An Email From Tina DeWeese, daughter of Robert and Gennie DeWeese Soon After My Visit To Their Home Summer 02.
Dear Henry,
The pleasure was ours to have your spirited presence in our lives for
a couple of days! Your passion for you mission is admirable and
contagious. All of us have expressed new intentions to reread Zen
after such long, engaging discussion and reminiscence of those times.
The most interesting thing is how it all touches back into an issue
that is, indeed, timeless...in each of our lives, this search for
Zen, which Pirsig brought so eloquently into the collective
consciousness of our times. Though different generations, we all
share in that essential quest (archetypal hero...), that he brought
into focus through the cultural lens of our western culture. He
pioneered a movement which is ongoing and perilous in our present
global circumstance, but there have been many perilous global
circumstances through TIME, and still, we have that uniquely human
capacity to transcend, to follow through with an inner thread of
personal mythology that, by nature, seeks its way to peace. My
brother, Jan, said it well one night, his wife tells us, when he sat
bolt upright in bed, sound asleep, with a revelation, "The last
frontier! Little pockets of nothingness!" It is in those deep breaths
and moments of rest (Langohr Campground a wonderful retreat!) that we
can be present in the moment. All the rest of our activity is in the
effort we make to get there. And there are many teachers along the
way. I think of Herman Hesse, Carlos Castenada, certainly Jung and
his many progeny of followers - Joseph Campbell, James Hillman,
William Irwin Thompson...Micheal and Linda Sexson. It's an exciting
thread of western consciousness to follow, applicable to all that we
do along this path. The Grateful Dead - so many artists that are
tapped into the journey of perception. Revelation/revolatin,
evolution. I suppose it is our own little reserves of energy that will
guide our way and dropping out from the world and fury gives us the
strength to carry on with whatever tasks we need to attend in the
process of becoming present in the moment, be it with our sticky pads
of notes, or with the horses. Like the zen story that my mother told
about the guy being chased by a lion, falls over a cliff, but hangs
on to a tiny shrub on the side of the cliff. He looks up to see the
lion and, looking below, sees another lion. He sees beside him on the
cliff a strawberry plant with a little red strawberry...and he plucks
it and tastes it for its sweetness. It is in that tension we all live
to find our presence in the moment, eh?
Thank you for your patience in sharing you knowledge of Physics, a
field of science I, like my father, have only an intuitive sense of.
It is a treat to have it all laid out, brings it to life/into context
of a world I know by heart, and through psyche/soul/dream. Psychology
and physics - Psyche/soma.We're all juggling the same pieces.
We're happy that your stay in these parts has been helpful to your
research, and hope your further travels will be as rewarding. Thank
you again for your gracious presence. We were very happy to meet you,
too.
Warm regards, Tina
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