At 10:40 am on 7/22/97 Keller Ann Easterling wrote:
>that I am always embarrassed to go on too much about it, because someone
>inevitably thinks I am talking about some kind of mystical or spiritual
>unknowable practice. While I don't judge the mystical and spiritual
>harshly, I would like to avoid the confused association, since I think
>those practices or storage or prompt or substitution are very simple and
>workmanlike on some level. They are simply underused mental faculties
>that I like to demystify.
I understand your drive to "demystify the mystical" (is that an oxymoron?)
or the "spiritual", I have found myself in the same situation, where I am
intending a work to be conceived pragmatically or didactically or
somatically, and viewers read their own mystical belief
systems/pre-judgements into it. Nevertheless, I am passionately interested
in what I refer to as "invisible forces" which I suppose is a way of
phrasing "the virtual" (especially in regards to electromagnetism, mineral
memory, cellular memory, etc). It is the traces of these invisible forces
which are given a kind of "spiritual" currency, perhaps for lack at this
time, of any other way to determine their "value".
Eve Andree
P.S. I am in the (very slow) process of compiling an index of frequently
used words on this forum. It is interesting to note the patterns. At some
time in the hopefully near future I will post this. Any suggestions anyone?