessions,
which she uses as a trump card over rationality, violate the letter and the
spirit of Pirsig's explanations.
Marsha:
Please remember:
The purpose of mystic meditation is not to remove oneself from experience but
to bring one's self closer to it by eliminating stale, confusing, static,
intellectual attachments of the past. "
(LILA, Chapter 9)
“Introspective observation is what we have to rely on first and foremost and
always... I regard the belief [in introspection] as the most fundamental of all
the postulates of Psychology”
(W. James, 1890)
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who
looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes”
(C.G. Jung)
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