>From: "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: <extropians@extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: Nietzsche (transhumanist philosopher)
>Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:14:45 -0700
How do you know this? Are you "enlightened"? Or are you just taking their
word for it ("they" being those who you consider enlightened).
>If you
>really want to know about enlightenment, then you will meditate whenever
>you
>can, for as long as you can, so that you can attain enlightenment. Then you
>will
>know for yourself. Expressing opinions and exchanging speculation about
>enlightenment are ways of postponing your own enlightenment.
>You can call it enlightenment or nirvana or total awareness or self
>realization
>or self actualization or cosmic consciousness or the crystallization of
>man's
>harmonious development or samadhi or satori or choiceless awareness or
>superconsciousness or the psychedelic experience or transcendence or the
>beatitude or zen or dhyana or the peak of human experience or
>hypercognition or
>any of the other ninety nine names of nothingness. My personal favorite is
>superlative sentience. It simply means the direct experience of reality.
>
>--J. R.
>
>"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
>to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
>For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
>--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_
>
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