02-07-2014, 02:41 PM
(02-07-2014, 02:32 PM)zenmaster Wrote: The experience of an individual is also what is used to relate the experience of an individual. There is nothing else available. So yes, it has everything to do with it. And there is a difference between an experience which is more distorted than another as far as its ability to relate something of value to those seeking less distortion of that nature.
The relativism hand-waving thing becomes an absurdity at a point when relativism is actually accepted rather than being a significant contention of observed interaction. The idea of "acceptance" also transforms as distortion is lessened. For many here, what passes for acceptancr is obviously still an unconscious reaction from a perceived ego judgment (as they are still involves in balancing that aspect of yellow to a large degree). The frame is applied and used "as if", and bolstered by personal comfort and congruency with what is able to be accepted so far (which is often latched to a recognizable meme and there for largely unconscious)
You say here, "obviously still an unconscious reaction", to whom is this obviousness apparent and if it is apparently obvious to one but not to another, whom can be said to be perceiving with "less distortion"?
I agree with much of what you say, most of the time, ZM, but what I have never figured out from your explanations is what is the objective measure of distortion as related to the descriptions of individuals' experiences, and what qualifies one to describe the apparent blockages of another?
I am not asking to be facetious, but it is an actual concern of mine from the standpoint of being a healer who is often asked to give an assessment from my perspective of another's state.