Subject: Re: MINDWALK - An exercise in Passionate Thought 
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Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:45:03 +0000

In article <1992Dec20.074839.12389@u.washington.edu> 
joechip@hardy.u.washington.edu writes:

>Still putting the screws to Ma Earth,
>Erich Vandenloos

Pretty Strong Stuff!! - not at all - nice to see you following the
classical line.

"Let's put Mother Nature on the rack, that she might reveal her treasures"
                                                                    Bacon

Nice to see that you have so internalised the thoughts of your masters
that you consider them your own, so imprinted on your physical being that
it legitimates your emotions.

	Woe! Woe!
	Thou hast it destroyed,
	The beautiful world,
	With powerful fist:
	In ruin 't is hurled,
	By the blow of a demigod shattered!
	The scattered
	Fragments into the void we carry,
	Deploring
	The beauty perished beyond restoring.  Goethe's Faust

And as emotion is beyond our capacity to express intelligently, as we
are incapable of thought, but only of thinking - abstract symbol 
manipulation, lets behave just like those (Facists) whom we so 
                                                   HATE! HATE! HATE!
	Yet now I curse whate'er entices
	And snares the soul with visions vain;
	With dazzling cheats and dear devices
	Confines it in this cave of pain!
	Cursed be, at-once, the high ambition
	Wherewith the mind itself deludes!
	Cursed be the glare of apparition
	That on the finer sense intrudes!

>these gentlemen are theorizing about something in the world, and
>are thus subject to logical analysis and real critique.

Thus it was that we in the west, lost our sense of the sacred, a denial
of our own subjective experience. Capra is only an expression of this
sense of loss - this 'finer sense' - intuition does not negate reason but
is its source, and also source for all truely creative science. 

Now some more enlightened scientists, are coming to a greater conscious 
realisation of this "Wholeness and the implicate order" and are beginning 
to develop theories/methodologies that will	point the way to more
coherent ideas in all fields.

This restoration of the objective value of subjectivity has consequences,
one of which is the growing awareness of the totally irrational way we
manage (or mismanage) the ecosphere - the position of brain (and body)
dead technicians in our political/economic/military power structures will
become increasingly intolerable.

Regards
Nick

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