04.17.06
Armstrong and Dalai Lama
Sorry to keep harping on Armstrong, but she has wrecked the question of the Axial Age.
Karl Jaspers’ book isn’t even in print. My careful periodization structure to examine and approach its complex study, because it challenges Darwin, will have a hard time with the paradigm powers that be.
Armstrong will end up rich for this dishonest mess. A complete copout.
As I read her Great Transformation (before I gave up in disgust) I bet myself a nickel she had been the object of Buddhist svengali; Authors beware! Here’s the proof Finding my religion: caught in the act of platitude exchange with the Dalia Lama.
This proves nothing, as such, since the real mischief is something else. You have to figure it out for yourself, but, basically, celebrities are a resource too valuable not to tamper with.
Aleister Crowley will tell you all you need to know about that, although he never says anything straight. I will explain it sometime.
It is hard to say which gang is more insidious, the Buddhists or the sufis. I’d say the sufis.
Meanwhile don’t pay any attention to front office dummies like the Dalai Lama. They are like Prozac control. They are dangerous because they make you think Buddhists are lovey dovey compassionate teddy bears.
Maybe they will gobble up Armstrong, led away to be a dakini in Tibetan heaven.
Evidently Armstrong is an atheist. I am tempted to say, no wonder she can’t understand the Axial Age. To do that you must be neither a theist nor an atheist.
I was with the Dalai Lama in September, and he said to a Buddhist girl, a Buddhist American: “You know, really, you might as well have stayed Christian. There is no need to convert from one religion to another. They all teach the same. They all teach kindness and compassion.”
Darwiniana » How to read Aleister Crowley said,
April 17, 2006 at 11:39 pm
[...] Since I suggested reading Aleister Crowley I should offer some free advice in the ‘how to’ vein. I assume you have read all about Frodo the hobbit, but since you are determined or fated to be a gollum…. Assuming you have obtained his complete works, Rule #1: Don’t believe anything you read. His tactics of disinformation are atrocious. You will end up a two bit Faust for merely reading him, and get nothing in return… Rule #2: Don’t use any of his methods. Even if you are dumb enough to try them, they are all out of date, last century’s rosicrucian junk… [...]
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April 27, 2006 at 7:16 pm
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