tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524204572427080629.post4394194187470299279..comments2024-03-04T10:07:47.291-08:00Comments on Metaphysical Thoughts and Visions: Ann Ree ColtonRobert Searlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15492364980305779010noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3524204572427080629.post-39741504867251292612015-07-06T18:33:03.043-07:002015-07-06T18:33:03.043-07:00Nice to find your blog.
Regarding the "purit...Nice to find your blog.<br /><br />Regarding the "puritanical and moralising element", is your objection due to its presence (i.e. you disagree with it) or due to its quantity or emphasis? Her verbal comments generally included practical remarks on the reality of human weakness and how patience is needed for its overcoming. She didn't, however, say that patience implies no effort. In fact, she said that the chief barrier to progress in meditation (but I think also in moral areas) is the desire for instantaneous (and effortless) results.<br /><br />Organization, I agree, wasn't the highest priority. She needed to get the voluminous material on paper as much of it was written in her later years when her health was declining.<br /><br />Dense material - in her later books, yes. Same problem as with organization. She had to get it in print. I find that you can meditate on small snippets by themselves and get more out of that than reading large tomes - and you have a truth in a nicely condensed form. If one reads lots of books without digesting them, he may think that they cohere in his mind, but when he tries to say what he thinks he knows or write about it, he finds considerable gaps. Truth is often not as complicated as our opinions about it!<br /><br />Jargon (I prefer "terminology") may be difficult, but the terms she used were pretty apt. I found that she actually simplified a lot of concepts from Theosophy, Alice Bailey, and others. In Alice Bailey, numerous similar concepts had a plethora of names, as they do in a lot of Sanskrit literature. I think the thousand personifications of qualities in Sanskrit literature make for a more baffling - if sometimes more nuanced - understanding of them.Archimboldo Urzeithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02510124064814294215noreply@blogger.com