Like "censored.htm" not everybody's cup of tea: not "robots=all" but "robots=swot"
"mac=migration authorisation code" "swot=analysis of strengths weaknesses opportunities threats"
"Like the seed that grows into a tree, open our eyes to the new vision as green leaf sprouts awaken to blue sky; nurture us in the sunlight and rain of your Truth; make us strong like the tall tree with leafy branches mothering those who need protection from the storms of poverty and injustice; Oh Holy Spirit, make us One with you; deepen our roots I+N nature, history and culture..." (Korean prayer translated by Marion Kim)
"Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Suffer me not to be separated from thee. From the malicious enemy defend me. In the hour of my death call me and bid me come unto thee, that with thy saints I may praise thee for ever and ever."
The colour photograph of the Vampire Mark-11 shown above is a slightly modified copy of that included in Anthony Spiteri's 2005 copyright © illustrated and informative guide to the Malta Aviation Museum, Ta' Qali. Of related interest: Mark A. Vella, editor, Sink The Illustrious - The ordeal of a nation to save the carrier, January 1941 (English - Maltese bilingual edition: Bieb Bieb Enterprises, 2000).
"That ye will that other men do not to you, do ye not that to other men. From this one doom (law or judgment) a man may think that he should doom every one rightly; he need keep no other doom-book." - King Alfred (849 - 901)
c. 1912 the Socialists' Party, 16 Wood Street, Bolton, Lancashire, U.K., published a postcard version of the Socialist Ten Commandments then used in all Socialist Sunday Schools, where the children were required to commit them to memory:
Racism may be defined as "an unjust situation, in which one group has an unequal place in society, suffering from a persistent pattern of prejudice, discrimination and disadvantage which is slow to change and rooted deep in the psyches and systems of a society dominated by another group." Racism = genocide = ethnic cleansing = exclusion = no justice.
According to Benedictine Monastery of Christ in the Desert's nextscribe Brother M. Aquinas Woodworth the Catholic Church "could become extinct if it falls behind the rest of society and doesn't start using digital media" (.net, September 1998, p.32). "A primary mission is to fulfil the intimacy of love that exists silently between G-d and the person, and in community between persons." Cf. ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE, The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal (London: Redman, 1909, reprinted: ISBN 0-911662-54-5).
"No blame, no condemnation, no criticism, no judgment, no resentment - just love. A state of love growing, developing, extending itself from the deepest level of the person which is me. I let my love go to the whole human race, without distinction of race, creed or colour. I let my love go wherever it is needed most, without knowing where or to whom. Always a love which awakens growth. One with myself, one with each member of the human race, in love, in that love G-d is one with me I+N Christ in the depths of my being." - Terence O'Brien, SDB, Living in Personal Relationship with G-d (Guild of Saint Dominic Savio, 34 Orbel Street, London, SW11, 1993).
Aset t fem. det. shm
s w "go, walk" det. plural sign Aset
PETER PLICHTA, G-d's Secret Formula (Element, 1997).CHRISTOPHER E. STREET, Earthstars - The Visionary Landscape: Part One, London - City of Revelation, 2nd and enlarged edition (Hermitage Publishing, 2000) includes a photograph of the Parish Church of St. Mary The Virgin, Monken Hadley, which Street relates to the poet and mystic, Charles Williams's location of Camelot: "Through Camelot, which is London in Logres, by Paul and Arthur's door" - possibly at Camelot Moat, a mere two miles away, where Street himself once experienced a brief but impressive vision of Isis-Mary as an approximately 60'-tall "white lady" in the skies; others are inclined to associate the possibility of such an occurrence, no matter how precisely it may be explained, with buried megaliths, water and particular times of year. The Christian monks who later came to Monken Hadley may have been continuing a tradition of sacred use for that site which is of much more ancient origin, and St. Martha's Convent-School is well located.
DEREK S. ALLAN & J. BERNARD DELAIR, Cataclysm - compelling evidence of a cosmic catastrophe in 9500 B.C. (Gateway Books, 1997).
ISAAC NEWTON VAIL, The Misread Record, or The Deluge and its Cause, being an explanation of the Annular Theory of the formation of the earth, with special reference to the flood and the legends and folk lore of ancient races, 2nd and revised edition, reprinted with a Prologue and Epilogue by Professor Hilton Hotema (Health Research, Pomeroy, WA, 1965).
LAURENS VAN DER POST, Jung and the Story of Our Time (Penguin, 1978, p.150 - "Ghosts... do not portray the uneasy dead, but prefigure life as yet to come."); Yet Being Someone Other (Hogarth Press, 1982) - "Meetings between different cultures, particularly of so-called civilised and so-called primitive men, are events of the most traumatic and fateful consequences, as immense as they must be unforeseen and irreversible." (p.25.)
"... I began my study of Japanese with the purser. The first character he taught me was that of a tree, perhaps feeling prompted to establish that what was about to happen between us was to be not an act of will and mind so much as a growth from roots deep in the dark and mysterious earth. The very first word I learn from him was 'sensei': master or teacher. And it is as both master and teacher, in the indivisible connotations they had for the ancient Chinese and architects of the Japanese Renaissance, that he remains in my grateful memory. That classical concept had innumerable implications of great significance. It presupposed that a person could be a master to others only through continue seeking of the truth and humility of his own teaching. Someone could only teach others through what he had taught and mastered in himself. So ultimately, of course, he taught even more by living example than by words... Japanese, as I now began to learn it, appeared firmly connected with its aboriginal beginnings and tended, to my delight, to express reality more in terms of feeling than in ideas and intellectual abstractions, at which the Chinese excel. For instance, in writing 'tree'..." (pp.128-9.)
