DB> To some extent I exaggerate and play devil's advocate here David. Our
 DB> culture has such a perjorative attitude twards altered mental states I
 DB> have a hard time trying to say that there is *some* real validity to the
 DB> experience without implying- that such truth is a
 DB> *replacement* for sober, rational analysis.
 DB> One of the questions Joseph Campbell posed was whether the mental
 DB> experience is an artifact of the species genome and not as random as
 DB> psychology, anthropology, and sociology have assumed.  What is more, is
 DB> whether these innate concepts carried in the genome are, in fact,
 DB> accurrate truths about the nature of being.  A dog knows how to hunt,
 DB> the man knows how to think- about cosmology, as well as many other
 DB> things, and are these innate ideas wrong?  I am not saying that they're
 DB> right, I'm saying they deserve consideration.
   That's what I mean by the "responsibility to listen."  Unless I'm way off
of the track YOU are moved by the same reality with its tensions between
immanance and transcendence as other human beings who have not allowed that
sensitivity for the tension to atrophy and paralyzed any ability as a 
hinking
being.  
   We should only become suspicious if (unlikely occurence) if our thought
becomes "the gospel according to Frank" or "the gospel according to Day."
THEN it would be time to become really worried and seek a balance!!!
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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