by cutsinger | Dec 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
I can see from your letter that there are several rather serious errors in your thinking. First of all, you need to come to terms with the fact that all religions are made in such a way that their adherents think them the best, if not the only, means of salvation;...
by cutsinger | Dec 5, 2008 | Uncategorized
Why do I think most modern academic religionists are so opposed to perennialism? Because they’re mostly relativists, and perennialists are absolutists. Or, if you prefer, because most scholars are confused as to what is truly “abstract” and what is...
by cutsinger | Nov 30, 2008 | Uncategorized
Having started down a path toward Orthodoxy, you’re now having “second thoughts” and are thinking instead of a return to Islam. Do I know of any “similar cases”? It’s a strange coincidence—or so it would seem from our...
by cutsinger | Nov 21, 2008 | Uncategorized
Word is that administrators at La Trobe University in Australia have decided to scrap their thriving program in perennialist and traditionalist studies. Harry Oldmeadow, author of Traditionalism: Religion in Light of the Perennial Philosophy as well as a number of...
by cutsinger | Nov 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
What you describe is entirely normal, and your way of describing it is accurate, if a bit casual! The ego is indeed fighting against being “downsized”. Longer, more discursive prayers give the ego a certain amount of elbow room, as it were; we can...
by cutsinger | Nov 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
Believe me, I’m keenly aware of the problems you’re facing, and I thank God every day I’m not just starting out, as you are, in the college teaching business. May Heaven guard and defend you. For “business” is precisely what it’s...
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