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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Rick Julian who wrote (25644)10/20/1998 6:46:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I more or less have no trouble with the contents of that post. While I haven't practiced meditation in any disciplined manner (and I readily concede that discipline is a precondition for effective meditation) I imagine it useful for clearing and focusing the mind.
Where I get hesitant is about meditative practice's utility in accessing the mystical union in any consistent manner. I worry that the mystical events/breakthroughs that occur in association with meditative discipline are so personal and subjective that they defy communication. They are hard to teach.
A general property of science is the setting and use of definitions. This rather requires that the described object/event is amenable to verbal description. Language hits a wall when confronted with the mystical. Poetry and music are powerfully evocative, but I submit the paradoxical thesis that their mystical affinity is a consequence of their avoiding clarity. The ambiguity, the interlocked allusion to meaning within meaning is the aesthetic force of art, but at the same time it is its Achilles' heel regarding any sort of rational approach to perceiving the Numinous.
Perhaps this is as it should be. The rational and the Real are not the same. One contains the other; putting the box into the contents is doomed to fail. If it succeeds, well then - it was a bad box. :-)
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