[MD] mystical awareness and intellectual explantions

[Kevin Perez]

     [...] if Quality or excellence is seen as the ultimate reality then it
     becomes possible for more than one set of truths to exist. Then one
     doesn't seek the absolute "Truth." One seeks instead the highest
     quality intellectual explanation of things with the knowledge that if the
     past is any guide to the future this explanation must be taken
     provisionally; as useful until something better comes along.
 
Pirsig said this (Lila, p. 99) and I've heard it repeated here many times in
one form or another.
 
I see in these three sentences the reason for and the foundation of the
Metaphysics of Quality.  The bottom line appears to be the MoQ is a
practical approach to reality and that seeing excellence as the ultimate
reality leads to seeking "the highest quality intellectual explanation of
things [...] until something better comes along."  I see the MoQ as
proceeding from a kind of mystical awareness of reality but ending up
as the mere intellectualization of reality.  So because it limits its scope
(or seems to) to intellectualizing reality the MoQ contradicts itself.  I say
this because I see that an intellectual explantion of reality will never lead to
a mystical awareness of reality.  But I realize that your mileage may vary.
 
Has anyone experienced mystical awareness stemming from intellectual
explanations?
 
Thank you.
 

Kevin

 
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