--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Xenophaneros Anartaxius <anartaxius@...> wrote: <snip> > Spiritual development, call it what you will, seems directed > to allowing a person to have a single irrefutable experience > that settles the matter of the mystery of existence on the > basis of their own direct experience.
Or to have their experience change permanently. > This seems to have practical value, at least for the curious. I'm not sure "settling the matter of the mystery of existence" is all there is to it (or even necessarily part of it), especially in terms of practical value, but close enough for now. > The story, the mythology, spun around this singularity seems > without end. Are we missing something? When a person has any kind of unusual experience, even just an unusual sensory experience, they frequently want to talk about it, to share it with others, sometimes on a comparative basis if there's a possibility others have had similar experiences. Isn't that pretty much a feature of human nature? In any case, I'd guess that's how the stories and mythologies get started and then expanded and perpetuated. What do you think we're missing? > Speaking of material facts, the Japan earthquake moved the > main island about 2.4 metres, or about 8 feet, and shortened > the length of Earth's day by 1.8 microseconds (we're spinning > a bit faster now - is this somehow related to discussions on > this forum?). Heh. That's all we need here, faster spinning!
