by dan Sat Aug 15, 2020 7:01 am
If U wants to take up space, he is invited to do so on his own thread.
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Lachman speaks often of the perennial philosophy that is alleged to provide the common core of the various traditions.
In my own estimation, this core is necessarily ill-defined.
Let’s take a closer look.........
Ok, we have Neoplatonism and a universal transcendentalism, with the Parmenidean One lying at the center.
This, of course, leaves out Buddhism........ with the none at the center...... instead of the whole, we have the hole
....... the Abyss.
Calling it an Abyss, though is to personify it in a negative sort of way....... a via negativa, of sorts.
An infinity of empty space is an abyss, but it does not capture the abyss of the psyche.......... the dark night of the soul.
Which is more intimidating?
With the One or the Abyss, there is something transpersonal.
With the technological Singularity, we have something Transhuman.
Short of all that, we simply have that life is an absurdity in a meaningless universe.
1430.........
This existential cri-de-coeur makes way for the plethora of postmodern pluralisms........ cynicisms.
(cont........)
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