--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Curtis for your quick response, and especially for not taking > offense in any way. That really speaks for you.
It was easy not to be offended since your post had some interesting points for me to think about. It would be unrealistic for me to expect that a person pursuing a spiritual path would just drop it when communicating with me. Of course you would view people with perceptual filters that you value just as I do. This discussion has been helpful for me in exploring where these filters interact. One of the values for me in posting here has been to challenge my own perceptual filters concerning people who are on a spiritual path. At first I noticed the differences more between us, now I see more of the similarities. This is important for me because in my personal filters, I place a high value on being able to see things about people who are very different from me that I can relate with and connect to. Prejudging overtly spiritual people is a flaw in my filters that I am working on correcting. Posts with sincere desire to communicate our differences respectfully are my medicine. Thanks for a dose brother! > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > Thanks for taking the time to respond in detail. I think you have > > brought out some very good points about our different world views. I > > do agree with your point about people's differences concerning > > talents, intelligence and skills. You have correctly noted that I do > > not recognize the same meaning value in some spiritual experiences > > that some here do. It is not because I can not relate to them, it is > > because I view their value differently. What it means is where we > > differ. I don't recognize that a person's inner experiences make him > > "higher" than me in any way. > > I see this 'higher' only in a contextual way. For example 'more > evolved towards a certain state of consciousness'. For example, > somebody could be from a completely different philosophy, lets say a > Dualist in the sense of Madhva. I could see that he is possibly very > advanced at his path, even though I differ from him about the ultimate > goal.And yet there are many common elements on the path. >
