[MD] mystical awareness and intellectual explantions

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Hi Marsha
First of all sorry for the "Islam ..." letter which was for a local 
newspaper. How it ended up at the MD? Hope nobody 
understands Norwegian, particularly Khaled.  

12 Mar. you wrote:

> You've stated "reality is language".  You don't see "reality as
> experience"?

"Reality as experience?" I think that's a tenet of empiricism. The 
MOQ basic postulate is 

    Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to 
    intellectual abstractions.  (LILA p 42)

Maybe you have this in mind?

    It (Logical positivism) is an outgrowth of empiricism, the 
    idea that all knowledge must come from experience, and 
    is suspicious of any thought, even a scientific statement, 
    that is incapable of being reduced to direct observation. 
    (LILA 43)  
 
Anyway as said I immediately recognized my "language = reality" 
relationship with Pirsig's "quality = reality"  and had no problems 
giving it up in favor of the latter. Value so to say is the mother of 
them all. After all Pirsig had a similar feeling when HE met with 
Poincarè's "Everything is Harmony". From that he ought to have 
seen that it is the Dynamic/Static division of the ineffable 
something that counts not the entity itself.        

Bo