[MD] mystical awareness and intellectual explantions

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Kevin Perez <kjp_on_moq at yahoo.com>:

> Hello Platt,
>  
> > I don't think there's anything "mystical" in seeking the "highest quality
> > explanation." If you know what beauty is you know what Pirsig is talking
> about.
>  
> I would say the experience of beauty is a mystical experience.


Hello Kevin,

If by mystical you mean non-symbolic and "independent of and prior to intellectual
abstractions" (Lila, 5) I agree. I would also characterize instinct, insight and
intuition as "mystical" for the same reasons. To many people, however, "mystical"
means something strange and out-of-this world, experienced only to Buddhist monks
after years of isolation and meditation in Tibetan monasteries. My mistake in 
thinking that was what you meant.  

Platt






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