[MD] Mysticism and Epilepsy

[MarshaV]

Hi Dave,

On Nov 30, 2011, at 1:18 PM, David Thomas wrote:

> On 11/30/11 8:52 AM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
> 
>> I think both Buddha and RMP have suggested you find out for yourself.  Skip
>> the hypothetical.
> 
> Dave
> What hypothetical? A great deal of this article is brief accounts of real
> people and their experiences. The dedication to it says: "To my patients.
> Through their suffering, so often excruciating, they have gradually
> revealed a message full of meaning to me."
> 
> See what I've had a hard time wrapping my head around is that if suffering
> is the problem, why would I want to purposely take a path of self induced
> suffering (such as starving myself nearly to death) to evoke an experience
> that in many cases results in excruciating suffering, like being locked up
> in a mental institution and getting electroshock treatments? This is your
> idea of good? Not mine. Go for it.

Marsha:
I have no experience of being a suffering, Christian ascetic, or an epileptic, 
so your two paragraphs are hypothetical from my point-of-view.  If you choose 
Javier Álvarez's thesis to represent reality to you, I'll leave you to it.  What is it 
that W. James and Lila think about truth?  Oh right, it's whatever you think it to be.  





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