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I found the road trip part of the book enjoyable, but the philosophy (Quality) talk a bit drawn out and something I didn't get. Have been intermittently reading it, but haven't finished it yet.

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Same situation for me. I find the philosophy to be too judgemental, and the belief that Quality is the metaphysical key to the understanding of the world seems really overstretched.

As I understood, it boils down to: Quality is the cutting edge of experience, which is the totality of any "reality" we can know. Things like science, religion, etc. are static value patterns that we assemble to explain that experience, and that allow us to use a process of "static latching" (from Lila) to climb higher up the mountain of quality.

Whilst possibly a gross over-simplification, I do find this perspective a really practical philosophy for personal growth as well as a good basecamp for approaching other philosophical viewpoints.

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