To Binah or not to Binah?

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 12 21:24:23 CDT 2000


>From: Mike Weaver
>
>Morris on
>
>>"Binary Systems"
>>implies Control, clear decision-switching, ON or OFF.  Everything else is 
>>the middle.  When seeking to understand the world (not to control it), 
>>EVERYTHING is analyzed in terms of contrasts or similarities, but in the 
>>combined blends of many middle-grounds, shades of gray.
>
>Binary systems - tensions between Polarities
>(control - no control, clarity - chaos u.s.w.)
>
>The palette or spectrum image may be a good way of mapping but it doesn't 
>tell you which way you are traveling. Motion the missing quotient, the 
>third dimension with space and time.
>
>I seem to remember that the binary thing really used to bug me when I was 
>tripping. Maybe it's just about looking at things in a way we can get a 
>handle on. Three body problem anyone?

Logic and tripping were oil and water for me.  The cause for application of 
logic while tripping was anxiety, the need to hold on to reality.  Circular 
reasoning was the result for me.  I kept coming back to the start of the 
path.  In a tripping extreme one time all reality became a circular cone of 
vision, a big fish-eye lens.  Talk about being on the other side!  I saw the 
world shrunk down to a circle, and me looking at it from God knows where.  I 
was very scared.

I never had a third body experience or conflict.  Just being was the best 
way to be, but that required either oblivion or contentment.  If lucky, 
fascination with the trip could fill in for either.

David Morris

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