--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "mainstream20016" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Curtis, this is addressed to you and I'm sure you will respond, but.....may I ? > Trinity3, why would you doubt that he doesn't feel independent of unconscious processes, > and that he uses them (uncoscious processes) for his art ? It seems that Curtis is fully one > with the creative expressions from their inception, through their expression through his > art, in his case blues music performance. The concept of control of the process was > introduced by your question, and isn't what he asserts. He seems to be a fully > enlightened artist, at one with the first creative impulse, through its relative expression of > his own voice, guitar, and physical expression. Expanding the range of awareness of the > conscious mind to percieve the first impulses of creativity is what FFLers have been doing > naturally for a very long time. > -Mainstream Mainstream, maybe I am doing injustice to Curtis, I am certainly not doubting his creative process. Its simply my understanding of atheism as a philosophy of life. Religion, any religion certainly questions the independence of our mind /ego (while I am aware that Christianity makes it a special point that God gave man freedom of decision - not my belief) and makes it dependent on another entity, atheism asserts us that we alone are in control of our lives. At least thats what I have understood it to mean until now. Of course, everyone is aware of 'limitations' we all have,imposed to us by nature. But there is a fundamental belief that we are ourself in charge of what we believe in, that we with our mind can logically understand life and should reject irrationality. In fact religion is seen as 'irrational' by atheists, which implies that they believe in a rational understanding of life. IOW they regard ratio higher than feelings or experiences (as Curtis is never tired to point out that he regards the same mystical experiences many of us share in a different way and strips them of any religious meaning they could have.) In fact he tries to understand them rationally only, as I believe. Thus he places ratio highest, and I always understood this to mean a place where intellect is 'in control'
