tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223268166506220172.post4779381758111826418..comments2023-06-15T07:26:29.250-07:00Comments on Kathleen Brugger: Spinning a Web of SelfAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10014702662672465540noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6223268166506220172.post-64936339937089115752014-01-23T15:36:31.571-08:002014-01-23T15:36:31.571-08:00It has been my experience that when you battle the...It has been my experience that when you battle the ego it only empowers it. We can only surrender it to a higher power, whatever we perceive that to be. It serves us, but when we become its servant that’s when the insanity and obsession with survival ensues. But you know that all too well and have written about it eloquently in your books. I love your imagery of the weaver and the web. I also believe that there is a web that has no weaver as described by Chinese medicine. This metaphysics that emphasizes the perception of patterns is basic to Chinese thinking, which altogether lacks the idea of a creator, and whose concern is insight into the web phenomena, not the weaver. For the Chinese, that web has no weaver, no creator; in the West the final concern is always the creator or cause and the phenomena is merely its reflection. In the Chinese view the truth is imminent; in the Western, truth is transcendent. Knowledge within the Chinese framework is the desire to understand the interrelationships of patterns within that web. And as you say, “It’s a dance…” I wonder where those new steps will take you.Thea Summer Deerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00519182204556025254noreply@blogger.com