[MD] Intellectual Level

[John Carl]

Greetings Mary,

Just wondering if, as you say, prayer is of the social level, would you say
the same about meditation?  I'm wondering because I'm reading a book on the
subject of meditation in Christianity and Buddhism, and according to the
Author, B.A Wallace, they are very, very similiar.

Also, the kinds of praying that are done socially, are condemned in the
Bible.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites [are]: for they
love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets,
that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their
reward.  But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou
hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father
which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

Matt. 6:5,6

John the pious pray-er and part-time meditator


> [Mary]
> Yes, the only way to discuss a metaphysics is at the Intellectual Level
> where S/O paradoxes exist.  The very act of "discussion" demands it.  Yet
> just as values at the Social Level can dimly perceive the value of
> Intellectual pursuits, so the Intellectual discussion can dimly perceive
> the
> value of the transcendent patterns it is discussing.  It is hard to
> understand Intellectual Level science by using Social Level prayer.  In the
> same way, it is hard to understand patterns of value that transcend SOM by
> discussing them.  Put another way, you can't learn science by praying about
> it, and you can't learn the meaning of saying the world is Quality before
> substance by talking about it.
>
> Best,
> Mary
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