--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartaxius@> > wrote: > <snip> > > Spiritual development, call it what you will, seems directed > > to allowing a person to have a single irrefutable experience > > that settles the matter of the mystery of existence on the > > basis of their own direct experience. > > Or to have their experience change permanently.
Yeah - its great to have an aha! once in awhile, but the most practical value is one of permanent, ongoing change. :-) > > > This seems to have practical value, at least for the curious. > > I'm not sure "settling the matter of the mystery of > existence" is all there is to it (or even necessarily > part of it), especially in terms of practical value, > but close enough for now. Seems like the only mystery ever solved is that the mystery is never solved.:-) > > > The story, the mythology, spun around this singularity seems > > without end. Are we missing something? > > When a person has any kind of unusual experience, even just > an unusual sensory experience, they frequently want to talk > about it, to share it with others, sometimes on a comparative > basis if there's a possibility others have had similar > experiences. Isn't that pretty much a feature of human > nature? In any case, I'd guess that's how the stories and > mythologies get started and then expanded and perpetuated. > Exactly.:-) > What do you think we're missing? > > > Speaking of material facts, the Japan earthquake moved the > > main island about 2.4 metres, or about 8 feet, and shortened > > the length of Earth's day by 1.8 microseconds (we're spinning > > a bit faster now - is this somehow related to discussions on > > this forum?). I heard that too - I can't imagine the entire island of Japan shifting eight feet. That, and the immensity of this catastrophe is incomprehensible. > > Heh. That's all we need here, faster spinning! >
