When mistakes are discovered and trust is broken we return to these three levels. The self-evident tension is then able to resolves its self, and we purify our intentions. Ironically, if there is no harm intended to self, others, and God, then the pregiven spirit is able to find itself even as it falls into slumber and makes mistakes. We correct our mistakes, and trust is won again. We are no longer ticklish of the other when the trust returns, but even a ticklish flight indicates an innate vitality that has to do with the lesson of threes that must be brought into focus again.

Likewise, we remember Kant’s third antinomy and avoid heated arguments, and note the strangeness of the heat generated that has to do with feelings. The heat strangely pulls ourselves into the antinomy, the heat lets us navigate the transcendent, but we must remember the above three-point principle that permits error recognition in heated conflicts.

This exemplifies my problem (among many others) with the Cohen/New Age types. Notice how their language is too vague and excessively metaphysical/mystical to mean anything. You never get a sense of what they’re talking about when they refer to “ego,” “enlightenment,” “ground of being,” “transcendence,” etc. This usually indicates to me that either they’re snake oil salesmen who are taking advantage of people’s fantasies about “spirituality” or that they’re delusional.

True freedom is discovered when the spirit is able to identify with something beyond the ego. Such a spirt escapes the ego with its narrow reductionism. It finds freedom and is able to transcend. Transcendence is enlightenment. It is Cohen’s evolution as much as I can tell.

I contend that there is much value it talking about Cohen. There is value because there is much virtual in learning how to agree to disagree with grace. The rightness of Cohen claims as said guru is less of an issue here. What is important is that we can debate Cohen positions with the highest level of grace.

Likewise, the rightness of Darwinism is also less of an issue. The issue returns to the grace of debate that no longer sees the spoils going to the fittest victor. Ironically, with this enlightened debate the wrongness of Darwin’s theory is revealed. In as much that Cohen is willing to sacrifice his claims for a greater vision beyond his ego then that would demonstrate his enlightenment independent of what he says.

Give me a break. These characters caricature themselves. Cohen’s magazine is called “EnlightenNext” for crying out loud. Actually, I have my suspicions that Cohen is actually a comedian who created this elaborate hoax in order to parody the New Age movement. If so, then he would top Sokal and I might actually have some respect for him.