Re: MD Static and dynamic aspects of mysticism and religious experience

From: MarshaV (marshalz@charter.net)
Date: Thu Apr 07 2005 - 14:31:33 BST

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    Sam,

    I was surprised by the root meaning. It sounds sooooo static. But, of
    course, static quality is not intrinsically bad. I feel neither bound to
    or unbound from my culture. I do think at the moment Western culture is
    mostly in a harmful state. I also think that those who have had spiritual
    responsibility for the culture should be held accountable.
    >Sam:
    >I'm all in favour of not being bound by the social level etc. It's what
    traditional
    >Christian language calls 'the world'. I just don't think you have to make
    a great drama out of
    >it, and once you've recognised it and have started along a higher path,
    you don't have to
    >keep revisiting it and defining your identity by that transition -
    another thing which I think
    >Protestant culture, especially in the US, succumbs to.

    Wasn't Jesus supposed to have gone into the temple to chastise the
    money-changers? And after being at the mountaintop, Jesus was not content
    with the status quo. In terms of a different mythology Jesus would have
    shouted "The Emperor has no clothes!!"

    Marsha

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