[MD] new blog

Michael Poloukhine moq at poloukhine.com
Mon Feb 2 17:26:57 PST 2009


> dmb says:
> And so what is the mystical experience, exactly? Well, you can't say
> in advance what it will be like. That's what makes it fresh and
> original. That's what makes it Dynamic as opposed to static. That's
> what makes it ineffable and, like mel was saying in connection with
> Taoism and Judaism, why the divine cannot be named. 
> 
> Enlightenment is different for every person. They are, so to speak, tailor made for
> each person and so it totally depends on who you are, where you are
> and when you are. It'll present itself in such a way as to be
> meaningful for you. So it's not a singular or specific event.  It's
> more like a category of experience. 
> 

MP: I read this and only become more confused as to how you can reject 
theism as defined in its most inclusive definition (as I use it.) On the one hand 
you reject theism's meirts outright when I refer to it, and yet here essentially 
laud the very beauty/simplicity of thesim in that very definition I use. What 
gives? 



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