Once I was dating a guy who eventually became a race car driver - we were driving north to go skiing about a 6 hour drive - his family had a chalet in Vermont , and he says “ there is a pot hole around here to watch out for .” At which very moment we hit it - still makes me laugh out loud . Flat tire etc . But his race car driver mind had the entire highway - all 6 hours of it not just mapped but cartography mapped — surface mapped … yet his logistic mind was still separate and observing … not reacting . I believe that the message of this book you described - the coma and the voluntary disconnect from real life of the brother and sister pretty much sums up most peoples reaction to reality . They just do it at a more subtle level . I’m telling this story because he called the pothole literally at the time the pothole was there - it wasn’t a minute / it was the second before - so in his system the connection and timing was perfect - just the wiring was off - the trust of his own signals . I believe what your work is about is re wiring that circuit board to self , in places where it was mal connected to represent “not self” ( nihilism)
I am increasingly convinced that perception is reality. Even if one's perception is a total engagement with the real. The limitations, even of perfection, expose themselves in their interaction with people and with the divine. In this sense, there is no actual perfection and no actual total immersion with reality. There is only the perception of each. As a result, real engagement begins with respect for the "other" or the "outside" of what we know. It is interesting that she read Gödel who had his own genius conflict with other geniuses with his incompleteness theorem. This adds another dimension to the perception of reality, the perception of perfection and the perception of our relationship to the world apart from his. Thank you for a great review.
Once I was dating a guy who eventually became a race car driver - we were driving north to go skiing about a 6 hour drive - his family had a chalet in Vermont , and he says “ there is a pot hole around here to watch out for .” At which very moment we hit it - still makes me laugh out loud . Flat tire etc . But his race car driver mind had the entire highway - all 6 hours of it not just mapped but cartography mapped — surface mapped … yet his logistic mind was still separate and observing … not reacting . I believe that the message of this book you described - the coma and the voluntary disconnect from real life of the brother and sister pretty much sums up most peoples reaction to reality . They just do it at a more subtle level . I’m telling this story because he called the pothole literally at the time the pothole was there - it wasn’t a minute / it was the second before - so in his system the connection and timing was perfect - just the wiring was off - the trust of his own signals . I believe what your work is about is re wiring that circuit board to self , in places where it was mal connected to represent “not self” ( nihilism)
I am increasingly convinced that perception is reality. Even if one's perception is a total engagement with the real. The limitations, even of perfection, expose themselves in their interaction with people and with the divine. In this sense, there is no actual perfection and no actual total immersion with reality. There is only the perception of each. As a result, real engagement begins with respect for the "other" or the "outside" of what we know. It is interesting that she read Gödel who had his own genius conflict with other geniuses with his incompleteness theorem. This adds another dimension to the perception of reality, the perception of perfection and the perception of our relationship to the world apart from his. Thank you for a great review.