04.25.09
More crap from Enligntenext mag
Month after month the same recycled crap from Andrew Cohen, who is probably getting desperate, another issue on Sex.
I noticed an article on Swedenborg (I will have to read it for free in the bookstore when I get to Barnes and Nobles), The Buddha of the North.
Naturally, the mystic folks at Andrew Cohenville will do a Swedenborg number and omit any reference to Kant, the Sage of the North.
In all fairness, Kant studies suffer the reverse problem and too frequently omit the historical reference to Swedenborg when they discuss Kant’s critical system, or its history.
Thus students of Kant often fail to connect with the way in which Kant’s (bookish?) contact with, and critique of, Swedenborg is the backdrop to his famous and early Visions of a Ghostseer, and thus one of the stealth themes of those later critiques. Clearly Kant was interested/frustrated, and partly inspired/revolted by Swedenborg to adopt a critical stance toward the kind of false mysticism that Swedenborg (as far as I know) peddled ad infinitum. But Swedenborg, like so many, had a kind of mushy contact with a mysterious something.
Kant’s critiques are thus both unsatisfying to New Agers who are prime metaphysical basket cases, abetted by guttersnipes like Cohen, and discourses of last resort, after you have wasted many years on the bogus fronts produced by New Age spirituality peddlers, and, I fear, all too often Hindu spiritual gurus (whose entire tradition was ripped off, and Sanskritized, with the addition of the law of caste and the bogus Manu material of the Aryans tacked on).
This subterranean current in Kant is one of the beguiling open secrets of his biography and philosophical development, and is a tonic, or might be, for many New Agers getting overdosed by people like Wilbur, and Cohen. It is also an interesting duet of the north and an interesting and seldom told history. If I am not mistaken Kant’s term the ‘insensible world’ comes from Swedenborg.
Andrew Cohen is a pathetic case. He represents Neo-Brahminism with a Jewish face, caveat emptor, and was made into a fake Buddha to keep stupid gentiles in line. The conservative gurus of India think only Jews and Hindus have a spiritual potential, and treat all others as human garbage, very politely.
Thus spake the gurus of India. I fear they destroyed Cohen in the most subtle way possible. I feel truly sorry for him.
Moral: don’t hang around gurus waiting to get zapped. Don’t! NOT!
You reach ‘state 4′ (historical termiation) (forget the crap term ‘enlightenment’) ALONE, following your own way. And you have to fight the endless round of predators doing namaste as you go along.
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James said,
April 25, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Great…the New Age Larry Flynt. He might as well stop beating around the bush (no pun intended) and admit that he is a pervert.
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April 25, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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