Comments on: Divination & Meteorology http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/02/divination-meteorology/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:53:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jacob http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/02/divination-meteorology/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Jacob Sun, 03 Apr 2005 10:22:24 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/02/weatherman/#comment-17 The mystical/magickal dichotomy reminds me of another dual approach to enlightenment, which is found a lot in Indian spiritual practices. It's bhakthi/jnani. The bhakthi practitioner is concerned with devotion and yielding. The jnani is more intelelctually driven. here's a good site that really goes in-depth on this issue: http://www.jnani.org/jnani.html The mystical/magickal dichotomy reminds me of another dual approach to enlightenment, which is found a lot in Indian spiritual practices. It’s bhakthi/jnani.

The bhakthi practitioner is concerned with devotion and yielding. The jnani is more intelelctually driven.

here’s a good site that really goes in-depth on this issue:

http://www.jnani.org/jnani.html

]]> By: PitPat http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/02/divination-meteorology/comment-page-1/#comment-16 PitPat Sat, 02 Apr 2005 23:54:42 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/04/02/weatherman/#comment-16 I'm a tin-foil hatter of the leftist stripe from way back. Decoding and translation seem like apt metaphors for the study of the parapolitical; I know that my own motivations for such study are to solve the "unsolved mysteries" and to explain the "unexplained" to allude to two now-defunct television shows. Putting this idea together with your previous post on chaotic patterns... You do, I presume, know about chaos theory in science? If so, maybe this will make more sense. On a forum today I likened the study of the parapolitical to trying to determine what kind of boat has passed from examining its wake. Of course, all this decoding, puzzle-solving, interpreting, bringing order to chaos, etc. activity is part of my overall ambition: to obtain objective evidence of the reality of the phenomenal world, and indeed of the reality of my self. I can't be sure I'm not a construct of someone (or something) else's mind. I wish I could be sure, so I search for truths of a half-assed sort to try to fix my place in a (hopefully) phenomenologically real world. Problem is, I'm a deconstructionist, too, so it's all "play" and no "fixed places." Sigh. I’m a tin-foil hatter of the leftist stripe from way back. Decoding and translation seem like apt metaphors for the study of the parapolitical; I know that my own motivations for such study are to solve the “unsolved mysteries” and to explain the “unexplained” to allude to two now-defunct television shows.

Putting this idea together with your previous post on chaotic patterns… You do, I presume, know about chaos theory in science? If so, maybe this will make more sense. On a forum today I likened the study of the parapolitical to trying to determine what kind of boat has passed from examining its wake.

Of course, all this decoding, puzzle-solving, interpreting, bringing order to chaos, etc. activity is part of my overall ambition: to obtain objective evidence of the reality of the phenomenal world, and indeed of the reality of my self. I can’t be sure I’m not a construct of someone (or something) else’s mind. I wish I could be sure, so I search for truths of a half-assed sort to try to fix my place in a (hopefully) phenomenologically real world.

Problem is, I’m a deconstructionist, too, so it’s all “play” and no “fixed places.”

Sigh.

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