[MD] New Age++

[ian glendinning]

Marsha et al,

You said
"It's been about his journey:  it's isolation,  it's arduousness, 
it's cost, and the gift he received to bring back to his culture. Mr.
Pirsig is not a child of the Intellectual
Level.  He is a child of Dynamic Quality."

How very true.
We're all children of all the levels, intellect included (because he
wrote a book and we're exchanging e-mails, if for no other reason). An
important thing here is the same debate I'm having with Bo about
"static" intellect.

Dynamic Quality is ultimately nothing without its static latches, but
its the dynamism that adds new value. The dynamism of intellect is to
be open to alternative intellectual viewpoints and views from within
completely different worlds. We need to be careful not to paint
intellect into a static SOMist corner, but to have it evolve, with all
the value of myth and direct experience. Most of that dynamism is a
process, a journey, a dialogue, an ongoing narrative. (See Matt's
comment on the Baggini interview.)

Intellect is not static - it's dynamic - it just has some static
patterns within it - that we need to pay respect to, but not get hung
on.

Ian

On 1/17/06, MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I recently read ZMM for the umpteenth time, and I'm now reading Lila
> again.  For me Mr. Pirsig's pointing to the moon has not been about
> the MOQ.  It's been about his journey:  it's isolation,  it's
> arduousness,  it's cost, and the gift he received to bring back to
> his culture.   Mr. Pirsig is not a child of the Intellectual
> Level.  He is a child of Dynamic Quality.  What I received from
> reading of his journey was a little gumption to strike off on my own path.
>
>  Marsha
>
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