--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 17, 2005, at 9:44 PM, at_man_and_brahman wrote: > > > He's a writer on something > > he calls transgressive sacrality (TA), and, even > > though I'm a bright guy, his stuff is beyond > > my understanding. > > Do you "get" what Transgressive sacrality is all about? Once you > realize what he's talking about, you'll get it right away.
(Your tautology aside) not especially, and Sunthar seems utterly uninterested in engaging in a discussion that will reveal its mysteries to me or connect it to my present and past paradigms. Moreover, when I speak with him, he inevitably cuts me off two to three words into anything I say and goes on speaking his own thoughts. I eventually give up trying to converse and just listen until I grow bored or irritated. > > It's a good topic for TMO people to hear, being so hyper-sheltered and > cultic. I can say that I spent years studying Maharishi Vedic Science and never once heard a word like "Indology," at least until I started talking with Sunthar. I believe that you could get MIU PhDs in MSV in a room with Indologists and have virtually no commonality of language or concepts. Hand one of Sunthar's writings to the average MIU/MUM student, and he or she will feel pretty lost pretty fast. > > I've written a good number of articles on several of his lists--and > despite a really strong academic editorial policy--he has published all > of them. So I feel I understand him already somewhat. His writings > strike a real resonance in me, as do those of Elizabeth. > > Re: KS. It seems to me his connection there is largely in reference to > some research he did on Abhinavagupta's writings on theatre. Sunthar has a doctorate in aesthetics, and is an authority on Dear Abhi's theory of humor and aesthetics. Again, who at MIU/MUM has heard of Abhinavagupta? Maharishi doesn't talk about him, so he's off the radar. Yes, > plays, theatre. This is not too surprising if you are familiar with > Advaita Vedanta, since classic works on this school of non-dualism also > have sections on the 'world as theatre". > > -V. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
