[Buddha-l] What is direct experience?

[Gad Horowitz]

the www aint distant


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> Libraries being distant, why don't you supply a short take on
> what his take on it is? 
> 
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> Horowitz
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> see alfred korzybski (general semantics) the structural
> differential.
> if you're serious.
> 
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> 
>> =
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 11/30/2010 2:15:15 P.M. SA Western Standard
> Time,  
>> jkirk at spro.net writes:
>> 
>> Not sure if this might be 'an' example of direct experience,
> but
>> it  strikes me that being in an accident is one example of
> knowing
>> minus  intellectual overlay or activity/comment.  
>> When I slipped on ice,  fell and broke an arm, I instantly
>> knew/felt/experienced that I fell and  was hurt, but I wasn't
>> "thinking about" it until immediately after it  happened. 
>> Joanna 
>> 
>> 
>> Hello there,
>> 
>> I hope it's not too  feeble to ask - what is direct experience,
>> knowing something without the  intellect? I think I am used to
>> altered states of consciousness like seeing  things that aren't
>> there or delusional conviction but I don't know that I  can
> find
>> room for much more
>> ===
>> 
>> 
>> I think we can also have direct experience of thoughts and
> emotions.
>> 
>> jack
>> 
>> 
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