pynchon-l-digest V2 #2648

[FrodeauxB at aol.com]

Dear betsy,
I have heard of QED but not yet read it. I shall try although it seems the 
stack of things to read grows ever taller on the nightstand. As to the 
mystical aspects, Zukav does not so much treat them as mystical but rather 
proposes that quantum theory is a parallel expression of some of Tibetan 
Buddhism's fundamental concepts. For example, he refers to both Western 
Christianity and Tibetan Buddhism as "psychologies." He tries to analogize. 
Additionally, to him quantum theorists are not scientists in the traditional 
sense of that word; i. e. , they do not do experiments in the lab, collect 
the data, and publish the results for fun and profit. Their concern/goal is 
to find the light, or, as Zukav says "that which is." Not to explain it, 
because in our logocentric state of being, we have no tools to do so. Perhaps 
mathematics, and Leibnitz invented(?) calculus, may provide the necessary 
tools. Even this is problematic because mathematics too is finite. 
Nonetheless, Herr Doktor Leibnitz was neither so secular as to reject a 
Divine Being nor so spiritual as to reject his perception of reality. He 
searched for the correct combination of both. To say it another way, he 
believed that we are killer angels. We continue to search for proof of this, 
proof meaning either affirmation of the idea or rejection of it. As for yours 
truly, well, I doubt we will ever settle the debate in this plane of 
existence. That which is is that which is. 

TTFN,

Frodeaux B
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