Re: MD Joseph Cambell

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2003 - 08:19:15 BST

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    Or the spiritual path is how you remove the distractions IN ORDER THAT you live simply in the
    present, and become fully present....

    Sam

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "james marshall" <edgarj@shaw.ca>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 4:44 AM
    Subject: Re: MD Joseph Cambell

    > DMB said:
    >
    > "He (Campbell) makes it apparent how necessary it is for each of us to take
    > the hero's
    > journey, to walk a spirtual path even in this scientific culture."
    >
    > All these people on "journeys and paths" - few it seem are contented with
    > here and now" which afterall, is all a man ever has. A man who follows a
    > path is seeking something other than reality which is always here and now.
    > Deal with the now. Deal with what is. Spiritual paths are avoidances! A
    > spiritual path is an "away from" which is fear. There is nothing wrong with
    > now.
    >
    > A man who is seeking something "better than" here and now never looks me in
    > the eye. His eye and attention are beyond this time and place where he
    > encounters me who is him. A man following a "spiritual path" therefore
    > hateful of me and himself. I discern nothing heroic in that.
    >
    > Jim

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