This diverse group of delightful people had each realized a profound transformation. Millions of other have had epiphanies, but few with the degree, duration or frequency which changed their awareness from personal to transpersonal. They inspired my e-book “the greatest achievement in life” which was posted at http://www.suprarational.org in 2009.

When it comes to polar tensions, they are only effective if they stay out of equilibrium- states which indicate a system at 100% entropy. Aliveness depends on states remaining in flux. So I like your aversion to non-dual unity.

I also like your distinction between spiritualities that seek a way out of this world, and those that seek a way into this world. I’d like to further this conversation when I can put a little more time into this.

Mike

I just found your site this morning, great find. Its encouraging to me, to find another follower of Christ who seeks and finds His reality in reality, instead of relying on novel ways of sermonizing a cultural expression, who’s form remains frozen for two millennia and counting.

I recognize a devotional motivation behind keeping the first century events intact as the totality of God’s revelation, but I would argue that any durability built on freezing a moment from time will not constitute the Eternal: the durability of the Eternal arises from its nature as being fundamental to Human reality, and not merely a cultural artifact.

So for me, I now hold insight gained from scientific understanding with an equal footing to the insight I gain from the scriptures. Furthermore, I’m asserting that any power the scriptures have for enlightening our understanding is derived, not from it’s being, The Bible, but by its ability to illuminate something relevant for us to see in contemporary reality; and looking in our reality from its point of view, we’ll be able to recognize it.

Any way, I look forward to more of your thinking, and I want you to know that I’m in your cam p.

Mike.

But I still feel he’s being somewhat reactionary. Sure, the instrumental rationality of stem cell research and genetic manipulation pose dangers to humans, but they also offer opportunities to escape our lesser selves. Wouldn’t it be great to escape the messy reality of sexual reproduction, but retain its sensual pleasures. Who knows what lies on the other side of the genetic door? It’s human nature to take a peak, and human nature to be trapped inside the new room.

We’re becoming ever more capable of understanding ourselves and the futures of our choices. I would, with great deference, advise Habermas to support the inevitable manipulation of the human genome, but the encourage debate around what the products of such manipulation are. Surely great.r rationality, artistic ability intelligence and health cannot be bad things and are possible once we’ve understood the loci of these human virtues? We just need to tread carefully and KEEP TALKING!