*chuckles* Touché.. I think the current trend is known as "integral Spirituality", spear-headed by Andrew Cohen and Ken Wilber. (EnlighteNext Magazine). Sort of a meta-physical, mathmatical new age movement centered on "consciousness". Other devotées include Barbara Marx Huibbard, Depak Chopra amd a host of inter-faith leaders which include zen monks and even Gempo Roshi. I'll share more on this topic later, as Bill offered some intriguing thoughts.. I wish it were a rainy day here today. I'm ready for a season change. Kristy
--- On Mon, 9/13/10, roloro1557 <[email protected]> wrote: From: roloro1557 <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Practical Mysticism - Evelyn Underhill To: [email protected] Date: Monday, September 13, 2010, 1:17 AM The "New Age" movement (in the US at least) is also partly responsible for this. Also (at least in the US) spirituality is commoditized like everything else and every 10 years or so there is a new spiritual fad. In the 80's Native American spiritual tradition was all the rage, then in the 90's it was Celtic. . . I don't know what it is now because I haven't been paying any attention (happily). On a broader cultural level anything Asian has been "hot" here in America for probably at least the last 20 years- art, food, spiritual, cultural ideas, etc. But it is all very shallow and most Americans have no real grasp of the deeper meanings. The label of "culture vulture" is very true of many if not most Americans in my observation. And yes, I'm an American, just in case anyone was wondering. . . . Artie
