Re: Monasticism and Mysticism

From: L C <lightcastle_at_dnX3DLfJ1q50zosR0khfN3KO5kCsPYq5UchthabjaTAYrhA4cHjrFYwc5IgBSqoF>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:56:21 -0500

  Greg Stafford wrote:
>
> Animists see the otherworld as *that is* filled with things *entities
> that *have
> *at least the rudiments of *personality individuality and that you *can
> sometimes *control.
>

And sometimes you don't control then, you negotiate. (Well, all the spirit-talkers I've ever hung out with have included negotiation among their tactics, anyway.)

> Thiests see the otherworld as *that is* filled with processes and entities
> (of Nature, society, our people, and the greater cosmos,) some of
> which have
> personality and that you can emulate.
>
> Sorcerers see the otherworld as *that is* filled with things processes
> that
> do not have personality and that you can sometimes control.
>
> Mystics see see the otherworld world as filled with things that do not
> really matter, whether they are entities, processes or states of being,
> except when they help in this world and do not impede movement to the next
> one too much. have personality and that you emulate.
>
> All generalizations are true, but inevitably false in particulars.
>

All Cretans are liars!!

(Wait, that's something else. ^__^)
LC