Here's the link - if you haven't seen it.

Now that Ken Wilber has revealed that the blogrant post was a deliberate provocation - as many of us NOT in the know suspected - there isn't much that I would have to retract, yet, of my posts of the last few days.  At least at this point - although I'm sure that is coming. 

a. I initially was puzzled,
b. the logic didn't make much sense
c. Visser is still being distorted, and
d. In the last post, I speculated that this was deliberate, as well as anticipated Ken's appeal to the 2nd tier.
e.(I also in the beginning speculated that part of the reason for Ken's post was to pick up clicks.)

Here's the relevant passage: from my previous post - written before Ken reveals that his initial blog rant was a deliberate provocation:

1. I feel that Ken is being pretty honest here.  He truly sees almost all critics that address him as not being able to either understand his theory, or attacking his theories for nefarious reasons.  And he feels that about Visser, though clearly his logic on that is skewed (as I've demonstrated.)

2. At the same time - he is "blowing it up" - taking his normal arguments and exaggerating them, for effect.  In this sense, he is playing with his normal reaction, and, to a degree, spoofing it, with a wink and a smile.  ("I'm just kidding with all the dick references, can't you tell?")

If you are going to stick in the verbal shiv - the best way to do it, is to tell a joke while you are doing the sticking.  Then you always have an out - "I'm just kidding - don't you have a sense of humor?". 

3. And, I want to describe a very important point here, and I mainly mean this as a response to Jay Andrew Allen, and also a little to Bill -

When a person has some access to some higher consciousness - a higher truth, etc, that has been achieved in a particular bodymind, this truth shines through - even if the bodymind shining that truth is behaving in a particularly atrocious way. 

While I was (clearly) obsessing about Wilber's post and what it "means" (and what is a blogger but an obsesser?), I began to "touch", and "vibrate" with that sense of cosmic play.  In this sense, Ken's smiling mug, winking at me saying "see?  all this - these horrible words - these words too do not destroy the truth of your Self.  So open, live, love, play, be angry in the beneficience of God. Because this is the final Truth".

Now, why I am attempting to justify my recent posts of the last few days?  

While you may think it is just because of the natural tendency not to want to made to look foolish - and I'm sure that is part of it - but there is another reason:

This actually, for me, reaffirms the ability of blogs - using this type of communal analysis - to suss out truth.  Even while interpreting words on a screen.  For example, I was helped along in my perception, by hearing those people who were saying "do you get the joke?", and helped by pretty much all the posts I've read over the last few days.

Communally, we didn't do a bad job.  Maybe this blog thing has a future?