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Bretton Garcia

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14. I studied many things in college, including religion
Thu Sep 5, 2019, 10:37 PM
Sep 2019

Last edited Fri Sep 6, 2019, 06:48 AM - Edit history (1)

But I favor the rational study of it.

No doubt it is partly true that our normal superficial experience of the world is often mistaken, subjective. But Hinduism say, never really used that and other insights, to develop enormously useful science and technology as well as the rational west. To see reasonably firm realities behind delusions.

So we invited/paid for Leary to come to Bowling Green Ohio. I knew he was vaguely spiritual, but also had some academic chops from Harvard. And at his lecture we all had a very good conversation with him on that, sometime in the late 1980s.

I went to one of his talks when I was in college dawg day Sep 2019 #1
Thanks! Newest Reality Sep 2019 #2
Namaste! 😍❤ littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 #3
My new copy of Be Here Now will be here today or tomorrow. marble falls Sep 2019 #4
Awesome! ❤ littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 #5
Shouldn't it be there now? Voltaire2 Sep 2019 #9
It should be but that's neither here nor now. marble falls Sep 2019 #11
I got his buddy Tim Leary to lecture at my college Bretton Garcia Sep 2019 #6
Very cool! Where were you? littlemissmartypants Sep 2019 #8
Even deeper yet... Newest Reality Sep 2019 #12
I studied many things in college, including religion Bretton Garcia Sep 2019 #14
Recommended. guillaumeb Sep 2019 #7
You recommend it without even knowing what he said? trotsky Sep 2019 #10
Did you condemn what the Pope said about climate chamge? eom guillaumeb Sep 2019 #13
We might thank the pope for embracing science; combatting climate change Bretton Garcia Sep 2019 #15
Yes, we might thank the Pope. eom guillaumeb Sep 2019 #18
The pope is a hypocrite. trotsky Sep 2019 #16
In a truly ironic twist, guillaumeb Sep 2019 #19
Umm, not sure how to explain this to you... trotsky Sep 2019 #20
Hippie found God in a mushroom patch. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2019 #17
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