--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Exactly. The timidity of people who have been taught > to believe the "experts" rather than trust their own > experience is continually frustrating. I find myself > wondering whether these folks will *ever* learn to > trust their own experiences. > > After all this time WHO CARES what TeacherX or > SwamiZ has to say about anything? On the other > hand, hearing what other seekers have to say about > their own subjective experiences might be inter- > esting, if they just weren't so afraid to express > them...
It may indeed be interesting, but there's a major drawback, which is that the translation of nonverbal experiences into words is inevitably imprecise, an approximation. If I describe an experience, my words mean one thing to me but may mean completely different things to other people--so I haven't really communicated my experience at all. Has nothing to do with not "trusting" one's own experiences or being "afraid" to express them. It's that *words* can't be trusted to express experience in a way that actually communicates it. And the deeper and more subtle the experience, the greater the potential disjunction between the experience and the translation into words. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/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/