"Once the Japanese knew their 'position. they seemed in no need of orders... My teacher told me about one of the most profound and pivotal concepts produced by civilization: the concept of 'Li'. Originally (and 'originally' in terms of the Chinese who first evolved it meant going almost as far back as the conscious spirit can go without losing altogether its consciousness), Li meant sacrifice and the ritual and ceremonial that proceeded from the exercise of sacrifice. But for my 'sensei' and those humble deckhands who began their day bowing to the rising sun, it meant outwardly the observation of courtesy and good manners in human relationships; and also ritual and grace for acknowledging the presence of the Gods which, as the relevant ideogram graphically implied, represented that which was above. Courtesy to man, and the ritual that was courtesy to the Gods, were one at source, so that not surprisingly within, it was a transcendental ethos which inspired the morality that alone could impose order on the competing elements of the human spirit. The importance of all that flowed from this in the course of centuries until it became a reflex of the Japanese spirit, cannot be over-estimated. To explain its width, depth and ramifications would take all the libraries of heavy volumes already devoted to it and, even then, a lifetime of living it, in order to be understood in the way that the most humble of men who are born to it understand. But at that time it emerged as a moving and, for me, sympathetic attempt at bringing human relationships continuously into harmony. Then the resolution achieved could be joined in the overall harmony of the universe. When my 'sensei' warned me that not to know Li meant not being able to take one's position in life, I understood at once what he was saying..." (pp. 152-3.)
"Did I remember, [my teacher] asked me, how at the beginning of our voyage he had been compelled to correct me when I took 'Maru' to be the Japanese for ship? He had tried to explain that it was a kind of suffix of the most ancient origin, and was intended to remind man that certain material things of his own fashioning were more than matter and carried a charge of spirit and symbolic meaning all on their own. In this way some of Japan's greatest knights and warriors had given names to their swords with this suffix of 'Maru' added, to remind them that their swords too were instruments of spirit which should be accordingly used. This pracice was most profound and appropriate applied to ships because..." (p.175.)
"All European preconceptions about the role of the Geisha in the social life of Japan, and the popular tendency to look on them as courtesans and prostitutes of a most select kind, had been erased by what [Japan's senior marine officer, Master of the Canada Maru, Captain Katsue] Mori and my teacher had already told me. I cannot pretend that even then I knew and unerstood their profound and complex role. I do not understand it even today, in the way it should be understood, because understanding was not a matter for knowledge so much as experience... I would try to explain it perhaps on the lines that... she was an externalization of the unrecognized caring and feeling potential in even the most masculine of men which the Greeks always personified as a 'woman' and called the Psyche in man..." (pp. 204, 206.)
"Perhaps one of the saddest things in life is the recurrent illusion of human beings that they can improve on the truth... It seemed to me no accident that the first and only transgressor of the laws of the reverence due to the shrine of Amaterasu Omikami [the Goddess of the Sun] should have been a modern Minister of Education; another of those promoters of 'The Great Artifice' which made reason and intellect not the partners of feeling and intuition that natrue intended them to be, but rather imposters and tyrants..." (pp. 236-7.)
"My relationship with my teacher also deepened and my study of Japanese broadened so that it moved into that most exciting of all dimensions where the facts, grammar and bones of the process daily acquired flesh, atmosphere and nuance. We talked more and more about the great Japanese intangibles. One of these was the all-pervasive 'momo-aware' of their spirit which is beyond explanation or definition and has to be experienced before it produces a fallout in the heart and mind that passes for understanding of sorts. We discussed it most as a sense of sympathy built deeply in all things seen and unseen for one another, even as they are made manifest in the same all-inclusive moment of the unfolding dimensions of time... 'a knight without reproach'... always spoke the truth;... never lacked courage;... [wept] easily." (pp. 258-9.)
"I believe that my own life established some small but undeniable and imperial facts: namely that every life is extraordinary; that the 'average man' is a statistical abstraction and does not exist; and that every single one of us - not excluding the disabled, maimed, blind, deaf, dumb and the bearers of unbearable suffering - matters to a Creation that has barely begun..." (pp. 323-4.)
"... I had sailed from Africa so shattered by events... so full of foreboding and a sense of my own helplessness, that I could not sleep... After several days and nights of increasing unrest and sleeplessness.... Alone in the dark in my cabin and the wash of the sea... I suddenly realized that a calm... was spreading through my being, until at last, on the frontier of sleep, I had a sort of dream-vision... C. G. Jung, who had become a close friend... waved, he called out in... English...: 'I'll be seeing you?'. Then he vanished behind the sunlit summit. Immediately, the calm within me assumed absolute command and I fell asleep. I woke early the next morning... The steward came in with... the ship's newsletter. The first item on the sheet read: 'C.G. Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist, died at his home at Küsnacht in Zürich last evening.' Comparing the time differences caused by latitude, it was clear that my dream-vision came at almost the precise moment of Jung's death." (p. 330.)
The author also cites T. S. ELIOT's Little Gidding:"So I assumed a double part, and criedJOHN C. WHITCOMB & HENRY M. MORRIS, The Genesis Flood - The Biblical record and its scientific implications, with a Foreword by John C. McCampbell (Phillipsburg, Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 44th printing, 2003) - meticulously exposes the manifold anomalies and inconsistences now evidently intrinsic to current mainstream theories of human origins and the age of planet Earth. When I delivered my first RILKO lecture in South Kensington, although well acquainted with Zecharia Sitchin's erudite reports of his patient reading of the many still available and highly relevant ancient Sumerian and Babylonian cuneiform tablets, I was sadly unaware of the degree to which both The Genesis Flood and Doctor PETER PLICHTA's G-d's Secret Formula call into question much of conventional cosmological, evolutionary and geological theory. (Cuneiform tablets are still, I suspect, our only reliable extant sources of factual information regarding any original 'vampires'.)
And heard another's voice cry: 'What! are you here?'
Although we were not. I was still the same,
Knowing myself yet being someone other -
And he a face still forming; yet the words sufficed
To compel the recognition they preceded.
And so, compliant to the common wind,
Too strange to each other for misunderstanding..."ALEXANDER WINSLOW, The Deluge - Its Cause and Effect (Torquay: Squires, 1998).
HANS J. ZILLMER, Darwin's Mistake - Antediluvian discoveries prove: dinoasaurs and humans co-existed, translated from the German (Frontier Publishing 2002; ISBN 1-931882--07-X). The Earth's crust is relatively young; no more than a few thousand years ago its poles were free of ice.
"Erythropoietic porphyria, once termed vampirus bacillus, is a disease of the human body which renders it unable to extract iron from food when eaten. The main symptoms are: a sallow gaunt appearance; the eyes are affected by light and develop a red appearance which is slightly phosphorescent; if exposed to daylight, the eyes swell and the skin explodes into huge blisters; the teeth are often a deep red.
Excess growth of hair can occur on the face, eyebrows and other parts of the body. Sometimes the person will even be driven insance. Haemoglobin break-down in the body occurs over a period of ten days, while the intake of garlic speeds up the process of this incurable condition, eventually proving fatal.
