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By: Occult Investigator

Occult Investigator — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:06:00 +0000

That’s a great quote! I can’t remember if I ever read that volume or not. I should go back through those.

By: prunesquallor

prunesquallor — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:43:03 +0000

In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words. From witch doctor to priest to bureaucrat it is all the same. A governed populace must be conditioned to accept power-words as actual things, to confuse the symbolized system with the tangible universe. In the maintenance of such a power structure, certain symbols are kept out of the reach of common understanding — symbols such as those dealing with economic manipulation or those which define the local interpretation of sanity. Symbol-secrecy of this form leads to the development of fragmented sub-languages, each being a signal that its users are accumulating some form of power. With this insight into a power process, our Imperial Security Force must be ever alert to the formation of sub-languages.
Lecture to the Arrakeen War College by The Princess Irulan

Children of Dune, Frank Herbert

By: alistair

alistair — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 21:26:40 +0000

he does want to be recognised in scientific,scolarly and intellectual terms. the problem is that science demands repeatability. consciousness refuses to go into the lab. intellect and scolasticsm will but consciousness won`t. if i was a magician i would be afraid to go into a lab in case i disappeared along with my spells. the irony is that psychology falls down in the lab too. ken?

By: Arizona

Arizona — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:59:38 +0000

The question for me is not whether or not this is being done on purpose, but what Wilberâ€™s purpose is in doing it?

The most obvious answer is that he’s doing it to garner intellectual, scholarly, and even scientific credibility. He lacks that transparent spiritual authority that you find in people like Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, Rumi. I reckon that there is no value in any statement expressed in words of more than one syllable. Well, you know what I mean.