RE: virus: The other

Robin Faichney (r.j.faichney@stir.ac.uk)
Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:23:09 -0000


> From: Wade T.Smith[SMTP:wade_smith@harvard.edu]
>
> >everything (other than direct experience) is
> >"speculation".
>
> Interesting.
>
> I would of course say the exact opposite.
>
So what are you sure of, Wade, if not direct
experience? What you read in books?

> 'Direct experience' is of course, the crux. I see no need to have an
> 'experiencer'. Brett (and many more) hinge it all on the fact we are
> here
> experiencing. And what is 'direct experience'?
>
> Smacks of the mystic.
>
I bet you say that about everything you don't
understand.

> No Guru, No Mystic, No Teacher. (Van Morrison, the po' boy's
> Blake....)
>
Pity you misquoted him, then. It's "No Guru,
No Method, No Teacher". Maybe you were
thinking of "Into the Mystic". Despite that
title, I'm not sure you could call Van Morrison
a mystic, but Blake certainly was.

Robin