--- In [email protected], "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "L B Shriver" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
snip > > Personally, I thought the course was a great experience. I doubt if > anyone outside the > > course even remembers it. Certainly it is not being cited in all > the journals as a profound > > feat of engineering in the domain of collective consciousness. > Needless to say, this is a > > typical cult phenomenon—the insiders believing that their every > breath shakes the world, > > the outsiders not even noticing. > > This is a valid point, but there are plenty of examples in the > scientific community of a study or even a mathematical technique > being ignored for years, decades (or even a century in the case of > the math) that later on are seen as ground-breaking. @@@@@@@@ True enough, point well taken. In a general sense, I think the "consciousness movement" will look better in retrospect than at its beginnings. On the other hand, I doubt that many of the other examples you refer to have had an amply-funded PR organization touting them, either. L B S ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
