[MD] MOQ: Treatment of Opposites

[markhsmit]

Hi Ham,
Thanks for the details.  The ontology certainly does have its positives.
I wouldn't call my search a mind altering shortcut, as that would imply
a physical basis to the mind.  What I have learned is that there is no
such physical basis to it, in a similar way to your Essence.  It is not 
part of sensory information, and is beyond subjective awareness.  A 
careful study of Buddhism and Dzogchen will explain how this works
(I certainly do not have that capability, although I do understand it).

It is not a state of the brain.  If it were, philosophy would be of no
use, as you state.  So, I can not surrender to that which you consider
to be inevitable (through logic, I might add).  I do have glimpses of
another way, which is magnificent and incredibly foreign at the same
time.  To each his own.

Rest easy,

Willblake2

On Aug 30, 2009, at 11:39:25 PM, "Ham Priday" <hampday1 at verizon.net> wrote:
I see you're still looking for a mystical (mind-altering) shortcut to 
Essence which, as I noted before, is highly improbable. I say this because 
the biological organism on which you depend for sensory information is 
simply not capable of transcending its finite nature, and because subjective 
awareness is a negated "other" which cannot co-exist with its not-other 
source. The only link we have to Essence is its Value, and we can only 
sense Value as an "external agent", not "become" it. But acknowledging your 
longing for the source from which you are estranged is a seminal step in 
developing a personal philosophy.

I'm afraid you'll have to satisfy that longing conceptually, with a 
metaphysical paradigm intuitively constructed that makes sense and has 
meaning for you. Indeed, this is the role philosophy has always played in 
human understanding.