bananabrain
awkward squadnik
i yield to nobody in my admiration for and espousal of the jewish mystical tradition. in fact, in my experience it is the mystical traditions of all belief systems that are generally the most open-minded and accepting of practical diversity through their attempt to speak to universal human values. as the sufis say, "there are many roads up the mountain".
karen armstrong always says, "mystics tend to agree". what is specifically getting my goat at the moment is the *way* that mystics tend to agree and what they say when they do.
in short, why is it that people who are "into mysticism" spout such utter BILGE? such utter CODSWALLOP? why is so much of it indistinguishable from the platitudinous ullage and hogwash that emanates from the uncritical and uneducated peanut gallery of the so-called "new age"?
if i hear one more disciple of enlightenment talk about us being "beings of light", "love to all" or other such feculent, bloodless gobbledigook, i shall do me raving nana. does anyone remember the dilbert.com "mission statement generator"? i swear, we should build one for new-age mystics.
does anyone else feel like this? how do we tell the enlightened from the merely light-of-intellect? the meta-rational from the irrational? the untrammelled from the untroubled-by-coherence? the free from the content-free?
b'shalom
bananabrain
karen armstrong always says, "mystics tend to agree". what is specifically getting my goat at the moment is the *way* that mystics tend to agree and what they say when they do.
in short, why is it that people who are "into mysticism" spout such utter BILGE? such utter CODSWALLOP? why is so much of it indistinguishable from the platitudinous ullage and hogwash that emanates from the uncritical and uneducated peanut gallery of the so-called "new age"?
if i hear one more disciple of enlightenment talk about us being "beings of light", "love to all" or other such feculent, bloodless gobbledigook, i shall do me raving nana. does anyone remember the dilbert.com "mission statement generator"? i swear, we should build one for new-age mystics.
does anyone else feel like this? how do we tell the enlightened from the merely light-of-intellect? the meta-rational from the irrational? the untrammelled from the untroubled-by-coherence? the free from the content-free?
b'shalom
bananabrain