Letters to the Editor
kenkapkk
Published Letters: 120 Editor's Choice: 13
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Yawn. Here again?
[Read the article: Manufacturing belief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Here we are again. Salon highlights another atheist. Wow. Two in one week. Last time it was Hitchens. This a recurring pattern, like the loop in "Groundhog Day". Who is the next prominent scientist/philosopher/social critic/(sic) iconoclast Salon can feature that just really has it down that this "God" thing, whatever it is, is a man made construct and of course , by attacking constantly the straw man of organized religion, that bad , bad thing, we can stay in a primitive stone age of our materialist world view. And avoid the reality that some exploration of consciousness beyond the navel of our intellect and senses might actually yield something fertile and of value.
I love Salon, but this blind spot and adherence to this point of view is becoming quite irritating. In a way it is sad to see the closed mindedness and fearfulness of this editorial group around this subject.
What Salon sees as cutting edge is frankly abject denial of one of the most important developments of the last century when explored in a grounded manner.
As one who has great experience in these things over 35 years, you are so off the mark it is sad.
I expect better. In the future I'll have to ignore this strange obsession the way I ignore right wing writers because what you constantly focus on here is irrelevant to any enlightened or meaningful discussion.
Dawkins, Wolpert, Hitchens, et al don't have a clue. Really. Wolpert "knows" we made it all up out of need? Then the countless mystics and those who have had profound mystical experiences are just delusional aren't they? Except for the pesky fact they're so damn consistent-throughout **centuries** and across all cultures. Actually it is Wolpert, et al who are delusional. Why are these people "authorities" to write about? Do you have the courage to investigate this from another lens?
You see, Descartes said "I think, therefore I am". But he had it backwards. The truth is "I am, therefore I think."
Infinite Consciousness (which in relative primitive terms is called "God", and thought of as "other") is a priori to thought, which it begets through intellect in its temporal aspect. Its qualities, and beingness beyond qualities, transcend thought, which is its instrument. Its just that damn language problem and doctrine thing that humans do that can screw things up.
But we are growing out of that on the true (not bogus) cutting edge. Get with the program. You could have a lot to offer here. Right now you offer nonsense.
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P.S. to Yawn
[Read the article: Manufacturing belief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the way folks, its not *belief*. Its *experience*. Its real. Either you're open or you're not. It has nothing to do with belief structures or doctrine.
P.P.S. The finite mind cannot comprehend the eternal.(Where it came from, how it began, etc.) That's not a dodge.
Its just the way the wiring works at this level.
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Lost in all this
[Read the article: The stone is cast]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]One one level, good riddence. Thhs hateful reflection of our worst shadow. But there's another issue. Men like Falwell don't exist in a vacuum. As a wise man once said, if a madman walks off a cliff and twenty million follow, is the madman to blame?
Falwell was and is, as many are, a distubing mirror into the perverse psyche of much of America. Underneath his false pieties (which he may have delusionally believed), there exists the troubling reality of the relentless drive and need for power that dominates so much of American life.
How we come to terms with these contradictions and primitiveness is an extraordinarily complex conundrum. The conflict within the country's soul is reflected in men like this.
My hope is that their influence is on the wane but it will be a gradual process of deterioration.
What a strange mix this country is where insanity often is the norm.