Final snippet of Don Juan
Sep. 19th, 2003 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cybermuleFinally finished the book. It was OK - a lot of the ideas were good, but without wishing to disrespect the sacred rituals, I was mostly just, like, eat the drug and tell us what happens next! Anyhoo - memorable snippets from the structural analysis, then I've had a productive evening and I'm off to bed:
I have called the meetings with the ally states of non-ordinary reality. I choose the term 'non-ordinary reality' because it conformed with don Juan's assertion that such meetings took place in a continuum of reality, a reality that was only slightly different from the ordinary reality of everyday life.
Characteristics of non-ordinary reality:
(1) Utilisable - pertinent also in ordinary reality, and of use in gaining knowledge.
(2) Has components (actions, objects, events) composed of characteristics of both ordinary reality and ordinary dreams.
Characteristics of components: stability (constant, like ordinary reality), singularity (details revealed in isolation, not as a whole) and lack of consensus (always experienced in solitude).
Man, I need to install a scan-2-txt program :P
I have called the meetings with the ally states of non-ordinary reality. I choose the term 'non-ordinary reality' because it conformed with don Juan's assertion that such meetings took place in a continuum of reality, a reality that was only slightly different from the ordinary reality of everyday life.
Characteristics of non-ordinary reality:
(1) Utilisable - pertinent also in ordinary reality, and of use in gaining knowledge.
(2) Has components (actions, objects, events) composed of characteristics of both ordinary reality and ordinary dreams.
Characteristics of components: stability (constant, like ordinary reality), singularity (details revealed in isolation, not as a whole) and lack of consensus (always experienced in solitude).
Man, I need to install a scan-2-txt program :P
