[MD] a view

[MarshaV]

This is how I understand the Intellectual (SOM) Level.  From 
the SOM perspective, there is the unknown and the known.  
The known uses language as its primary tool.  Language has been 
built hand-in-hand with human understanding of reality, they have 
evolved together, and they reflect reality as subjects and objects, 
our language and subject-object metaphysics are interrelated.  
(In the Social Level, this s-o understanding is unconscious.)   
In the Intellectual Level the subject-object split is conscious, 
and has undergone a dissection to strip the ‘subjective’ from 
influencing our search for the external Truth in Nature.  The 
Intellectual Level represents a formal Subject-Object 
Metaphysics, SOM, and is interconnected with the language 
we use to organize concepts and assign meaning.  This 
is accomplished by giving concepts artificial boundaries 
and imaginary independence. 

From the MoQ perspective, Reality = Quality(DQ(unpatterned 
experience)/sq(patterned experience(inorganic, biological, social, 
intellectual & code of art))).  Every pattern contained within every 
level, including intellectual static patterns of value, is represented 
in that ‘sq’.   Patterns are provisional, interrelated, ever-changing, 
and impermanent.  They are different from event to event because 
each event is dependent on an individual’s pattern life history and 
the dynamic context of the event.  Within the MoQ, the Intellectual 
(SOM) Level becomes a set of tools that may be useful for solving 
a certain type of problem.  Until a mode of communication evolves 
to represent this emerging monistic metaphysics (the MoQ), 
definitions, meanings and explanations will misrepresent reality.

You might at this point suggest that the Eastern point-of-view has 
developed a reality that reflects the MoQ, and it was developed 
many centuries ago.  I might agree that there are Eastern philosophies 
that are monistic.  But I’d remind you that enlightenment is considered 
an awakening, an awakening from the wrong understanding of reality.  
That wrong understanding of reality is the dualistic, self-other, or 
subject-object, point-of-view which inspires desire and fear, and 
causes suffering.  Buddhism has created an complete system of 
practice to assist the individual to move from ignorance to clarity.   
This clarity is not the norm for most. 

 I suppose I might add that my understanding is more stable then
ever before, but it is still always subject to change.
 
 
 Marsha
 
 
 


 
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