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In the end, everything comes to self-gratification, well-being and leading a good quality of life for ourselves, sharing how we are doing it and what it means for us. My heuristics shows a way that I think works for me in communicating it. The heuristics and communication of it, itself exists, to make me a contributing person. So it is a circle grounded in my self-development as me. Science, Philosophy, education, psychology (what was done to my field that I embarked on as an adolescent in the hope of improving human existence), art, ethics, literature exist to improve our quality of life. Why not approach it directly as ontology? You know, it is nothing to be ashamed of to say that I live my life in order to improve it and its quality, to fulfil my craving for challenges and excitements and new thrills. All my actions, including the present one of research and reflections, are done for this intentions. Somehow science and academia make us ashame to say and admit this. Why????? Alon >-- Original Message -- >Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 13:26:57 +0100 >Reply-To: Sarah Fletcher <[log in to unmask]> >From: Sarah Fletcher <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: relevant laing on scientific evaluation >To: [log in to unmask] > > >Hi Alan - thank you! > >I really enjoyed your poem and painting - but there are visible boundaries >and >as I read Laing there aren't ie inside is the outside so the mole eats itself? > >Time for lunch! >Sarah > > > >Quoting "A.D.M.Rayner" <[log in to unmask]>: > >> Dear Sara and all, >> >> Here is 'the 'Hole in the Mole'.... >> >> Which goes with the following poem... >> >> >> Best >> >> Alan >> >> >> "THE HOLE IN THE MOLE" >> >> By Alan Rayner, Oil on Canvas, 2001 >> >> >> I AM the hole >> That lives in a mole >> That induces the mole >> To dig the hole >> That moves the mole >> Through the earth >> That forms a hill >> That becomes a mountain >> That reaches to sky >> That connects with stars >> And brings the rain >> That the mountain collects >> Into streams and rivers >> That moisten the earth >> That grows the grass >> That freshens the air >> That condenses to rain >> That carries the water >> That brings the mole >> To Life >> >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Sarah Fletcher <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: 29 July 2005 20:09 >> Subject: Re: relevant laing on scientific evaluation >> >> >> > Hi Alon - >> > >> > I'm sure you know this. In case others aren't familar with it, I thought >> I'd >> > send. I'd love to see Alon Rayner's depiction of this inside-outside >in >> oils. >> > >> > One is inside >> > then outside what one has been inside >> > One feels empty >> > because there is nothing inside oneself >> > One tries to get inside oneself >> > that inside of the outside >> > once one tries to get oneself inside what >> > one is outside: >> > to eat and to be eaten >> > to have the outside inside and to be >> > inside the outside >> > >> > But this is not enough. One is trying to get >> > the inside of what one is outside inside, and to >> > get iside the outside. But one does not get >> > inside the outside by getting the outside inside >> > for; >> > although one is full inside of the inside of the outside >> > one is on the outside of one's own inside >> > and by getting inside the outside >> > while one is on the inside >> > even the inside of the outside is outside >> > and inside oneself there is still nothing >> > There never has been anything else >> > and there never will be >> > >> > Laing, R.D. (1972) 'Knots' Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, p. 83 >> > >> > Thought for the week? Don't work too hard, >> > Warm regards, >> > Sarah >> > >> > http://www.TeacherResearch.net >> > >> > >> > >> > Quoting Alon Serper <[log in to unmask]>: >> > >> > > And another quote from Laing - The Bird of Paradise >> > > >> > > if this I that is the wherewith and whereby is not anything that I >know, >> > > then it is no thing - nothing. >> > > >> > >> ___________________________________________________________ Book yourself something to look forward to in 2005. Cheap flights - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/flights/ Bargain holidays - http://www.tiscali.co.uk/travel/holidays/