by cutsinger | Jul 6, 2007 | Uncategorized
The criteria for assessment in my honors seminars are implicit in the syllabus, which describes each course as “a shared conversational inquiry” in which “a premium will be placed on precision, explanation, and defense” and in which...
by cutsinger | Jul 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
I quote from your message: “You state in your book of Advice to the Serious Seeker (as have other Traditionalist writers) that initiation into spiritual esoterism presupposes adherence to an exoteric path. Yet those who hold the reins of exoteric institutions,...
by cutsinger | Jun 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
I have looked back at the chapter in question—”Axioms of the Sophia Perennis” in The Transfiguration of Man—and I think the solution, though you have already said you do not find it satisfying, is simply that Schuon is writing with a western...
by cutsinger | Jun 21, 2007 | Uncategorized
With regard to your question, I am minded to use your own wording and reply koanically: what one must do is to “fight” the mind precisely by “joining with it” so as to “follow it gracefully back to the invocation”. In other words,...
by cutsinger | Jun 18, 2007 | Uncategorized
Thank you for sharing this very beautiful dimension of the “inner me”. It is clear that what you describe afforded you a veridical insight into the nature of things; I have never had any doubts on that score—doubts, that is, about whether you are...
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