In a message dated 2/1/2011 2:59:27 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ... M.C. The "Meadow of Truth" is actually a reference to Plato's Phaedrus 248b6 : *to...
Dear John, I'm in a hectic mode right now. Give me a couple of days to reply. I will be very elemental about this. Â I will not get into historical quibbles...
Thank you David. I did say wait for my fuller reply but I noticed all sorts of typos. I need a full screen and full keyboard! The worse one is about a...
I have some time today before family gathers to give me a birthday celebration. I'll speak a little bit more on some aspects of where theorizing, in the...
I've shared this with Buddhist groups, including some who were there to share it. Â Eikasia: as the power of imitative vicarious experience, under very...
Thomas, With reference to eikasia, your sentence (noting alliteration with sentience) that seemed most germane to me was: "A sesshin is a *mirror* held up to ...
David, Â The play of eikasia in the example was the first monk's worries about Buddhism as a nihilism; my playing it safe and not voicing I sort of had the...
Thanks, Thomas. So allegory is analogizing by telling stories? Does eikasia, therefore, include the sense of what the Buddhists call attachment, and,...
As a follow up to my last plug, the Prometheus Trust's US distributor ( www.openingmind.net ) should be receiving a stock of both the Anonymous Prolegomena and...
Melanie informed me he may not receive this post to the list. I want to inform everyone here who thinks ESP research died in the 1970s, it is still funded,...
Tim, I do not know if this work's current copyright prevents this or if Brill would release the work, but I would very much love to have available Majercik's...
Is there an English translation of the Calcidius commentary on the Timaeus? I can't find one. This would be significant for medieval Platonism. Jim Schumacher ...
Thomas, I always had the question what emptiness really means in Buddhism and what is the respective term/situation  in Neoplatonism. Specially the phrase...
Ushta Empedotimos, Darood, Well, since I've managed to piss off many on this list, what the hell. Let's begin with sunya alone. The range of its meanings...
Can you please explain in terms simple enough for me to understand how hallucinating that one is floating above an operating table equate to a universe of...
Ushta te Empedotimos, Darood, Before I go to bed, my wife looks over my shoulder. She remembers the Chinese Buddhist Abbott and meditation master we were both...
Hi Empi, I don't know about Buddhism, but the idea that we must empty ourselves - i.e., become without form - is important in Plotinus : cf. VI 7 33ff., VI 9,...
Hello Bradley, I don't believe I made any reference to string theory or quantum theory. As for NDEs, I have no special knowledge there. I commented on what...
So you're not able to answer my question. No doubt your brain has been addled by the stupefying bombardment of new age nonsense, mixing Buddhism, with science...
Thomas, Hypatia never pregnant? Nor were Aristarchus or Plato, yet all three gave birth. Womb and pregnancy have their serious philosophical symbol in the...
Bravo, Mike!! Having been filled up by virtue of the One, the return necessarily involves emptying out and thus is analogous to physical birth and the ensuing ...
Bradley, We all begin the quest in a state of ignorance. It starts with mixture in Protogonos, and gets more mixed up on the way down. Welcome to the club....
Empedotimos, Â Here is my fuller reply on the concept of emptiness in Buddhism with some references. I also note a number of comparisons that have been made...
... I'll say. One ought not to forget the "unspeakable wombs" of Hecate or Rhea in the Chaldaean Oracles (OC fr. 56). Michael Chase CNRS UPR 76 Paris-Villejuif...
Yes, David, I know that and there is also quite an amount of comparison of Orphic with Indian materials as well. There is also philosophical dialog as...
Dear Bradley, I'm not sure why you feel so strongly about my aside to John Smythies about NDEs. As I say, they're not a subject that I know a lot about. Nor...
David, Â To answer your questions, I first remind you that humans, including all their faculties which means eikasia too, can exist and function in the...
