[MD] Intellectual Level

[MarshaV]

Andre,

I think somebody's identity slipped.   


Marsha 
 
 
 

On Sep 19, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Andre Broersen wrote:

> Frank in response to Marsha:
> 
> What if mystical experiences are not a higher level of experience but a
> regressive, reduced, or more animalistic type experience?
> 
> Andre:
> Well, not quite Frank. The Meeting of East and West, if I understand anything
> about Northrop's thesis at all, is about the difference of interpretation of experience,
> or rather the activity of experiencing itself.
> There is nothing 'mystical' about mystical/religious experiences. They are the reporting
> DIRECTLY of pure experience. The philosophies of the 'East' are based on this.
> 
> The philosophies of the 'West' have been suspicious of this form of reporting (see ZMM) claiming
> them to be unreliable,passionate, whimsical, subjective etc etc. and have therefore mesmorized
> everyone by introducing the idea of (theoretical)'postulation' as a 'safe-guard' for entering into
> false avenues and representations....(of 'reality').
> 
> It comes down to immediate experience (East) and experience by postulate (West).
> 
> Or to perhaps slightly rephrase your terminology ('animalistic')=pure experience.(East)
> 
> Postulated experience= through the theoretical grind.(West)
> 
> Does this make sense?
> 
> 


 
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