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From: David Cake (dave@difference.com.au)
Date: Sat 08 Jul 2000 - 16:31:55 EEST

Julian wrote:
> it does now appear that Western script *is* idiographic, after all ...

        Its always been the natural interpretation, to my mind, of a
mutually intelligible script for mutually unintelligible languages.

Worlds

        I always figured that the dream world and the mystic
otherworld where pretty much the same thing. The mystics are said to
have no otherworld of their own, because they deny its existence or
importance. So as they deny the existence and importance of the
otherworld, it becomes mutable and illusionary. As they refuse to
interact with it to tie it down, it has no permanent form. Thus we
get the dreamworld, a mutable changing thing. Some other 'mystic'
otherworlds are similar (Kralori hells, for example) - and in most
cases, the mystics teach that the real way to win at a heroquest is
to deny the existence/importance of the challenge and refuse to be
distracted. In other words, Refute Refute Refute.

        Cheers
                David

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