[MD] New Model Army, Mystic(DQ) Experience, and Religion (SQ) as Power

[Arlo J. Bensinger]

Greetings Ant,

[You wrote quoting Einstein]
"His religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the  harmony
of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority  that,
compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human  beings is an
utterly insignificant reflection."

[Arlo]
And I think the chorus of the song I mention is saying just this.

"Ch: I will bow to the earth, bow to the sea,
Bow to the love between you and me,
Bow to the sun, bow to the land
But never to a god made in the image of man"

I've also found parallel in another New Model Army song to Pirsig. In "I Love
the World", they write...

"These cities are illusions of some triumph over Nature's laws
We've seen the iron carcass rust and buildings topple into dust
And as the waters rise, it seems we cling to all the rootless things
The Christian lies, technology, while spirits scream and sing
Oh God I love the world."

This is expressed nearly exactly in ZMM.