--- In [email protected], "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote:
An extreme POV like scientific materialism is an easy straw man to knock over. And characterizing POVs as insane seem a bit much. But Wilbur is a fan of using physics poetry to make his ideas sound more concrete so I really don't know what he has to complain about. He seems happy to use terms of hard science to boost the credibility of his own assertions. > > > > Curtis: > > His understanding that there are many states of mind > > experienced by meditators or people doing traditional > > spiritual practices that we don't understand and > > should study... > > > "And tell me: is that story, sung by mystics and sages > the world over, any crazier than the scientific > materialism story, which is that the entire sequence > is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, > signifying absolutely nothing? Listen very carefully: > just which of those two stories actually sounds totally > insane?" > > 'A Brief History of Everything' > By Ken Wilber > Shambhala, 2007 > Page 42-3 >
