[MD] 4 Mark - corrected.

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Hi Joe,
Thank you for your post.

In my opinion, the metaphysical art encompasses the formation of patterns
describing the nature of being.  As such, it is a static representation of
such being.  Writing such can be erudite or simple.  In this forum, we are
participating in this pattern formation.  I welcome your contributions.

The spiritual art refers to the ability to accept without patterns.  As
such, it complements the metaphysical art in our awareness of the nature of
being.

To use the iceberg analogy, we can consider metaphysical presentations to
be that which lies visible above the water, and the spiritual to be that
which lies beneath the water.  Both of these represent existence, and are
the sum total of the iceberg.

In today's world, there is a tendency to perseverate over that part of the
iceberg which we can see (form patterns of).  This is at the expense of the
vast majority of the iceberg which remains hidden.  We could consider
Western thought to be "top heavy".

The term "spiritual rationality" is intended to bring both the spiritual
and the rational together.  To construct such a concept we have what appear
to be conflicting terms since the spiritual should not be rational and the
rational should not be spiritual.  This term represents the iceberg in its
entirety, and requires the iceberg be considered as a whole.

The art of spiritual rationality cannot be analyzed through either rational
or spiritual means, but represents the synthesis of both.

>From the iceberg's patterned presence (above) we can extrapolate to what
lies below, and present such a thing in rational terms (as above, so
below).  From what is presumed to lie beneath we can extrapolate to what
lies above (as below so above).  This is the alchemical tradition, which
represents a synthesis in a spiritual rational manner.

Of interest is that boundary which separates the two, (or the water level
in the analogy of the iceberg).  It is this demarkation which separates DQ
from SQ, and I believe is worthy of further examination (pattern
formation).  Through writings on this subject, MOQ can be better delivered
to the public in a common sense way.  It relates to the formation of
knowledge from the unknown.  If we presume that such a relationship exists,
then we can begin to form a metaphysics for its occurrence.

Metaphysical reality follows an observable form, and it also follows an
"unobservable form".

Regards,
Mark

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Joseph Maurer <jhmau at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi Marsha and All,
>
> At 80 I am not trying to write a metaphysics.  I observe a musical scale
> and
> a color spectrum.  I am content that metaphysical reality follows an
> observable form.
>
>
> On 9/12/12 4:05 PM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi Joe,
> >
> > Yes, there is morally categorizing the static (patterned) value into a
> > four-level, evolutionary, hierarchical structure:  inorganic, biological,
> > social and intellectual, but I thought, in a philosophical discussion,
> you
> > often preferred  do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti.
> >
> >
> > Marsha
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Joseph  Maurer <jhmau at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Marsha and all,
> >>
> >> In a philosophical discussion I do not like the word "hypothetical"
> applied
> >> to patterns in an environment where evolution has been suggested.  I
> like
> >> evolution as levels in existence.
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> >>
> >> On 9/12/12 9:19 AM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I prefer to think of patterns as hypothetical (supposed but not
> necessarily
> >>> real or true.)   Once one accepts the MoQ's fundamental principal that
> the
> >>> world is nothing but Value, then 'expanded rationality' occurs when an
> >>> individual transforms the natural tendency to reify self and world
> into the
> >>> natural tendency to hold all static patterns of value to be
> hypothetical
> >>> (supposed but not necessarily real or true.)
> >>
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