[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Platt's Individual level)

[MarshaV]

At 05:29 PM 5/29/2006, Platt wrote:

>Here it is clear that the defining aspect of the intellectual level is
>its supremacy over the next lower level. Similarly, the social level
>strives for supremacy over the biological, as does the biological over
>the inorganic.
>
>The supremacy of intellect over society exactly matches the  supremacy
>of the individual over the collective as codified in our Constitution --
>  the right of the individual to free speech, trial by jury, secret
>ballot, etc. vs. politically correct speech, vigilante law, communism,
>etc.

Platt,

How would you explain this quote from Lila, Chapter 32:

"While sustaining biological and social patterns
Kill all intellectual patterns.
Kill them completely
And then follow Dynamic Quality
And morality will be served.

Lila was still moving toward Dynamic Quality. All life does. This 
breaking up of her life's patterns looked like it was part of that movement.
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."

Marsha