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Mar 2, 2003 7:07 pm
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I read some more of these books: Myth and Ritual in Christianity Alan Watts http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0807013757 The Door in the Sky: Coomaraswamy...
Rationality inevitably leads to this model. In practice, in the mystic-state peak, this may be unacceptable, leading to some kind of effective loss of ...
In a message dated 3/3/2003 8:21:39 AM Pacific Standard Time, ... When practical is seen as being false, it is from the mind that is not allowed to rest within...
Though Reformed theologians have some variety of nuanced positions, the general spirit and mode of thinking is determinedly asymmetrical and characterized by...
The language center resides within a very small portion of the brain, where it receives imput, interprets, translates, and then directs all output, dependent...
There are degrees of genuineness in religion. The simple idea of low and high religion can be usefully extended to contrasting low, medium, and high religion....
Michael, Do you see entheogens in the yogic / vedantic / shaivite literature? It seems to me that a survey of the world's spiritual literature shows that the...
Let it be clear that anything that is helpful, entheogenic and not, for human lives to remember the true essence of being, reflected through words and actions...
From what I've read, Salvia is so perfect, so efffective, like taking the peak window from a twelve hour altered state session, that it gives insights that ...
Enlightenrnent is an off shoot of all religious endeavors.....It is a means of someone holding something over an other. It is the placing of a label, action...
Wilber characterizes Boomeritis as some sort of narcissism. I think of Boomeritis as ordinary egoic deluded thinking, with ordinary clueless religiosity,...
There have been regular complaints about postings that lack an effort to provide comprehensible content, so I added the following to the posting rules. Vague,...
Earl Doherty (JesusPuzzle.com) and the other scientific rational atheist skeptics have done so much to show that literalist Christianity is incorrect. But that...
It is easy to mistake high myth and ultimate rationality for low myth and irrationality. Ken Wilber's idea of the pre/trans fallacy explains this mistake, but...
Truth can't be moderated, as by a discussion group moderator. It wouldn't make literal sense to talk about "moderating truth"; the word "moderate" isn't used...
... [should be "free will"] ... experience of no-free-will, is not an absolute proof of no-free-will. However, the ego-death experience is a real phenomenon...
Transcendent rational justification for returning to using the irrational ego after discovering its essentially illusory nature ... this is, or amounts to, or...
May ones construct be the bounds of ones self May ones self be the illusion of ones being Attraction governs the fruit of existence The change of life moving...
Hi, I joined this group some time ago. When searching, I apparently have never posted here, although I believe I carried on a brief e- mail chat a few years...
Toward a viable model of how religious literalism overshadowed entheogenic mysticism and the entheogenic origin and vital fountainhead of myth-religion. ...
This proposal can be called "the entheogenic theory of the origin of religions<<<<< This is intersting to read, because to succintly state there is such a...
... always "really" been about entheogens and not literalist elements. Much of the work of paradigm definition concerns defining what exactly is meant by that...
Although poetry is not encouraged here and that is respected, they still are words that come from deep within.....This one is shared in reflecting upon world...
Poetry is off-topic and not allowed unless there is an *explicit*, comprehensible tie-in to the stated topics. For example, acid-rock lyrics without analysis...
Mushrooms and Mankind: The Impact of Mushrooms on Human Consciousness and Religion James Arthur http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1585091510 The...
... ... So to postulate this theory [the entheogen theory of the origin of religion], one is really attempting to convince others in an academic mode. That's...
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