[Dialogue] JWM as mystic

[Wilson Priscilla]

Wayne,
Well put...your insights always add to the discussion.
Joe was very dramatic about the "here and now" and I hear him over my  
shoulder frequently.
Priscilla Wilson

On Jun 4, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Wayne Nelson wrote:

> He probably was - in his own way. He, however, would and did claim  
> that his
> focus was on ontology rather than metaphysics. In his talk, The  
> Recovery of
> the Other World called the transparency we experience as a "new
> metaphysics." He talked about it as grounded and transparent. It's
> interesting to read again. As near as I can tell, he avoided  
> talking about
> mysticism entirely, because he wanted to make the point that life  
> takes
> place in the here and now and as we live in the here and now, we  
> sometimes
> see through to the profound.  One of Joe's gifts was the ability to  
> conjure
> up powerful metaphors that helped us see through our own situations  
> without
> losing track of where we are.
>
> \\/
>
>
>
> "LAURELCG at aol.com"  wrote:
>
>> I've been thinking of John Cock and Darrel Walker's exchange  
>> (below) ever
>> since it appeared, and haven't had time to comment, but want to  
>> now.  In my
>> memory, there is no doubt that Joseph Wesley Mathews was a  
>> mystic.  How else
>> could
>> he have experienced The Other World, and led us to also experience  
>> it?  Do you
>> remember his lecture on the fire at the center of being?  The  
>> wonder of
>> living that he evoked with those ridiculous TWEEU birds?  Remember  
>> the story
>> of his
>> ecstasy at spending a whole day in a cuckoo clock shop in  
>> Switzerland?  If he
>> hunts me down, I'll assure him not only was he a mystic, he also  
>> enabled
>> others to be mystics.
>
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Priscilla Wilson
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