>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <no_reply@>
wrote:
> > > --- In [email protected], Michael Dean Goodman
> > > <Tantra@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Dear Fairfield Lifers,
> > > >
> > > > Here's another eye-opening essay - some wild assertions and
> > > > mind-boggling possibilities about how different the past may
> > > > have been than the history that we've been taught -
> possibilities
> > > > about flying machines, space travel, nuclear weapons (and
> > > > beyond)... Food for thought. Might help with let-
> > > > ting go of the paradigm of history that we've imbibed and our
> > > > whole culture is immersed in.
> > > >
> > > > Enjoy
> > > >
> > > > Michael
> > >
> > > I think it was Chogyam Trungpa who said: "Those who
> > > have no spiritual reality are suckers for spiritual
> > > fantasy."
> >
> > Of course, regardless of the "real" history of the human race,
> > literally hundreds of millions of people in India accept this
> > stuff as true in some sense, so what you're really doing is
> > saying that all of them are suckers.
>
> Actually, all I did was post a quote from a Tibetan
> teacher, on the occasion of looking around at the
> plethora of "New Age" interests in Boulder and
> commenting to his students that the extent of one's
> interest in such things was, in his opinion, in
> inverse proportion to the breadth of one's spiritual
> experience. That is, the fewer real spiritual exper-
> iences one has had in one's life, the more likely
> one is to be attracted by New Age fantasies. And
> the converse; the more real experience one has had,
> the less likely one is to be interested in such
> things.
>
> If you feel that this extends to India and to Hindus,
> that's your call. I don't think Trungpa ever said
> anything about that, and I certainly didn't.
>
Nyah, you just quoted him, out of context, as your only comment on
some Hindu beliefs... Only a paranoid person would ever think that
you meant his comments to apply to what you were replying to...
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