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		<title>By: Happy Birthday Thomas Merton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk who believed deeply in contemplation and interfaith dialogue. The Website of Unknowing has a great overview of his life. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By: Delameilleure Fred</title>
		<link>http://anamchara.com/mystics/thomas-merton/#comment-15283</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Carl and friends,
I love reading Merton. I also loved reading  Schuon and perennialism but there was something Merton didn&#039;t know when he said:
&#039;Reading Schuon I have the impression that I am going along parallel to him ... I appreciate him more and more&#039;. -- Thomas Merton (from a letter to Marco Pallis published in Merton&#039;s The Hidden Ground of Love)

I discovered this http://www.naturesrights.com/knowledge%20power%20book/frithjof_Schuon.asp

I don&#039;t wish to keep myself busy with negative things but this was quite perplexing. A so-called great thinker and metaphysician like Schuon with such credentials, being a demonized sexual pervert?

(Some examples of reviews:
 
Any serious person will feel grateful to be confronted by such a generously discerning intellect ... in this darkening time. -- Jacob Needleman, San Francisco State University

He has influenced my music perhaps more than anyone in recent years ... I am eternally grateful to him. -- Sir John Tavener, composer and author

Reading Schuon I have the impression that I am going along parallel to him ... I appreciate him more and more. -- Thomas Merton (from a letter to Marco Pallis published in Merton&#039;s The Hidden Ground of Love)

The man is a living wonder ... I know of no living thinker who begins to rival him. -- Huston Smith, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

This book brings a much-needed message of return to the roots of our being ... that are ... planted in the ... Spirit. -- Patrick Laude, Georgetown University, Foreword to Roots of the Human Condition)

I knew some of the accusations, after hearing about them through a friend, and I gather many of his admirers have now deserted him (though Nasr stood by him and denied the accusations). I am in no position to know if they are true or not, but it wouldn&#039;t surprise me, given that I realized that his prose is permeated with a kind of spiritual pride and arrogance that is almost sickening, and one thing is connected to another. Very instructive - we see how the devil can work, and deceive &#039;even the elect&#039;, as Schuon himself has said (though not in reference to himself). 
 
I connect this with his inability to accept the Trinity or the meaning of the Incarnation. He prefers his own monistic ideology. Guenon has something of the same arrogance, though it may not have led in his case to such a fall. For my money, it is Jean Borella who had got most of this stuff right - he turned against Schuon, and has criticized Guenon in exactly the right ways, by correcting his metaphysics and his teachings about Christianity. Guenon may have converted to Islam, but perhaps he never quite turned his back on Theosophy.
 
I had already seeing pics of Schuon this impression of pride. But let&#039;s be honest, such things happen unfortunately also within the Church until these days.

See about Borella at 
http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/...new-french-theology/

That is exactly what I always thought: monism may and mostly lead(s) to this kind of stuff! There is tmo no sound morality without Trinity (relation), Incarnation, Cross...(see Dostoievski&#039;s saying).
The same I have seen with some Advaita teachers.

Fred]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Carl and friends,<br />
I love reading Merton. I also loved reading  Schuon and perennialism but there was something Merton didn&#8217;t know when he said:<br />
&#8216;Reading Schuon I have the impression that I am going along parallel to him &#8230; I appreciate him more and more&#8217;. &#8212; Thomas Merton (from a letter to Marco Pallis published in Merton&#8217;s The Hidden Ground of Love)</p>
<p>I discovered this <a href="http://www.naturesrights.com/knowledge%20power%20book/frithjof_Schuon.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.naturesrights.com/knowledge%20power%20book/frithjof_Schuon.asp</a></p>
<p>I don&#8217;t wish to keep myself busy with negative things but this was quite perplexing. A so-called great thinker and metaphysician like Schuon with such credentials, being a demonized sexual pervert?</p>
<p>(Some examples of reviews:</p>
<p>Any serious person will feel grateful to be confronted by such a generously discerning intellect &#8230; in this darkening time. &#8212; Jacob Needleman, San Francisco State University</p>
<p>He has influenced my music perhaps more than anyone in recent years &#8230; I am eternally grateful to him. &#8212; Sir John Tavener, composer and author</p>
<p>Reading Schuon I have the impression that I am going along parallel to him &#8230; I appreciate him more and more. &#8212; Thomas Merton (from a letter to Marco Pallis published in Merton&#8217;s The Hidden Ground of Love)</p>
<p>The man is a living wonder &#8230; I know of no living thinker who begins to rival him. &#8212; Huston Smith, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley</p>
<p>This book brings a much-needed message of return to the roots of our being &#8230; that are &#8230; planted in the &#8230; Spirit. &#8212; Patrick Laude, Georgetown University, Foreword to Roots of the Human Condition)</p>
<p>I knew some of the accusations, after hearing about them through a friend, and I gather many of his admirers have now deserted him (though Nasr stood by him and denied the accusations). I am in no position to know if they are true or not, but it wouldn&#8217;t surprise me, given that I realized that his prose is permeated with a kind of spiritual pride and arrogance that is almost sickening, and one thing is connected to another. Very instructive &#8211; we see how the devil can work, and deceive &#8216;even the elect&#8217;, as Schuon himself has said (though not in reference to himself). </p>
<p>I connect this with his inability to accept the Trinity or the meaning of the Incarnation. He prefers his own monistic ideology. Guenon has something of the same arrogance, though it may not have led in his case to such a fall. For my money, it is Jean Borella who had got most of this stuff right &#8211; he turned against Schuon, and has criticized Guenon in exactly the right ways, by correcting his metaphysics and his teachings about Christianity. Guenon may have converted to Islam, but perhaps he never quite turned his back on Theosophy.</p>
<p>I had already seeing pics of Schuon this impression of pride. But let&#8217;s be honest, such things happen unfortunately also within the Church until these days.</p>
<p>See about Borella at<br />
<a href="http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/...new-french-theology/" rel="nofollow">http://cosmos-liturgy-sex.com/&#8230;new-french-theology/</a></p>
<p>That is exactly what I always thought: monism may and mostly lead(s) to this kind of stuff! There is tmo no sound morality without Trinity (relation), Incarnation, Cross&#8230;(see Dostoievski&#8217;s saying).<br />
The same I have seen with some Advaita teachers.</p>
<p>Fred</p>
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		<title>By: Contemplating Good Friday &#171; Enlightened Rebellion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] And therefore, although strangers, we belong to each other through an inextricable, divine link. Thomas Merton wrote of a metaphorical dream-state, of illusory separateness, of spurious self-isolation. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By: Fourth and Walnut &#171; The Website of Unknowing</title>
		<link>http://anamchara.com/mystics/thomas-merton/#comment-6453</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[...] that experience in his book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (and which I quote at length on my Thomas Merton page). Conjectures was published in 1966, eight years after the epiphany took place; here is what [...]]]></description>
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