tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14019520.post7913899572701152965..comments2024-01-02T17:33:05.058+05:30Comments on Musepaper: Spiritual poverty of contemporary secular humanismTusar Nath Mohapatrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12067509498066370100noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14019520.post-32336663858142822512007-08-07T14:32:00.000+05:302007-08-07T14:32:00.000+05:30John again.What nobody seems to realize is that we...John again.<BR/>What nobody seems to realize is that western civilization (such as it was) effectively destroyed itself in the two world wars and that it has inevitably been downhill ever since.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14019520.post-6938535410087933702007-08-07T13:53:00.000+05:302007-08-07T13:53:00.000+05:30I find Camille to be just as spiritually bankrupt ...I find Camille to be just as spiritually bankrupt and empty as everyone else. She is a show-pony, a poseur, a phoney.<BR/><BR/>Full of the usual (even brilliant) western (abstract and abstracting)academic knowledge.<BR/><BR/>Apart from one cursory comment on Buddhism she doesnt even mention the insights into the human condition of all the other great cultures of humankind. What about Sri Aurobindo for instance?<BR/><BR/>My Spiritual Master quite literally devoured ALL of the Western Tradition, including its art, when he studied philosophy at Columbia back in the late 50's. Altogether he found it ALL to be a collosal facade with no real answers to anything. In his auto-biography he states that his graduation day was the unhappiest day of his life--he had inherited nothing except the vast emptiness at the core of (the then) western "culture". <BR/><BR/>She doesnt even mention the fact that THE dominant institution in the USA is the Pentagon military-industrial complex, or how its "values" permeate every aspect of USA "culture", including much of university research, and not just in the hard sciences---the "culture" of death literally rules.<BR/><BR/>And that the most strident supporters of the Pentagon death machine are the same "conservatives" who get upset about naked bodies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com