Thank you, Jack, for the link to the delicious, vibrant, intelligent, humorous, ‘funky’ Cornel West interview-in-transit. What a delight! Contemplating what he says about the ‘romantic’ quest for ‘wholeness’ and your comment about that in the orientation: He seems to be equating wholeness with ‘having everything’ rather than recognising the fulfillment of being-ness as allowing access to ‘totality’. I think he’d find the TSK analysis/discussion of self to be a challenging new departure. Perhaps we should send him some books…? From his musical taste, I think he’d be open.
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Yes, it appears his concept of the whole is based on desire, a self-center who wants, sets intent to acquire, and suffers from the failure to achieve the conceptual objects of desire. He seems to recognize that through death — the little ones — the giving up on breathing life into these impossible desires is a way of transcending the pain of loss. But I think you’re right that he doesn’t specifically articulate a more encompassing perspective except to appreciate what there is already, without resurrecting a myopic self-desire /fulfillment circularity of pain.