It seems that one of the main reasons sufferers were labelled 'vampires' in the past, is the fact that an intake of blood staves off these terrible symptoms for a short period.
Directly or indirectly, the cause of erythropoietic porphyria is exposure of the human body either to the naked sun-beam or to other sources affected by the active chemism of the Sun.
The disease itself is no respecter of colour, class or creed, and while the intake of blood which has a substance in it that contains iron and stops the porphyrins (the secondary cause of the disease) building up in excessive amounts, it does not cure the 'vampire curse' nor prevent it from being inherited.
Medical experts estimate a possibility of as many as one hundred severe cases, and around six thousand who are suffering from the milder form of this macabre disease." (Alexander Winslow, The Deluge - Its Cause and Effect (ISBN 0 7223 3143-6; pp. 95-6).
The Porphyrias Charitable Trust (tel: 0141 248 1575), 30 St Vincent Crescent, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 8LQ (Registered Charity no. 328647) was formed in 1992 to provide relevant information to children and adult sufferers, their physicians, and the general public, and also to provide specially designed housing for those suffering from congenital porphyria, which is a very rare, inherited and typically recessive skin condition. Other forms of porphyria may be brought on by excessive use of alcohol, or by the use of certain drugs.
even if not everyone approves of this particular human!
Electronic forums frequently transmit unreliable statements, superficial ideas, shallow values.
Metahermeneutics I+N The Midnight Sky
One of the earliest accounts (c. 1200 A.D.) of the killing of a vampire by cutting off its head and driving a stake through its heart can be read in Saxo Grammaticus:
If that is not racism, what is?!..."Why doth my visage wan you thus amaze?
Since he that lives amongst the dead, the grace
Of beauty needs must love; I know not yet
What daring Stygian fiend of Asuit
The spirit sent from hell, who there did eat
A horse, and dog, and being with this meat
Not as yet sufficed, then set his claws on me,
Pulled off my cheek, mine ear, and hence you see
My ugly, wounded, mangled, bloody face;
This monstrous wight returned not to his place
Without received revenge; I presently
His head cut off, and with a stake did I
His body through run."
A kind and concerned friend recently advised that vampires might not be good for me, since they occasionally touch parts of us that other realities may not reach, and so inquired into my state of health. As regards the soul, we are in the hands of G-d; as for the psyche, I hope and pray that careful re-reading of the handful of books below indicated has done some good; from a medical standpoint all I can say in answer to such a question is: from 1968 - 1970, while I was for varying periods of time chaplain to the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary at the Boltons, tutor in theology at the Maria Assumpta Training College, head of religious studies at Battersea Salesian College, a student of human relations and group dynamics with the Richmond Fellowship, a member of the Guild of Pastoral Psychology and, amidst many other priestly and professional occupations, the invited Roman Catholic preacher during a Solemn Mass sung by the Bishop of Willesden in Munster Square's Church of St Mary Magdalen, the considered view of one eminent psychiatrist who knew me better than most was that I was gifted with "a high degree of intelligence and insight" but, although not in any formal sense "mentally ill", I had always been and would always remain a "cyclothymic schizoid" - today, thirty-five years later, the probably more accurate (cf. THOMAS C. CARAMAGNO, The Flight of the Mind - Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness, with an Afterword by Kay Redfield Jamison, University of California Press, 1992) professional opinion of another psychiatrist still in contact with my GP is that, while thankfully "euthymic" on the occasion of our most recent meeting, evidence suggests that a long-established condition of bipolar disorder (though only one pole is exhibited) will, as I grow older and unless appropriate self-monitoring, continuing self-education and adequate self-management enables me to either transcend or sufficiently overcome the seemingly ever-increasing challenges posed by terrorism, cyber-terrorism and, in a word, all sorts of satanic and human stupidity, periodically and quite frequently manifest in a whole range of "manic" or "psychotic" episodes. Admittedly I am not and never have been any sort of threat to the public at large but, post 9/11, having a kitchen-knife sharpened is no longer just a question of paying the travelling knife-grinder to foot-pedal his wheel for you the next time he trundles his barrow into some neighbouring street...... is it, perhaps, only vampires who are still living in paradise?
"The chief aim of all investigations of the external world
should be to dis-
cover the rational order & harmony which has been
imposed on it by G-d and
which He revealed to us in the language of
mathematics." Johannes Kepler
"I thank you for not being one of the wheels of power, but for being instead one single thing with the living creatures which are crushed by those wheels. Power says to the world: you are mine. The world holds it in prison on its throne. Love says to the world: I am yours. And the world gives it full possession of the house." - Rabindranath Tagore.
Lady of All Nations (1945-1959) Why is the
included included, and why is so much excluded?
Honestly,
I just haven't a clue what you're driving at!
NetFreedom & EFF fight to preserve balance and ensure that the Internet and digital technologies
continue to empower you as a consumer, creator, innovator, scholar, and citizen.
Whether or not in any sense ever truly 'haunted', Highgate Cemetery (where Wilhelm Reich's brother-in-law's, Dr Ollendorf's sometimes patient, my friend and colleague Yann Rees, otherwise known as James Rice or James Rice Alexander, who first invited me to spend a week-end with him and a few Buddhist, Christian and other friends in Glastonbury in July 1971, now lies buried where I saw him safely interred after a well attended funeral, but where other and more ancient remains have been needlessly and wantonly disturbed) now shares with a neo-gothic monument in West Yorkshire on the site of what one local social-historian and author, Nurse Barbara Green, vigorously argues is Robin Hood's grave, near the gate-house of what used to be a mediaeval Priory at Kirklees close to her home at Brighouse, its internationally notorious but locally most unwelcome connection with Dracula-inspired tales of 'vampire'-infestation. Yet Highgate didn't come into separate existence as a parish until early in the 19th century when, following the building of a new church dedicated to St Michael designed by Lewis Vulliamy and consecated in 1832, boundaries from just west of Ken House down to Swain's Lane and as far east as Holloway Road served to divide it from both Hornsey and St Pancras. Its first cemetery, spread over twenty acres, dates only from 1839, and another seventeen years passed before eighteen more acres were laid out on the eastern side of Swain's Lane. Hardly the most likely place in which to find any ancient Slavic pre-Christian vampires, not even on "the eve of St George's day", which, according to Chapter One of Bram Stoker's Dracula set in Whitby, is not the 6th but "the fourth of May", the night when, as the clock strikes midnight, "all the evil things in the world will have full sway."
