[MD] Good Mystic, Bad Mystic.

[MarshaV]

Hi Mark,

I am not insisting, nor even suggesting, that you, or David, adopt my position, but I find holding patterns as hypothetical is conducive to an open, inquiring mind.


Marsha
 


On Aug 21, 2012, at 9:54 AM, 118 <ununoctiums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Marsha,
> I am glad you find freedom in uncertainty.  "Holding patterns as
> hypothetical" AS hypothetical, suggests that you can move away from
> that form of understanding.  The way to move away would be to NOT hold
> patterns as hypothetical.  However, there is an alternative as
> presented in my second paragraph.  At the root of your statement is
> the indication that a degree of uncertainty is necessary to progress.
> However, even uncertainty would become hypothetical bringing in the
> possibility of certainty.  While this idea may seem like a paradox
> (which it is), it can be very revealing upon contemplation.
> 
> By questioning the very basis of your knowledge, you imply that there
> is the "non-hypothetical".  This would follow since "the hypothetical"
> suggests that there is the "non-hypothetical" (in order for the terms
> "hypothetical" to mean something).  Where you then find yourself is
> interesting and can become a basis for an appreciation of existence.
> By your technique, one can turn away from the idea of coming in
> contact with such "non-hypothetical", and turn instead to the
> "creative notion" of existence.  This would entail surmising that
> there is no "non-hypothetical" and instead the appreciation of
> existence as creative.  When we create a painting, it replaces the
> "nothing" that was once there.  The same can be said for each moment
> of existence.  Quality "seeps through" in every instant resulting in
> an entirely "new thing" at each moment.
> 
> Pondering on existence in this fashion can also bring about great
> freedom.  It also places a degree of personal responsibility on what
> one creates at every moment.  Since most of one's existence is without
> forethought, one then can "realize" that one is"tapping into" a much
> deeper region of one's ability.  This region can be denoted as DQ.
> That we "realize things does not mean that we come in contact with
> something that we have found, but that we have created it.  This would
> bring in the idealist notion of "the world as idea".
> 
> Hope this makes sense, but probably not.  At least I tried.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
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