[MD] New Age++

[gav]

marsha, i love you!



i want to write a really long one here:
two things
--- MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> To all MOQers
> 
> >dmb opens:
> >I don't know if I could calculate the percentage of
> bullshit, but I 
> >think its safe to say that there are retailers and
> "workshop" 
> >leaders in the new age category that deserve to be
> ridiculed or even 
> >exposed as frauds.
> 
> Marsha opens:
> I don't know if I could calculate the percentage of
> bullshit, but I 
> think its safe to say that there are scholars and
> "world" leaders in 
> the intellectual category that deserve to be
> ridiculed or even 
> exposed as frauds.
> 
> I have sooo responded to your post.  I am so flooded
> with 
> frustrations, resentments and so many memories of
> experiences that I 
> don't know if I can parse them to make a coherent
> response.  The "new 
> age" label has become a term of denigration for
> those who seek 
> outside the static establishment.
> 
> There was a time in the 80's when I was studying
> Western philosophy 
> and at the same time I was a well paid IT
> professional pulling down a 
> very good salary.  I was wearing worsted wool suits
> with little ties 
> and in the cultural groove.  Problem was that I was
> having nightmares 
> that at any moment I would sprout balls.  I have
> lived many lives, 
> both inside and outside the culture, both
> intellectual and instinctual.
> 
> Is there some way to have a conversation without
> putting down those 
> who believe, and choose, to use whatever energy
> there consciousness 
> might possess to connect with something larger than
> intellect?  I 
> think the biggest myth our society has to deal with
> is the myth that 
> intellect is the pinnacle of the human evolution. 
> To me it's just 
> another tool.  Call me biological if you like, but I
> have gotten more 
> out of dancing around a fire/drum circle under the
> night sky than the 
> hours I've spent trying to solve an intellectual
> dilemma?
> 
> This over emphasis on the intellectual may be
> blindsighting our 
> culture because of its patriarchal structure.  Most
> men, not all, 
> seem to be missing the boat.  What experience might
> Pirsig gained 
> from his night in a sweatlodge?  Intellectualizing
> about myths is 
> also missing the boat.  What have you experienced???
> 
>   Marsha
> 
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