--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "L B Shriver" > [...] > > > > [Not a trick question:] Do you see the movement having any > significant effect on world > > consciousness at the moment? If not at this time, when was the last > point at which you felt > > you could observe something of significance? > > Not a trick question: How would you know?
******** As I understand things, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to "know" in any epistemological sense. However, there is a subjective sense in which one "knows" as a form of feeling, usually justified by something one observes in the environment. I observer such-and-such, thus I know this-and-that. The classic response of Vedanta is contained in the story of the crow landing in the palm tree, in which the teaching offered is that when sees the coconut fall subsequent to the crow's landing, one should not assume a causal relationship. In other words, I was asking Judy's opinion, with no preconceived ideas about what it should be. L B S 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/
