tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256339348557514118.post5056749766002141768..comments2024-01-08T16:40:28.947+05:30Comments on Savitri Era Open Forum: Heidegger insists that the kind of transcendence he is thinking about itself surpasses ChristianityTusar Nath Mohapatrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067509498066370100noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3256339348557514118.post-67190266968018134042008-02-16T15:12:00.000+05:302008-02-16T15:12:00.000+05:30Christianity is not and never has been about trans...Christianity is not and never has been about transcendence or ecstasy. It was and is about social control, about being a "good" meat-body personality, and if you are "good", getting your "transcendent" reward in the next life. <BR/><BR/>No present time ecstasy (stepping outside of your socially constructed "self" allowed)<BR/><BR/>Alan Watts wrote a book titled The Taboo Against Knowing What You Are.<BR/><BR/>The Taboo against ecstasy/transcendence was established at the very beginning of Pauline churchianity. Our current thoroughly secularised "culture" is the inevitable outcome of that power and control seeking meme.<BR/><BR/>When did any of the dreadfully serious buttoned down scholars at Immanent Frame ever go into a state of ragged unbounded state ecstasy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com