[MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi, Steven Peterson -

> I see it it emotions play the role on the biological level that carbon 
> plays on the inorganic level and language plays on the social level in 
> being that pattern that offers the versatility and stability needed for 
> the next level to evolve.

There's a very interesting worldview in a strange man named Melvin Gorham's 
book "The Pagan Bible" from the early 1960s. The basic idea is a pantheistic 
conception where the world arose out of God's progressive self-limitation - 
creating a series of "disciplines" in Gorham's lingo. When I was looking 
into Gorham some years ago I saw some likenesses to Bob, Watts, and 
Korzybski.

I take it the book is out of copyright - here's the text: 
http://www.nyx.net/~wboas/pagan.txt

By the way, Gorham seems to have had a dark side - my out of date webpage on 
him goes into some of it - http://marymaclane.com/gorham/ - seems to have 
been some overlaps, unfortunately, with the anti-Semitic and homophobic 
idiocies.


MRB
http://www.fuguewriter.com