Well Stak has sort of opened the pandora box here. Don starts out with something he see as connected to developing spiritual awareness through a discipline as in Mormon commitment and a whole circus gets draggend in. There is Newton, calculus, alchemy, masonry, gnosticism Joseph Campbell and other Hindu inclined folks then Alister Crowley and Ron Hubbard. I am suprised Led Zeppelin has not made an appearance. Following information about the origional Perennial philosophy fellow there are followers of traditional religion , political conservatives a few stray fascists and god only knows what all else.doubtingthomas wrote: ↑Sat May 21, 2022 7:07 amDoesn't the Phantom God theory explain the Perennial Philosophy?Don Bradley wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 6:17 amAnd, as Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy and others have shown, they tend to arrive at a surprisingly consistent view of that transcendent, and of this world's relationship to it, despite wide variances in their cultural contexts.
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I am very interested in your opinion. I won't try to "debunk" your response, I promise.
I think this perception of spiritual meaning is so variegated that I suspect it consists more of human connectivity and not ultimate reality. People connect with each other in different ways which opens different characteristics for spirituality.
I think it is possible that this circus of varieties of experience has some clues to more fundamental spiritual reality but I would not be quick to think I had the fundamental picture all clarified.
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The phantom god theory may point out some interesting things but I would not begin to presume it covers the whole picture of human spiritual experience. The kind of religious experience it describes is rather foreign to me and different than much of these perennial philosopy concerns I think.