[MD] New Age++

[MarshaV]

Hi Ian,

I didn't think there was any argumentation here, just some considering.

Marsha


At 09:57 AM 1/25/2006, Ian wrote:
>Marsha, DMB,
>
>I'm dropping into this thread a bit late ...
>"Is everyone looking for enlightenment, should they be ?"
>
>I liken this to the Maslow / Freudian stuff about what drives people.
>(Much maligned by those who fear the consequences.)
>
>People strive for what matters to them next, what they can see matters.
>If you're starving, food.
>If you're cold, shelter.
>If you're ignorant, knowledge, etc ...
>If you're (feeling sufficiently) healthy, wealthy and wise, then ...
>something more.
>(The earlier drives just become "hygiene" - you only care about not
>losing them, not the positive value of having them. Just like the MoQ
>Layers relationship, backstops, latches, no longer the dynamic
>qualities of progress.)
>
>Heylighen likened Maslow (and Pirsig), evolution to higher
>intellectual fulfillment to Zen "Satori".
>
>We can argue about what "enlightenement" is, but I think the framework
>describing the human drive towards it hangs together pretty well on
>all fronts; Spiritual and scientific.
>
>Ian