Letters to the Editor
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The Spiritual Elite
The pro-Wilber posters here hint at something that has always stuck me about people who thump the tub for mysticism. We have a post here that says, 'you are either 'on or off' the bus.' Now this was obviously stolen from Ken Kesey. Ken was a writer on acid. Kesey's bus held a limited number of people. Just like the Jehovah's Witnesses or the Peoples Temple, or the Christian fundamentalists who are going to be Raptured.
We have another poster, just a little below this one, that commends Mr. Wilber with the 'erudite' obscure word play of a lunatic passing codewords through the Confessional transom. I.E., you and I mere mortals won't be able to get on either of these 'buses' because we don't know WTF they are talking about.("WTF" is code too!) And that is the essence of this, or the Scientology folks, or even the Mormons. Join the cult, get on the bus, drink the cool-aid, leave the rational world behind -and joint the spiritual 'elite' which 'knows' so much more than you crude, ignorant, reality-based fools. And, of course, there are only room for some ...
Are we that desparate to be part of a group? And maybe, yes, a 'leader' of one of these groups?
Reason and science are one of the only thing that all humans have in common, and what we share, and how we are able to bind ourselves as a world community in the modern period. Mysticism actually divides humans, as there are as many mysticisms as there are countries, or people.