Re: Toggling nature's auto-erase

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2001 - 23:41:02 GMT

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    Hi Joe E. Dees -

    >When I get the eureka
    >experience, it's for a good, genuine and authentic reason.

    I know of no other eureka experience. Eureka, after all, means, "I have
    found it," in reference to a long-sought and long-elusive answer. It
    means actively looking.

    Such is the creative experience- "When I discover something new, and
    after much effort, finally gain a penetrating understanding-" as you said.

    I don't think, at all, that such moments come from "contemplating
    nothing, or my navel, or my heartbeat or breath".

    But, where do such moments come from? And how can we promote them? And
    how can we let everyone, everywhere, know this moment, and not just for
    one moment, but for many, many moments, in all moments of their life?

    I have found only science supplying these moments. Only the heuristic
    path we call science leads to such moments.

    Only the marvelous is beautiful.

    >That's why I quit doing it.

    If you are speaking of meditation (well, perhaps, yogic breathing or
    something like that), then, yes, of course you quit- if you have known
    the eureka experience, you certainly know such techniques are useless to
    provide one.

    The eureka experience comes from a gathering of knowledge of nature and
    one's motion within it, and is not willed or coerced into existence, or
    waited for, however patiently.

    And it makes one leap naked from the bath and into the dream.

    - Wade

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