[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[John Carl]

Marsha, Marsha Marsha:


> > Marsha to Arlo:
>



> My fundamental
> point is that the fourth level consists of intellectual static patterns of
> value as
> reified concepts and the rules for their rational manipulation.
>  Intellectual
> patterns create false boundaries, giving the illusion of independence, or
> 'thingness'. The fourth level is a formalized subject/object (SOM) level
> where the subjective is supposedly stripped from the experience.
>
>
>
 What about Art?  What about Music?  What about dancing and dreaming and all
the human things we do and think and feel that are not rational, are not
intellectual at all, but make up the best part of who we are and who we want
to be?


What about painting, Marsha?

What about a painting my daughter did, which still hangs in the door of my
bedroom, and speaks to me of so much, so much important and wondrous things
that have nothing to do with words or division or any of that intellectual
defining that comes in and tries to capture the spirit of what is real in
its wordy definitioning?

What about that Marsha?

It's not your fault.  The fourth level should never have been labeled "the
intellectual" as if that certain system of knowing, that smug objectivism
that was thoroughly thrashed in ZAMM comes roaring back as the apex of all
being, top dog of the hierarchical pile.

balderdash.  Bad labeling is all.  The 4th level is not "intellectual" its
"aesthetic".

And it's certainly NOT SOM.  What a travesty that would be.  Knock it off
immediately.

Lovingly all the same,

John