>Mundane Law>
Good model.
>Mythic Law>
OK model. =
Douglas Hofstadter in one of his books (sorry, no idea which one) gives a description of the ultimate rules-lawyers' game. The basic rule (law) is that each player takes turns proposing changes to=
the laws of the game, which are enacted according to another (modifiable)= rule. =
EVERY law in the game can be changed, according first to the starting set= , =
or "Constitution", which can be modified during play. =
Laws can be enacted forbidding changes to some of the rules but these laws can themselves be repealed later. The procedures, =
as I understand them, can become very complicated. (No, I have never and will never play this game ... ) =
IMO your Mythic Law would work along these lines, provided Mythic Law were governed by itself as well as governing heroic action.
Heroquesting doesn't work like this in IMG. =
But for Glorantha as mindscape? Mythic Law seems pretty much OK to me!
(Except of course that it *sounds* like 8-( RuleMaster ... )
>Without someone deliberately concentrating on one set of laws or the
>other, which controls things, Mundane or Mythic? =
The Dragon =D8 does, in Glorantha, from a mystical perspective.
(Mystic Law? Impossible! IMHO and here your story breaks down a bit ... )=
8-)Nils Weinander:
>while it's very hard to become illuminated if you try consciously for it=
, =
>I think long and hard study is needed to reach enlightenment.
Well, yes. I think, though, that in the history of RW ideas, the Enlightenment movement was successful because it was _easier_ than trying to understand the religious feeling.
(Understanding the religious feeling: =
almost an oxymoron,but not quite.)
Enlightenment, as I see it, was essentially a technique for
acheiving intellectual clarity which had very little to do =
with mysticism. (Flames welcome if I'm wrong here ... ) =
Illumination transcends intellectual clarity by creating a space between and around the objects of intellectual activity, where the =
soul can exist in a state approaching contentment. It is a state of being= =
which can become distressing where logic is a source of joy. (RW: Now!)
Intellectual clarity *can* lead to illumination, and it will whenever this clarity is pure. =
Similarly, illumination *can* lead to intellectual clarity in minds =
which have access to proper education (organised or not). =
But the two are neither necessary to each other nor opposed IMO.
Of course, if Gloranthan "enlightenment" isn't like RW Enlightenment, then the above is a load of puppy poo.=
End of The Glorantha Digest V5 #591
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