[MD] The Hero's journey

[Joseph Maurer]

Hi Matt and all,

There may be a method to my madness!  "Whim" follows a direction.  Evolution
embodies direction.  Evolution is understood in markers along the way.  A
question for MOQ metaphysics is how can an indefinable be a marker?  I know
the indefinable and it gives me a sense of direction if I acknowledge the
direction to which it is pointing.  Evolution does the pointing, but
conceptualizing and following evolution turns me inside out when I look to
where I am to determine who I am.  Logic follows markers to evolution.

Joe
 
  


On 10/20/11 3:03 PM, "Matt Kundert" <pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> This way of stating the the hero's journey, as one into oneself, I think
> more effectively let's us see the real problem with seeing a divorce
> from the heroic quest for Dynamic Quality in the Spirit Realm and
> "the standpoint of normal waking consciousness": it's the problem of
> cigarettes burning down into your knuckles.  Pirsig could quite have
> replied that he was in quest of something more important than the
> ephemera of friends, family, and jobs.  And he would've been right.
> It is more important, or rather _bigger_, in some sense, and it gives
> sense to the notion of _sacrifice_ that comes along with the hero's
> job.  But the rhetoric of heroism--which Pirsig's scene quite
> effectively deflates--is best theorized by Emerson, who called for the
> Oversoul, yet at the same time remarked darkly, "I shun father and
> mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me.  I would
> write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim.  I hope it is somewhat
> better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in
> explanation."  "Whim" was Emerson's word for the indeterminacy of
> DQ/degeneracy.