[MD] New Age++

[gav]

if you look for enlightenment you aren't going to find
it.


--- david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Marsha quoted:
> "When Phaedrus first went to India he'd wondered
> why, if this passage of 
> enlightenment into pure Dynamic Quality was such a
> universal reality, did it 
> only occur in certain parts of the world and not
> others?  At the time he'd 
> thought this was proof that the whole thing was just
> Oriental religious 
> baloney, the equivalent of a magic land called
> "heaven" that Westerners go 
> to if they are good and get a ticket from the
> priests.  Now he saw that 
> enlightenment is distributed in all parts of the
> world just as the color 
> yellow is distributed in all parts of the world, but
> some cultures accept it 
> and others screen out recognition of it."  (Lila,
> Chapter 32)
> 
> dmb says:
> "Enlightenment is distributed in all parts of the
> world". If I had to 
> describe the basis of the perennial philosophy in
> ten words or less, that 
> would do pretty well. This is one of my favorite
> pieces of Lila and I think 
> the sentiment goes along quite well with the up side
> of the New Age 
> movement. I mean, when people go fishing around for
> alternatives long 
> enough, this is what they'll discover. I think that
> our scientific secular 
> culture and our mainstream religious culture are
> BOTH among those who 
> "screen out recognition of it" and that this
> cultural blindspot is what 
> sends people out looking for alternatives.
> 
> When it goes bad, you end up believing that we were
> created by the space 
> aliens who built the pyramids long ago and have now
> returned to probe us, 
> save us or destroy us. Take yer pick. When it goes
> bad, the search for a 
> spiritual life leads you to worship Thor and hang
> out with militia men at 
> gun shows.
> 
> But if we can avoid getting caught up in fantasy or
> tribal regression and 
> take a look at what the various cultures have said
> about enlightenment, then 
> I'm all for it. And I suppose there no big mystery
> about the what makes it 
> go bad or not. It just a matter of being careful and
> having a little 
> patience. Like I said, when you're very hungry, just
> about anything tastes 
> good. Or, to switch metaphors, lonely guys tends to
> fall for the first girl 
> that comes along. I mean, there is a certain kind of
> desperation that makes 
> it easy to fall for a partial view or a half answer.
> But I think 
> enlightenment is really what people are looking for
> and I'm in favor of 
> whatever works. And if its distributed in all parts
> of the world, then it 
> should be too hard to find some wise words about it.
> 
> But there is no such thing as "yellow". That's just
> a lot of superstitious 
> nonsense. Sure, there's lots of truth in vermillion,
> but people who believe 
> in yellow are totally full of shit.
> 
> Thanks.
> dmb
> 
>
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