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Originally Posted by v3d4
why that sounds like pluralism
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in many ways yes. i do think however that many religions have diverged from this one universal truth. their mystical cores all witness the same truth, but as this gets turned into belief and dogma it often turns away. i won't venture to say which religions though because i don't consider myself
that knowing
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Originally Posted by SageTree
There is a collection of essays by Huxley called " Huxley and God"... you might enjoy reading this, if you haven't already.
He also wrote a book called " Perennial Philosophy", which you might also be familiar with, as I'm not sure what you're being exposed to in your philosophy classes you mentioned in another thread, assuming you weren't joking about your BS in bs  . |
I've actually just recently started Huxley's book, and other books about mysticism. Before that my main exposure to mysticism was focused on yoga, tantra, etc and before that Daoism. I wasn't joking about the ba is bs, i decided to take what i want to study instead of training for whatever job i end up with. my acceptance of world religion and the diversity of beliefs has grown a lot in the past couple years, that alone makes it worth it in my book
Thanks for the suggestions, i'll have to take a look at those. you'r op was really interesting, i'm glad to have a little more exposure to christian mysticism now as that seems to get glossed over/drowned out by the non-mystical aspects.