Many French Roman Catholics escaped across the Channel to south-east England at the time of the Revolution and, in 1816, one community to whom the Abbé Morel had been ministering in Hampstead built for themselves one of the first Catholic churches to be built in this country since the Reformation, St Mary's chapel on Holly Hill, notable for the large statue of the Virgin Mary directly over the doorway and a fine bell-tower, surmounted by a cross. In 1858 the fathers of the Cross & Passion acquired the site of the old Black Dog Inn with half-a-dozen acres of land, and established their monastery, St Joseph's Retreat, there, which is where I attended John & Natasha Russell Pope-de-Locksley's wedding in the late autumn of 1987.
Interpreting the meaning of that event remains an ongoing process as I write. Sir Walter Scott was a relative of Thomas Coutts, and so he used to visit Holly Lodge in Hampstead when he was in London. Other frequent visitors there were the Duke and Duchess of St Albans, and the Duke, as Hereditary Grand Falconer of England, used to fly his hawks at Highgate. That Andrew Marvell used to have a cottage close by is also well known. When the monastery was completed in 1876, it was opened by Cardinal Manning, today, perhaps, best remembered for his work on behalf of the London dockers, and so of what is nowadays called "the Church's preferential option for the poor" (which I, unworthy though I be, sincerely share).
The Hon George Spencer was the first head of the Highgate Monastery, where, as directed by Cardinal Heenan, I was towards the end of November 1970, as mentioned in the concluding Chapter of Ecstasy and Vendetta (Peter Davies, 1973), officially questioned under oath by Fr R. McConnell in connection with my application for a papal dispensation from all the institutional onera of the Catholic priesthood, but, as a religious vowed to poverty, chastity and obedience, the man who had been George Spencer became Fr Ignatius. Moreover, the feast of St George no longer features at all in the Roman Catholic Church's universal calendar. Since nothing in this world is ever accidental, what does that tell us?
Nowadays the only credible response must begin: Love is always the question. I have visited two other Passionist monasteries - one in the beautiful Cotswold village of Broadway, at that time not much more than two hours' walk from my pre-Norman Conquest home in Beckford at the foot of Bredon Hill, the other just across the road from the Colisseum in Rome; the Fathers raise chickens where once beasts were cared for prior to their taking part in the gladiatorial games, and the huge church stands directly over the 1st-century Roman two-storey houses of the martyrs Sts. John and Paul - and over the narrow, ancient, paved and twin-pavemented street that still both joins and separates them today.
These memories and many others were fresh in my mind in November 1987 when, the Nottingham Evening Post on Monday, 6 February 1984, having already made public my then conviction, based on personal research into the matter, that Doctor John Russell Pope-de-Locksley was today's most likely and most direct living descendant of Robin Hood, I was both honoured and delighted to be one of many guests privileged to attend his wedding in that holy place.
Many are already looking forward to the day when Fr Ignatius will be officially declared a Saint. Describing the Highgate Monastery, his biographer wrote: "Providence guides us to a most suitable position. Our rule prescribes that our houses shall be outside the town, and yet near enough for us to be of service to it. Highgate is wonderfully adapted to all the requisitions of our rule and constitution. Situated at the brow of a hill, it is far enough from the din and noise of London to be comparatively free of turmoil, and yet sufficiently near for its citizens to come to our church. The grounds are enclosed by trees; a hospital at one end and two roads meeting at the other promise a freedom from intrusion and a continuance of the solitude which we now enjoy."
Not the least hint of any vampires in this monastery - Sorry if that disappoints you, but hardly surprising; Stoker's fictional associations are all elsewhere: 4 Poter's Court, Bartel Street, Walworth; 197 Chicksand Street, Mile End; 347 Piccadilly; St Mary's Church, far away in Whitby and, for Mina's safety, Exeter!
Lady Aileen Fox, in her autobiography, has written beautifully about the coal-cellars of Victorian houses in the late classical style: "the houses were built in terraced blocks, three or four storeys high, each with a flight of steps up to the front door, and a flight down to the back door in the basement. Each had its round coal-hole with a patterned iron slab cover in the pavement, through which the sacks from the horse-drawn cart were emptied into a cellar, with a loud rustling sound and a puff of black shiny coal dust."
My own basement garden-flat in Bellefields Rd, Stockwell, boasted such a coal-hole, I remember, when I was living there at the time of the Brixton riots. (Over the weekend of 10 - 12 April, 1981, riots broke out in Brixton, South London; shops were looted, vehicles destroyed, and 149 police officers and 58 members of the general public were injured.) David Farrant's former home near Highgate Cemetery, I think, still preserves a similar heirloom of our Victorian past. Others, I suspect, bend their minds further back to the physically decadent and withdrawn but magically imaginative world of Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Wordsworth, which has best been so helpfully analysed and interpeted for us by Anya Taylor's Magic and English Romanticism (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1979) under five distinct but inter-related heads: inscrutability of mind, awareness of irrationality within complexity, spiritual dissatisfaction with whatever is organic, using words as substitutes for external realities, and crediting language with magical power, with the sinister result that any sense of Self is lost and the will is weakened or, at least, very severely threatened.
Think before you think! Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. What are you doing when you know? Why is doing that, knowing? What is it that you know when you do it? All too few people have asked, let alone answered those questions - before beginning to tackle others. Have you read The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires (Alpha Books, 2000)?
