History, Evolution, and the Darwin Debate
Another comment on Tikkun/The New Atheists from MBFM
MBFM said,
July 11, 2010 at 10:29 am ·
I take breaks now and then, but try always to bring quality material.
PS full disclosure. I am Jewish on my dad’s side.
What I cant stand is bullying in any way shape or form.
And what bothers me yet [...]
MBFM (many posts at The Gurdjieff Con) has a comment re: Bo Scoffield and much material on that (more apt for The Gurdjieff Con, but welcome here too). We will repost/link at the Gurdjieff Con.
MBFM comment link
Be Scofield said,
July 7, 2010 at 11:11 am ·
My latest article:
“What Christopher Hitchens and the New Atheists Can Learn [...]
Enlightennext magazine in endless issues peddles the idea of the ‘evolutionary’, and the connection between ‘evolution’ and the ‘path to enlightenment’. About once every few months I try to scotch this confusion, not created, but amplified, by Cohen, who seems confused about spiritual teachings in general. He is a strange manufactured pseudo-guru with no spiritual [...]
An email exhange at cybalist@yahoogroups.com (Indo-European linguistics)Email to Cybalist: Danielou.
There are a series of further posts on the main page.
Is God Irrelevant?
Like it or not, since the 19th century, religion has lost most of its authority as the go-to place for our enduring questions, yearnings, stories and role models.
Note the way this statement starts with a ‘god’ issue, then speaks of religion in general. I think the authority of religion has increased since [...]
Danielou posts at The Gurdjieff Con
There are many posts at The Gurdjieff Con discussing Danielou, author of a useful history of India, and its religions.
The previous post today on Hinduism moves into terrain that is seeded with quagmires of all kinds.
It is a pity because Hinduism, so-called, has many elements that might serve a secular [...]
Scientific sitting ducks and ostriches
The mythology of scientism has backfired on the issues of ‘normal superstitions’, occult intimations, and the rest of the human spectrum of spiritual psychology. Attempts to sort out the mess can’t work if total skepticism is applied to realities that are all too real for many. The result instead is mistrust [...]
Shadow of a marxist Dalai Lama
It is a bit late in the day for this ‘marxist’ revelation from the Dali Lama. I hope there is still time for a, gasp, liberal democratic Tibet, instead of the ‘cowboys and Indians’ land grab from the Han Chinese in the name of leftist pieties, and the denunciations, a [...]
http://newhumanist.org.uk/2290/book-review-on-evil-by-terry-eagleton
Grayling reviews Eagleton’s new book. I won’t agree, disagree, but rather balk, for starters. I prefer not to be glib here. I need to bring up some notes on ‘radical evil’ and the Kant/Arendt commentaries. Here is Bernstein’s book on this:Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation, a somewhat murky, but highly useful and interesting, take [...]
I am a little puzzled by Hedges’ column this week: After Religion Fizzles, We’re Stuck With Nietzsche
An unfortunate piece of indirection, irony, or stupidity from a journalist I have followed for some time. What’s up here. Has Mr. Hedges lost his faith? Is he trying to get market share from the Dawkins groupies?
What is [...]
Tibetan ghostocracy
My neoligism here (is brilliant, no?) is a case of semantic desperation trying to get to the bottom of Tibetan political mystery, which is REALLY mysterious. The only possible hypothesis that it is authoritarian atheocracy (a second neologism: Tibet is often called a ‘theocracy’, but Buddhists are not theists, atheocracy would be better) [...]
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MBFM comment on Karmapa
MBFM raises the issue of the right ‘Buddhist dharma’ to pursue in the modern world. Original Buddhism is so elegant and simple that the steps would seem transparent, but they are not. Westerners rarely succeed at meditation, while Indians seem to know it all first hand. Deepak Chopra talks a good [...]
Comment on Karmapa article in Newsweek
mybrainisafleamarket is our invaluable researcher and commenter at The Gurdjieff Con blog, and you can read his many posts/comments by entering the tag MBFM, or the longer ‘mybrainisafleamarket’ in the search box. He has uncovered a whole bunch of stuff on gurus and everything else New Age.
My interest in Karmapa [...]
Comment at The Gurdjieff Con
It is hard to sort out the issues of Indian religion. But it might help for scientists trying to explicate religion, and never getting it right, to try and figure out the real history here. Instead of the barren speculations about evolution and religion. The primordial Shaivism of tantra/yoga stretching back [...]
Back to the Future
One of the holiest men in Tibetan Buddhism explains how his flock should straddle tradition and modernity
.Just at the point when Buddhism could be a potential source or religious clarification, the question of Tibetan lamaism, and its related issues, viz. the Karmapas, enter to confuse the picture with the occult obscurantism of [...]
From the Gurdjieff Con: Who needs aliens, modern man enslaved by Darwin propaganda
But far more dangerous psychic domination exists in the realm of religious occultism.
TAG for Bennett’s The Dramatic Universe selections scanned for The Gurdjieff Con
Although I won’t allow the material on this blog due to its slightly outrageous New Age evolutionism character, I nevertheless think it is worth reviewing J. G. Bennett’s postdarwinian construct, now more than a generation old,
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This month’s top post!!! http://darwiniana.com/2008/09/16/ibe-late-posting-today-so-read-this-art-evolution-and-the-tragic-genre/
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http://darwiniana.com/2010/03/22/coyne-just-doesnt-get-it/
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http://darwiniana.com/2009/02/22/one-gene-away-from-defeating-religion/comment-page-1/
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Comment on Fixing the Cosmos to Guarantee Atheism
James said,
March 8, 2010 at 3:06 pm ·
“The universe is a complex contradiction: it has many properties that suggest theism, as many that suggest atheism, and none that prove either viewpoint.”
Nice point and the reason why the ScienceBlogs/Dawkins crew and ID gang avoid this blog like the [...]
Update (read the original post first, below):
James’ comment on UFO’s (which I must shy away from) minds me to consider a related issue: the clear implications of transcendental idealism, Platonic ideas, and the potential to ‘exist’ in some sense in a body of consciousness of some kind. The latter science fiction idea appears on [...]