Hi DMB:
> Emphasis is Wilber's...
> "Thus, genuine spiritual experience (or spiritual Enlightenment) as it
> displays itself in the political arena is not prerational mythic belief but
> rather as transrational awareness, which, BUILDING ON THE GAINS OF LIBERAL
> RATIONALITY AND POLITICAL LIBERALISM, extends those freedoms from the
> political to the spiritual sphere. Thus, spiritual or transrational
> awareness accepts the general tenets of rational political liberalism (not
> prerational mythic reactionism), but then, within those freedoms, pursues
> spiritual Enlightenment in its own case; and through the powers of advocacy
> and example, encourages others to use their liberal freeedom - the
> Enlightenment of the West - in order to persue spiritual freedom - the
> Enlightenment of the East." KW 212
I don't have a copy of Wilber's "The Marriage of Sense and Soul" but
presume when he refers to "liberal" in the paragraph you cite above he
is talking about the original meaning of the term--advocates of
individual freedom--as opposed to the meaning in common use today--
advocates for government control of resources and redistribution of
income.
I make this presumption based on Wilber's other writings where he
takes modern day liberals, such as the feminists and the greenies, to
task.
But, I could be wrong.
Platt
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