by cutsinger | Mar 14, 2009 | Uncategorized
Several correspondents have inquired about the upcoming Common Word conference at the University of South Carolina, which I mentioned in my last post, “Esoteric Ecumenism”, so I thought I should provide some additional information. This is one in a series...
by cutsinger | Feb 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
I agree that esoteric ecumenism is “necessarily elitist”, though I would be quick to add that “learned” is the wrong word to describe the elite in question. After all, an esoterist need not be a Ph.D.’d scholar who has read many books....
by cutsinger | Feb 10, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m currently teaching my “Introduction to Religious Studies”—an essentialized approach to the key doctrines and spiritual practices of the world’s major orthodox religions—and I gave the students an opportunity last week to pose...
by cutsinger | Jan 31, 2009 | Uncategorized
Thank you for sharing your experience working with this hospice patient. What you said of your final conversations with the woman reminded me of something C. S. Lewis wrote shortly after the death of his great friend Charles Williams. It was not that his friend had...
by cutsinger | Jan 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
I believe you’re making this much more complicated than it needs to be. By its very nature, a mantray?na gives us a sacred object upon which to concentrate, namely (in our case) the Name of God. But we don’t need to “narrow our consciousness by an...
by cutsinger | Jan 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
You want to know whether the following is a threat to Anselm’s ontological argument: 1. The only way to prove something a priori is if its opposite is a contradiction. 2. If something is a contradiction, it is inconceivable. 3. Everything can be conceived not to...
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