I particularly recommend: W. W. BARTLEY, III, Werner Erhard - The Transformation of a Man: The Founding of Est (New York: Clarkson N. Potter 1978, pp. 195, 214 & passim, here somewhat modified) - "A transformed individual is one who can tell the truth; and a transformed environment is one where the truth can be told." Programming and reprogamming the Mind may enable one to become a success in terms of life-story, position and personality, but authentic Self-satisfaction is essentially nonpersonal, nonpositional and nonnarrative. It is the Mind state as such, not individual programs, conditions and circumstances within it, which lies at the root of dissatisfaction. Self-righteousness, resentment and emotional guilt, whether or not to any degree justified, inhibit appropriate cybernetic adaptation and optimum present functioning. Meditation (Japanese: zen, Chinese: ch'an, Sanskrit: dhyaña), relaxation and trance by de-hypnotizing the Mind allow consciousness freely to expand beyond these limitations. The Zen adept does not behave evaluatively toward persons or objects - in fact, doesn't behave at all. It is as if the things one were perceiving were perceiving themselves and making use of one's senses; one is able to take the viewpoint of the person or thing with whom one is in contact and to grant it beingness, i.e., its own proper suchness. Such a one does not impose her or his will on the other, and also does not permit her- or himself to be influenced by the will of the other - one lets be what is. While the average individual is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities (neurosis being some sort of deficiency disease), the self-actualizing person is both growth-oriented and complete - not only are his or her basic needs for food, air, clothing, shelter, social contact, sex, safety, love and belonging, and esteem satisfied but, as Abraham Maslow found, "such individuals have a more accurate perception of reality; a heightened acceptance of themselves, of others, and of nature; they are spontaneous, detached, desire privacy; they are autonomous, resistant to inculturation, but not rebels against authority; they are capable of fresh experience and of rich emotional reactions; they do not need groups and institutions and political parties for personal identification, but tend to identify with the human species as a whole; their interpersonal relations are of an unusually developed quality; they tend not to discriminate on the basis of social status, age, sex, race: they are more democratic; they are creative - and they have a high incidence of peak or mystical experiences in the course of their lives."
Only by transcending the Mind, in all its manifestations, and by acknowledging the Self as the source of who one is, can dissatisfaction be vanquished and wholeness be attained. Anything falling short of transformation fails to produce satisfaction. Neither study nor discipline guarantees access to Self. How, then, is transformation to be attained? Although one cannot produce, by recipe, conditions sufficient to guarantee the emergence of a transformed individual, it is possible to identify and create the ecologically necessary conditions for such a mutation freely to occur.
"What conditions foster and inspire transformation? What kind of econiche does one need, i.e., what are the personal, relational, and institutional conditions for transcending personality and ego in all their forms? How are our lives and institutions to be arranged so as to expose beliefs, policies, positions, traditions to maximum examination? What are the social, economic, environmental, cultural, psychological, and philosophical conditions that best inspire the growth and development of consciousness and the creation of transformation, which deter us from becoming stuck in our belief systems, attachments and commitments, and from thus stunting our powers of exploration and discovery?"
As the Buddha has wisely stated: "Once practitioners of contemplation have penetrated the selflessness of phenomena in the absolute sense in true thusness in one cluster, they do not further seek the selflessness of phenomena in the absolute sense in true thusness individually in the other clusters, the sense mecia, conditional origination, nourishment, the truths, the points of mindfulness, the right efforts, the bases of occult powers, the religious faculties and powers, the branches of enlightenment and the branches of the path." (From THOMAS CLEARY's translation of the Sandhinirmochana-sutra: "Scripture unlocking the Mysteries" in Buddhist Yoga - A Comprehensive Course, Shambhala, 1995, p. 17 - ISBN 1-57062-018-0).
Other Books, some of them quite short and yet quite clearly relevant to any comprehensive investigation of the importantly significant differences between 1. 'vampires', 2. VAMPIRES, 2a. VAMPIRES, 2b. VAMPIRES, 3. "vampires", 4. [vampires], 5. (vampires), 6. Vampires, 7. {vampires}, 8. vampires, etc., include:
the direction - projection, introception,This rather unusual book throws considerable light on current difficulties in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Holy Land, and - and in this context, this needs saying - elsewhere...
the vector - speed, gravity,
the model - free action, work,
the expression - jewellery, signs,
the passional or desiring tonality - affect, feeling." (p.88.)
Catherine Fearnley and David Farrant
Colin feels Malta, Gozo & Comino, Amydon-Exeter + Vatican City
share St. Michæl's Mount & Sagra San Michele's harmonic resonance.
Left-hand image as on p.38, right-hand image as scanned at Creativity house Exeter...
Left-hand image as on p.37, right-hand image as scanned at Creativity house Exeter...
"The thoughts of well-meaning people live in the air. They inhabit the air as we do our houses. Before they are placed in books, and only by thinking them, and even if they are never written, they already live in the air... And without our knowing it, without our understanding in our heads, the ideas and souls of ideas that inhabit the air nourish us and encourage us. Mæstro Ino Moxo taught me how to read the air, to distinguish and select the thoughts that live in the air...
I have never seen that book by your friend Varese you told me about. Nevertheless, I have read it several times. For example, it doesn't matter if one day they were to burn all of the copies of that book, because the thoughts, the doubts, the certainties of the person who wrote it, like generous, great truthful spirits, live in the air, and they belong to us."
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1. 'a book', 'a vampire' |
2. A BOOK, A VAMPIRE |
3. "a book", "a vampire" |
4. [a book], [a vampire] |
5. (a book), (a vampire) |
6. A Book, A Vampire |
7. {A Book}, {A Vampire} |
8. a book, a vampire |
When we scan VAMPIRE, WORD, LETTERS, RED, BOOK, etc., from left to right, we assume that we are structurally replicating the visual experience of the individual who wrote VAMPIRE, WORD, LETTERS, RED, BOOK, etc., and that the group we scan is, as well as somehow being in its own acquired right a vehicle of meaning, in Peirce's sense of the term, also an index of the writer's intention, in conformity with prevailing accepted or at least putatively acceptable conventions, approximately to transcribe the phonetic structure of "vampire", "word", "letters", "book", "red", "book", "etc.". We also assume that we can, provided we be sufficiently familiar with these conventions, use the written marks as a prescription which will enable us to construct aural-oral word-signs of our own, which we can utter aloud, should circumstances so require. Unless these conditions are fulfilled, the visible marks are not in English or, indeed, in the majority of other established forms of written communication, likely to be regarded as effective written word-signs.
The few exceptions result from considerations of decorum and politeness. The "...." in "Well, I'll be ....!" permit an inference from the likely meaning of the complete exclamatory quasi-prediction, primarily to the sense, and only secondarily to the aural-oral structure of the component here signified by "...."; because written words are deemed more permanent in form than their spoken counterparts, what can be tolerated in speech is, or used to be less allowable in writing.
In the great majority of cases, an actual utterance of the aural-oral word-signs is not called for, and the reader's thought passes on immediately from VAMPIRE, WORD, RED, ETC., to, in J.D. Solomon's belief, 'word', 'red', 'etc.'. It can, however, be argued that, like 'the material world' of post-Renaissance science, not only 'vampires' but all 'objects' are non-existent abstractions.
