Re: mysticism

From: Robin Faichney (robin@reborntechnology.co.uk)
Date: Fri Sep 15 2000 - 15:07:02 BST

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From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk>
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 09:02:16AM -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> On 09/14/00 13:21, Robin Faichney said this-
>
> >> *A belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual or intellectual
> >> apprehension that are central to being and directly accessible by
> >> subjective experience.*
> >
> >Beyond perceptual apprehension yet directly accessible by subjective
> >experience? I don't think so!
>
> Straight from Webster's.

OK, then Webster's wrong. A mystic would certainly doubt the value of any
"intellectual apprehension", but not that of perceptual apprehension.
Indeed, most mystics would probably view perceptual apprehension as
being entirely "central to being" -- thought that's not an entirely
felicitous phrase. (And I think "realities" needs more context than
this to be meaningful.)

I'd guess that's rather an old edition of Webster's -- 1913, by any
chance? -- in which the then current Christian emphasis on transcendence
at the expense of immanence has muddied the waters.

-- 
Robin Faichney
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