Andre,
I think somebody's identity slipped.
Marsha
On Sep 19, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Andre Broersen wrote:
> Frank in response to Marsha:
>
> What if mystical experiences are not a higher level of experience but a
> regressive, reduced, or more animalistic type experience?
>
> Andre:
> Well, not quite Frank. The Meeting of East and West, if I understand anything
> about Northrop's thesis at all, is about the difference of interpretation of
> experience,
> or rather the activity of experiencing itself.
> There is nothing 'mystical' about mystical/religious experiences. They are
> the reporting
> DIRECTLY of pure experience. The philosophies of the 'East' are based on this.
>
> The philosophies of the 'West' have been suspicious of this form of reporting
> (see ZMM) claiming
> them to be unreliable,passionate, whimsical, subjective etc etc. and have
> therefore mesmorized
> everyone by introducing the idea of (theoretical)'postulation' as a
> 'safe-guard' for entering into
> false avenues and representations....(of 'reality').
>
> It comes down to immediate experience (East) and experience by postulate
> (West).
>
> Or to perhaps slightly rephrase your terminology ('animalistic')=pure
> experience.(East)
>
> Postulated experience= through the theoretical grind.(West)
>
> Does this make sense?
>
>
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