Hence, the expressions (vampire) (word), (red), (etc.) I may, where the context so warrants, use to refer exclusively, not to the aural-oral nor to the written word-signs, and not to any 'real-life-situation, concrete application, or language context in use, nor even to any individual's special emphasis or nuance of intention considered as a process, but simply to its possible content - your own, or some other intelligent being's apprehension, either focussed or habitual, of that word's customary general meaning in abstract and hypothetical usage (which, in the case of more highly developed languages as employed by their more sophisticated users, may from time to time become a focus of specific attention for either the writers or readers of dictionaries, philosophical treatises, metalinguistic analyses, etc.) in cases where this apprehension is, though not yet necessarily being applied to anything actual in either the physical world or imaginary space, being nevertheless given individual emphasis, nuance and a more precisely discriminated purely abstract specification by some particular language-user, or group of language-users, living or dead.
Thus, if {G-d} - see 7 below - is not redundant, there is only one 'G-d', but there are at least as many different (G-d)s as there are [language]-users. (G-d), in other words, is a particular finite person's not-materially-expressed 'thought', 'notion', 'idea' or 'concept' of G-d; {G-d} is 'G-d'; (impression) is a particular finite person's never satisfactorily expressed but intuitively appreciated feeling that no 'thought', 'notion', 'idea' or 'concept' can ever be processed fast enough for its contents, as cognised, adequately to correspond to actuality, since all actuality has a transfinite as well as a finite resonance.
Unlike {vampires}, {words}, Ikons and Hieroglyphs, it is worth mentioning that both (vampires) and (words) were, like conventional signs in J.D. Solomon's interpretation of them, entirely unknown to the Ancient Egyptians; they are equally alien to the Traditional Orthodox religious Weltanschauung, and to the Symbolic life-style of Pygmies, Aborigines and other so called primitive peoples. In their different ways, therefore, both abstract notions and material signs - impressions - devoid of any intrinsic natural meaning of their own are equally symptomatic of the split between Subject and Object, Inner and Outer, Art and Science, Fantasy and Fact that is our principal legacy from the Greeks, and a primary source of many contemporary problems.
J.D. Solomon understandably dislikes, because of their neo-platonist overtones, the misleadingly seemingly similar expressions {a book}, {word}, {red}, {etc.}, and so I want to emphasise that my own faith in {G-d's Word} does not imply any belief in either {vampires} or {words}, even though the history of philosophy is full of {them}!
In discussing that historical context, therefore, I may occasionally use such expressions as {vampire}, {word}, {red}, {etc.} to quasi-refer exclusively, not to the the aural-oral nor to the written word-signs, not to any real-life situation, concrete application, or language context in use, and not to any individual's usually special and necessarily imperfect emphasis or nuance of intention, but utterly and quite simply to what a particular philosopher's own or, by his account, any other intelligent being's apprehension, either focussed or habitual, of that world's meaning would need to be, in order for it to be possible (according to that philosopher) for whatever is 'vampire', word', 'red', 'etc.' truly and properly to symbolise it. Thus, according to many philosophers, {a vampire/book} is that precise 'thought', 'notion', 'idea' or 'concept', whether or not it actually exists, to which would adequately and completely correspond, if it did exist, the true and concretely existing nature of 'a vampire/book' - provided that 'nature' can itself truly be said to exist.
With J.D. Solomon I reject {a vampire/book}, but I insist on the actuality of {The Vampire/Book}!
Moreover, even as regards {The Vampire/Book}, though G-d understands it comprehensively, my own or any other finite person's present optimum approximation to an apprehension of it can only be negative, indirect and analogical, and results, rather like our appreciation of (Highest Common Factors) from our preceding understanding of the set of abstract (numbers) to which they relate - from our prior Insight into the radical inadequacy of our only putatively related earlier abstract understanding of {vampires/books}. 'Learned ignorance' or 'controlled folly' is the best we can hope for!
For example, if the Bible is one of G-d's WORDS, all interpretations of (the Bible) will be distortions of any Message it is meant to communicate to Individual Readers, while the Qur'an may also be one of G-d's WORDS, an Appendix or latter-day Propa&elig;deutic to the Old Testament, for instance?
Rarely, if ever, will my understanding of (G-d's word) agree entirely with yours or with anyone else's: (G-d's word) as related to you is, as is patently obvious, never identical with (G-d's word) as related to J.D. Solomon, or as related to me, etc. G. K. Chesterton's highly original final chapter to his The Man Who Was Thursday can, indeed, be understood as a brilliant expression both of this 'philosophical truth' and of its lack of ultimate Meaning or Importance.
Heinz W. Cassirer's posthumously published God's New Covenant - A New Testament Translation offers the following as an English translation of Jn 1:1.14: "It was the Word that was at the very beginning; and the Word was by the side of G-d, and the Word was the very same as G-d.... The Word became a creature of flesh and blood and made his stay in our midst. And we saw his glory...."
With the help of the conventions Solomon and I have developed, that text may, at a first approximation, be unpacked as: "IT WAS-IS-AND-EVER-WILL-BE THE {Word}-"Voice"-SIGNATURE THAT IS AT The Very Beginning; AND THE {Word}-"Voice"-SIGNATURE IS BY THE SIDE OF G-d, i.e., THE ORIGINAL {Mind}-"Speech Act"-Writer, AND THE {Word}-"Voice"-SIGNATURE IS THE VERY SAME AS THE ORIGINAL {Mind}-"Speech Act"-Writer.... THE {Word}-"Voice"-SIGNATURE HAS BECOME A CREATURE OF FLESH AND BLOOD AND HE MADE HIS STAY IN OUR MIDST, AND We Saw His Glory."
This Glory is, I believe, like Each and Every Actuality, always a Uniquely Individual Manifestation to Each Person with Eyes to See. Just as there is never a universal eye, so there never can be a universal vision. The Communion of Saints in the One Life of Christ's Mystical Body, His Church, is, therefore, rightly Called a Mystery of Faith.
