[MD] Food for Thought

[gav]

fucking brilliant stuff on the perennial philosophy
dave.

clear enough for high schoolers i reckon....you would
make an awesome teacher mate...at any level.

i am giving you an ethereal high five right now.

an aside: just beginning to realise (as i read
everything henry miller has ever written) how valuable
the last 10 years of this forum have been in terms of
the quality of the writing. what i am getting at is
the directness and 'write-like-you-talk' flavour of
the best writers on the list. it has been and still is
a quality writing apprenticeship.

the forum format helps develop the clear and direct
and original exposition of ideas simultaneous with the
essential anchor point: the primacy of direct
experience. this is a powerful combination and, like i
said,  it rings a lot of 'miller' bells (the author
not the bad beer).

yes i perhaps need to reinforce that last bit (not
that i haven't done so previously): THE PRIMACY OF
DIRECT EXPERIENCE. that's where the magic is; that's
why the best novels are better than any
textbook/essay; that's where the highest truths are
glimpsed most clearly, most poignantly... in full
living luminosity.

...and the MOQ is an unequivocal affirmation of all
this.

to marry the rational with the existential...to wield
the analytic scalpel under the guidance of the poetry
of lived experience....that is the craft of the master
and it is a craft mastered by very few. indeed it is
arguably the terra incognita of artistic
expression...so few are they who have ventured
here....
so few those who have tapped into this power, this
awesome power.

and why is it so powerful? because it is a mode of
expression that recognises and relies upon and reveals
the mystical source, centre, intelligence at the heart
of existence itself. it is a *living* affirmation of
the perennial philosophy. 

keep on getting better

g





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