Hello everyone
DMB wrote:
An old Russian scholar once told me that if a person reads all of
Dostoevsky's novels they don't need a bible.
Hi David
Here's our problem: we are all like that old Russian scholar as long as
we stay locked into our comfortable intellectual patterns of value.
Couldn't a bible scholar turn this argument around and say: if you read
a bible, you don't need Dostoevsky? Think what each scholar is missing!
I am hesitant to jump into discussions of mind altering drugs and
whether or not such use is "proper". There seems distinctly moralistic
overtones to this discussion, almost bordering on Victorian in nature.
If mind-altering substances, used under proper guidance, can induce
life-changing enlightenment in some people, are these people "brainless
oafs who take hallucinogens"?
And let's say someone is serious about practicing zen daily, yet once or
twice a year might ingest large quantities of high grade LSD, mushrooms
or peyote. Is all that zen practice negated? All those hours wasted?
This zen is bogus zen?
Like our old Russian scholar who needs no bible, those who have yet to
experience a real mind-blowing trip will just never know what all this
Dynamic fuss is about. Too bad really.
Dan
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