Barry writes snipped: And again, you are assuming the "unenlightened" model, which believes that "progress" *has* to be "made" "towards" enlightenment. If you shift to another equally accurate model and description of the process -- that everyone is always already enlightened and that the *only* thing that marks "enlightenment" is a realization of what has always already been going on -- then there is no "progress" possible.
TomT: The reason it is called ignorance is that one actually is able to ignore that which they always have been and will always be. It is not called stupid or smart or arrogant or gratuitous or a lie it is called IGNORANCE. Name and form.
