On 2/7/2014 1:50 PM, salyavin808 wrote:
I would say it's typical superstitious thinking.
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In Hindu Advaita and Yogacara Buddhism you have an idealism which
asserts that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally
mental, mentally constructed, knowledge structured in consciousness -
for the TMers the basis of existence is intelligence and the perceptions
are immaterial. It is very challenging for anyone to try and refute the
idealistic POV of Kant where idealism manifests as a skepticism about
the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing.
Also, you should realize that the earliest extant arguments for the
world being a mental construct is from South Asia and Greece. According
to Ludwig, Hindu idealists like Shankara in India and the Greek gave
good and logical arguments for an all-pervading consciousness as the
ground or true nature of reality.a
