[MD] Reading & Comprehension

[MarshaV]

Greetings,

James's biography clearly states he had read and reread 
Upanishad and Buddhist texts, tests that belonged to his 
father.  This would have been approximately around 1870.   


Marsha




On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:15 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote:

> Mary, DMB, Jon, et al
> 
> Dave quoted Mary saying ...
> "Much to my own surprise, I find that I am becoming daily more and
> more in the Eastern mysticism camp".
> 
> I've been round this loop myself. A traditional rationalist,
> objectivist "engineer" who found the Eastern Mysticism a source of
> embarassment initially - and lets face it there are some whacky
> extremes to be embarrassed about. But once understood how the
> mysticism fits the pragmatism, as Dave says, there is no reason to see
> these as diametrically opposed approaches. (Jon, DMB will explain -
> how long have you got ?)
> 
> Mary also said
> "IMHO the MoQ has much greater explanatory power when the Intellectual
> Level is viewed as SOM than when it is not. ..."
> 
> I actually agree with this (and I've tried many times to tell Bo I
> agree with him too) so I ask you a question. If we limit the
> intellectual level to this kind of intellect ... where in the
> evolutionary levels of the MoQ does your Eastern Mystic view fit ?
> (Let me guess, everywhere and nowhere at the same time ?)
> 
> Ian
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