"The Powers of Darkness to tread DownReferences to the Bedford, England's "The Panacea Society" may still be read in the pages of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post for Wednesday and Monday, 2nd and 7th April 1941, in the Birmingham Gazette for Wednesday, 28 May 1941, and again in the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post for Monday, 28th July 1941. In these, Joanna Southcott's supposed "New Revelation" is interestingly related to the idea of there being not one, but two "Churches", a notion that Joanna certainly argued for and prophecied about most persuasively, key-texts being supplied by Genesis 19:10, Luke 8:8 and Matthew 4:17. Joanna Southcott's Divine-Four-Square mission was, in fact, aimed at replacing the Laodicean Church of Christendom (cf Revelation 3:14-22) by or, preferably, transforming it into the Philadelphian Church of the Holy Spirit (Revelation 3:7-13; cf. Acts 13:4). When Bishop Pelham denounced Joanna from the pulpit as the woman who on earth had done the greatest wickedness and wrought the most evil imaginable, having "done more mischief than ever an individual did before", Robert Partbury pointedly inquired whether it was ever right to "ridicule a named individual from the pulpit". That was c. 1813 when Joanna Southcott, known to some as "Satan's Mistress", was by others already revered as "the Woman Clothed with the Sun" who "shall make all Nations shake."
Is thy Petition Given
And I the Lord of all be Found
And Earth Resemble Heaven
Now whereas the Man will Blame thy Prayer
My Kingdom He Shall Never Share
So Here's the Justice of a god
Imbrace My Love or fear My Rod."
"When Rodolf had disappeared, Farnese said, without obvious malice:... 'In this country, the norms of judgment, the Aristotelian categories, the concepts underlying the law and its administration, are vastly different from those in Germanic or Anglo-Saxon countries. If you propose to spend any time here - to further your legal studies, for example - you must learn the idiom of life, as you have obviously learned the idiom of the Italian language. I would remind you, however, that our common tongue expresses only half the thought and even less of the emotion of the peoples of this peninsula. Their private lives are carried on in dialects, Pugliese, Calabrese, Neapolitan, Sicilian, Sard... Are you listening to me, Mr Cavanagh?'
'I'm listening, sir... I understand what you mean by idioms of language and of life. Such differences are not unique to Italy. We have them even in my country, which has less than two hundred years of recorded history - which includes the genocide of the indigenous peoples who occupied the continent for at least 40,000 years'..."
" 'I hear what you're saying. I can't duck the issue. I'm just trying to work out the right way to handle it.'
'There is no right way,' she told him harshly. 'You're a lawyer. You should know that. I had a boyfriend once who was a very distinguished attorney in New York. He used to tell me: "Stay out of the court, kid; but if you land up there, remember one thing: it's a battlefield. You walk out alive or they carry you out dead. And we attorneys will charge you the same for the triumph or the burial!".'..."
Europe "is a wasteland - a continent which has just seen the final sequelæ of the Great Schism between Rome and Byzantium, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation, the fall of monarchies and dictatorships, the tribal enmities that began with the great migrations across the steppes into Europe. But mark my words, Europe will recover, and slowly begin to see that its salvation lies in co-operative effort and some code of common belief and law..."
'In The Findhorn Garden (Findhorn Press & Harper and Row), Dorothy Maclean describes the devas as part of a whole hierarchy of spiritual beings involved in the natural world, "from the earthiest gnome to the highest archangel". She explains that the devas might be considered as "architects", supervising the work of building up mineral, vegetable ad animal forms.
The devas hold the archetypal pattern and plan for all forms around us, and they direct the energy needed for materialising them... While the devas might be considered the "architects" of plant forms, the nature spirits or elementals, such as gnomes and fairies, may be seen as the "craftsmen", using the blueprint and energy channelled to them by the devas...According to Dorothy, these supernatural beings deal directly with energy. They experience the garden, not as material, but as forms of energy behind the physical structures that we see. She quotes them as saying,
We do not see things as you do, in their solid, outer materialisations, but rather in their inner life-giving state. We deal with what is behind what you see or sense, but these are interconnected, like different octaves of the same melody.To them, the garden was not an assembly of various forms and colours,
... but rather moving lines of energy... within this field of energy, each plant was an individual whirlpool of activity.... One afternoon in March 1966, Roc [R. Ogilvie Crombie] was walking in the Royal Botantic Gardens of Edinburgh. He sat under a spreading beech tree. Suddenly he noticed a small figure dancing in front of him only twenty or so yards away. It was about three feet tall. To his complete amazement, Roc realised that it was a faun as described in mythology. It was half human, half animal. It had a pointed chin and ears and two little horns on its forehead. Its shaggy legs ended in cloven hooves and its skin was honey-coloured. The creature seemed quite real and solid - Roc had wondered at first if it was a schoolboy dressed up for a play. He watched in astonishment, hardly able to believe his eyes.
| Here's to Old Nick - long will he reign
His jokes and pranks drive them insane! Where would we be without his jests? He puts our tolerance to the test. A master criminal in many guises - Crafty, tricky with several disguises… Advocates sin in the subtlest tones He must have come from a rather bad home! Breaks all the rules, then runs for cover; Our private secrets he wants to discover: Then he can blackmail or use extortion Only likes things if there's a distortion…" From a recent poem by CHRIS STALLION |
Whether or not Pan and "the devil" coincide is, of course, only one of many related question to which a variety of replies have been made. Joseph S. Ellul (born April 1920, left and centre) believes this identification goes back for at least 12,000 years (see images below, both left and right).
The final chapter of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows may represent an opposite view. Certainly, the life, the history and the legend of Saint Joan of Arc have much to teach us; her personal prayer and intercession are even more likely to assist and comfort us in times of need. If you've seen the film, Witchblade, or if you've read Helen Mary Luke's book, Kaleidoscope (Parabola Books, 1992), you'll agree that there's no shortage nowadays of excellent rôle-models. The Little Vampire is certainly well worth watching.
Every Anglican diocese has its own official exorcist. This priest must always keep his own Bishop well informed. The legitimate and canonically appointed Church authorities have always and quite properly been wary of worsening any suspect situation by intervening in any sense inappropriately.
It is noteworthy that the Church of England's current Canon Law nowhere mentions exorcism. There is only one relevant prescription in the whole corpus of Anglican Church Law. You can confirm this for yourself quite easily. Just take a look at the recently published new edition of that collection; it's quite a weighty tome, and one to which His Grace the then Archbishop of York, the Most Reverend Doctor David Hope, contributed an Introduction.
