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- From: ttk@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (the troglodyte killer)
- Newsgroups: alt.magick
- Subject: Re: Myself and Magick
- Message-ID: <1er8ceINNivi@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:37:02 GMT
- References: <JOSHUA.92Nov22084718@bailey.cpac.washington.edu> <1992Nov22.192847.10167@wam.umd.edu> <JOSHUA.92Nov23000702@bailey.cpac.washington.edu>
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- joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov22.192847.10167@wam.umd.edu> angelai@wam.umd.edu
- >(Angela I.) writes:
- >> joshua@cpac.washington.edu (Joshua Geller) writes:
- >> >the important question to ask when you get into something like this is
- >> >this: 'are these past lives I am regressing to actual memories of past
- >> >lives, or just some interesting fantasy I am indulging in?'.
- >>
- >> However, if you use the experience (memory or fantasy) to learn to get
- >> in touch with deeper or formerly hidden aspects of yourself, the
- >> "objective reality" of the experience is pretty much irrelevant.
- >
- >I don't know that this is true; it tends, at the very least, to be
- >destructive of critical thought.
-
- So? Critical thought is not an end unto itself -- it is a
- tool, and appropriate to only a catagory of applications. What
- Angela has done is define a boundry of that catagory, saying that
- there are some cases where critical thought is inappropriate. Of
- course, the argument is not necessarily valid outside the bounds
- of this case..
-
- Another way of putting the argument: If the memories are of
- a bona fide past life, great! But criticism would serve to
- invalidate your resolve.. On the other hand, if the memories
- AREN'T of a past life, then they were generated by your own mind
- in response to some need. Criticizing the experience, deciding
- that the memories aren't "for real", and then using that
- conclusion as a basis for dismissing them out of hand (as has been
- Josh's habit for as long as I've read this newsgroup) leaves the
- need which your mind has brought to your attention unaddressed.
- Either way, criticism is counterproductive in this case.
-
- Your mind does what it does for a reason -- listen to
- yourself and act on what you learn.
-
- (And yeah, I'm back for a bit -- classes kept me away from
- continuing the threads I had going, but I still have copies of
- everything. If anyone wants to pick up where we left off, I'm
- willing to do so..)
-
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