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From: tim@unc.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: 'Time, Space, and Knowledge' - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 8-Jan-84 21:53:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  8 21:53:37 1984
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Rob Warnock's article was, simply, one of the best articles on net.religion
in a long time.  He warns of dangers that are real, speaks of practices that
do in fact work, and so on.  Those of all paths should be able to extract
valuable knowledge from this writing, although a non-trivial translation
effort may be needed.  For instance, the warnings at the end apply no less to
the classical Western astral voyager -- if he becomes enamored of his own
phantasms to the exclusion of the seeking of truly external entities, he
will remain forever bogged down in his own astral excrement, thinking
himself the recipient of all manners of wondrous initiations when in fact he
has not progressed beyond the "First Matter" or "Uninitiate" level.

We need more articles like this, and fewer like "You must accept my
worldview completely or you will be damned and suffer forever."  There is no
reason why Christians need to be publicly intolerant; they can write about
prayer and meditation techniques, or share those intuitions which the
ineffable Love of their Savior must confer (if the religion be valid).
Those who embark on this somewhat ecumenical course will come to find that
the methods of their paths are not greatly different from those of other
paths.  Through this, one may come to the true Highest Religion, which is
different for every one, yet always the same.
--
Tim Maroney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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