On the other hand, in the course of their pastoral ministry within our contemporary world, many Cardinals, Bishops and Priests "have not sufficiently stressed the reality of the Powers of Evil at work." As His Holiness Pope Paul VI so clearly affirmed during the General Audience of 15th November 1972: "Evil is not merely a lack of something, but an effective agent, a living, spiritual being, perverted and perverting." (for the full text, cf. Osservatore Romano, 23rd November 1972, p.3.)
A sense of humour is important. Colin James Hamer, who is, as well as Webmaster, both a philosopher and a theologian, has personally experienced many difficulties in reading various writings on the subjects above mentioned; he greatly admires John Henry Cardinal Newman and is delighted that the Roman Catholic Church, to which he is proud to belong, no longer maintains any current Index of Forbidden Books. I once published on a North American University Internet website a research paper called "Vampire Steaks and Green Kippers", now, I fear, no longer accessible there. Nevertheless, Richard Barclay appears to have had it in mind when he wrote to me from Essex for Samhain 2003 about, among other delights, 'blue-rinse ..., green kippers & stinking red herrings', thereby, I regret to report, injecting a note of irony into what had originally been conceived as a truly if only modestly ecumenical contribution to a dialogueI+NLove anent matters of grave moment. As Tony Blair has wisely reminded us, we are all stake-holders now. Terrorism persists. Empty vessels make the most sound. Silence is golden. Reading nourishes the mind. Our only future, whether it come quickly or more slowly, will be that which we have freely chosen to create together - add, by G-d's grace, if you will (but for most that truth is far too obvious to need mentioning in most current everyday circumstances). Certainly, we don't need another Inquisition. (Some eight hundred Catholics were condemned to death in England and Wales during the reign of Good Queen Bess; less than seven hundred 'heretics' were condemned to death by the Spanish Inquisition in the whole of the several centuries in which it continued to operate - and that for the most part despite the repeated prohibition of Rome.)
The published writings of John David Solomon (1906-1998) reveal a mind very largely in agreement with Peter Hewitt's, as mentioned above. Both men were members of the Scientific & Medical Network; they were also near neighbours, had exchanged papers with each other, had met, and discussed. As Doctor Solomon's literary executor, I believe that the above quotation, in addition to its obvious immediate interest, repays careful analysis and detailed comparison with Solomon's account of what we regard as "reality".
President George Bush junior, for example, has declared war on terrorism. Declarations are not executive acts bringing into existence a state of affairs previously absent from the world. Donald Evans (in his The Logic of Self-Involvement, SPCK, 1968) has helpfully identified them as "constatives". In other words, diplomatic exchanges, protest marches and high-profile summit meetings do not create new situations on planet Earth; they simply facilitate a reciprocal appreciation of how things have already stood for several centuries now - and also of how, humanly speaking, they are likely to remain standing for several more centuries yet to come...
All is fair in love and war. This world is not Heaven. Frequently ramshackle and higgledy-piggleday, apparently both upside down and inside out, our planet has never, save for thirty-seven brief years at the most, ceased to be a war-zone, and, even when it doesn't strike us as especially awe-inspiring, it remains, therefore, always, in today's colloquial sense of the expression: "a terrible place".
As you may know, as well as having been for some years a member of both the Guild of Pastoral Psychology and the Scientific & Medical Network, I was a foundation member of the National Association for the Advancement of Student Counselling; I never strait-jacketed the practice of psychotherapy within either Freudian or Jungian parameters and, when I gave an invitation lecture at the Tavistock, the then secretary of the British Medical Council, who was present in the audience, especially commended my familiarity with Wilhelm Stekel's incisively intuitive approach.
As Mary Duhig of Camborne wrote in November 1996 (telephone number at that time: 01209 714012; currently not listed - and appears not to have an identifiable website): "The Existential'Phenomenological psychotherapist is an 'Aide' employed by clients who are seeking to clarify the meaning and purpose of their lives; their suffering, joys, concerns, difficulties, desires. The Existential/Phenomenological psychotherapist endeavours to provide an environment in which clients may, without meeting pre-judice - pre-judgment, examine their intentions and explore what possibilities may be open to them.
I", she confided, "have been in practice as a psychotherapist since 1974, beginning my education in psychotherapy with the Philadelphia Association in London in 1970. This education may have finished formally in 1975 but has continued, through supervision, reading and discussions with colleagues. I expect it to continue for the rest of my life.
From 1989-1996 I was a Director of the Oxford School of Psychotherapy and Counselling, encouraging others in their task of becoming psychotherapists or counsellors through seminars, discussion and study groups, group experience, tutorials and individual and group supervision.
I have worked mainly with individuals and also with couples and groups: with men and women, adult and adolescent. My method has been described as 'conversational', i.e., based on a dialogue which focusses on the client's life.
In the course of a long life of practice, I have met colleagues practising different methods and have learned from them. I have, at times, used rôle-play, enactment, voice dialogue, active imagination when these have appeared useful and desirable to the client.
My work is to engage with other people who are endeavouring to take, as fully as possible, a responsible position towards their own decisions. I regard symptoms as part of a person's life story to be explored in the context of desire: that is my contribution: I do not stand between the clients and any other form of treatment they may choose to seek. I have not set convictions about drugs, herbs, alternative or orthodox medicine. (I know, on the whole, what suits me: but I recognise that one person's treat is another person's nausea.) I eschew all forms of interference, of manipulation, persuasion, cajoling or insistence and regard with scepticism any form of certain knowledge about what is best for another (though I might have some ideas about it!)
No one is fully aware. No one has complete knowledge, nor is proficient in every healing art or science. I acknowledge that I can do only what I can do: but I do pay tribute to my therapist, Dr John Heaton, who aided me in finding the willingness, the courage and the ability to uncover some of my hidden motives and vain desires.
In my view psychotherapy is an ethical enterprise in which client and psychotherapist set out to discover what is a good life and how it can be accomplished within the parameters of the client's life. I regard psychotherapy as a work of love, for it must be open to another's idiom and meaning and hold in mind the unique value of any other person; a person who is other, yet someone with whom we share our common humanity."
I have quoted Marion Kim's translation of a Korean prayer to the Holy Spirit. Anne C. Klein's edition of Jeffrey Hopkins, The Tantric Distinction - An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1984, p. 122) is also a precious jewel:
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