09-10-2011, 12:00 AM
seesaw wrote:What all of them did was in fact describe expereinces according to their over-arching beliefs. They would describe an experience via explanations from their paradigms. That was actually a very important destinction that i learned to differentiate between. I now understand there is a vast difference between a description and an explanation.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Although, you saw it with the monster hunters, I see it here in Castaneda forums. Missing are plain, straight forward descriptions of not only experiences, but what was learned or how it transformed one's life. Reminds me of the warrior's journal that DJ once instructed CC to write of the moments that altered the course of his life. Perhaps it is a lost art? Perhaps it is a skill worth cultivating?
I remember when it used to be all the rage about how people go through the motions in their daily life and how their daily life then comes up feeling empty. Your description speaks of the same type of emptiness. They have all the words, they go through all the motions, and still it is lacking something.
I wonder what that something is?
Couldn't have said it better myself. Although, you saw it with the monster hunters, I see it here in Castaneda forums. Missing are plain, straight forward descriptions of not only experiences, but what was learned or how it transformed one's life. Reminds me of the warrior's journal that DJ once instructed CC to write of the moments that altered the course of his life. Perhaps it is a lost art? Perhaps it is a skill worth cultivating?
I remember when it used to be all the rage about how people go through the motions in their daily life and how their daily life then comes up feeling empty. Your description speaks of the same type of emptiness. They have all the words, they go through all the motions, and still it is lacking something.
I wonder what that something is?