Michael-
The quotes you gave us seem to relate to concepts of relativism. I don’t know if I can reconcile that all experience is based on personal viewpoint. I’d say it changes drastically depending on your viewpoint… I am a theatre major. Currently, I’m acting in a production staged in a thrust theatre, where the audience is seated on three different sides of the stage. Each seat offers an essentially different view, and consequently, and different experience of the play. That’s why sports enthusiasts fight over “good seats” at OSU football games, to have a better view of the action. However, the action being performed is still essentially the same. Everyone still sees the same “raw” play, or action, as viewed through their “lens”, the sum of where they sit, what they choose to look at, etc. I don’t know that experience can be summed up in only what “you” see. Instead, I think your experience as the seeker or perceiver limits your experience of the things that you experience. Does that make sense? Everything you experience only exists for you, but I think it is worth it to know that there is always more to the story than just your perception. Perhaps then the experience of being a seeker is working to expand your own personal perception to include more of the whole event.
Zak Houston 