Comments on: Fallacies of Eastern Thought http://micah.sparacio.org/07/23/2007/fallacies-of-eastern-thought/ little pieces of joy in a great big universe Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Micah http://micah.sparacio.org/07/23/2007/fallacies-of-eastern-thought/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Micah Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:19:21 +0000 http://micah.sparacio.org/07/23/2007/fallacies-of-eastern-thought/#comment-10 "What you are left with is a selfish individual who identifies himself with the Universe and proceeds to act from a position of serene drifting between states, flutterings of fascination and utter disregard for the Other." I couldn't help but add that Charles Williams referred to this process/state as a "descent into hell". I can resonate with this because I had started the descent myself and recently had to be shaken out of it. “What you are left with is a selfish individual who identifies himself with the Universe and proceeds to act from a position of serene drifting between states, flutterings of fascination and utter disregard for the Other.”

I couldn’t help but add that Charles Williams referred to this process/state as a “descent into hell”. I can resonate with this because I had started the descent myself and recently had to be shaken out of it.

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