Within A Metaphysics Of Quality, Science Is

If Your Mind Is Truly, Profoundly Stuck, Then It Might Be Much Better Off Than When It Was Loaded With Ideas

A Person Filled With Gumption Doesn’t Sit About Stewing About Things. He’s At The Front Of The Train Of His Own Awareness, Watching To See What’s Up The Track And Meeting It When It Comes. That’s Gumption. If You’re Going To Repair A Motorcycle, An Adequate Supply Of Gumption Is The First And Most Important Tool. If You Haven’t Got That You Might As Well Gather Up All The Other Tools And Put Them Away, Because They Won’t Do You Any Good.

What The Metaphysics Of Quality Would Do Is Take This Separate Category, Quality, And Show How It Contains Within Itself Both Subjects And Objects. The Metaphysics Of Quality Would Show How Things Become Enormously More Coherent-fabulously More Coherent-when You Start With An Assumption That Quality Is The Primary Empirical Reality Of The World. . . . . . . But Showing That, Of Course, Was A Very Big Job. . . .

The Past Exists Only In Our Memories, The Future Only In Our Plans. The Present Is Our Only Reality. The Tree That You Are Aware Of Intellectually, Because Of That Small Time Lag, Is Always In The Past And Therefore Is Always Unreal. Any Intellectually Conceived Object Is Always In The Past And Therefore Unreal. Reality Is Always The Moment Of Vision Before The Intellectualization Takes Place. There Is No Other Reality.

I Think This Fear Of Insanity Is Comparable To The Fear People Once Had Of Falling Off The Edge Of The World. Or The Fear Of Heretics...what's Happening Is That Each Year Our Old Flat Earth Of Conventional Reason Becomes Less And Less Adequate To Handle The Experiences We Have And This Is Creating Wide-spread Feelings Of Topsy-turviness. As A Result We're Getting More And More People In Irrational Areas Of Thought...occultism, Mysticism, Drug Changes And The Like...because They Feel An Inadequacy In Classical Reason To Handle What They Know Are Real Experiences.