a Soul in ev'ry Stone WAS Re: GRGR(29) - The Grid, The Comb

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Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> RJ said, "The Australian Aborigines certainly, and I suspect African
> and American
> indigenous peoples too, get along quite well believing there to be a Soul in
> ev'ry Stone, or something very much like it."
> 
> So do many Christian --  the contemplatives, those who embrace the
> creation spirituality that Matthew Fox promulgates, many members of
> mainline, liberal Christian churches.  And adherents to the mystical
> traditions of the other major faith traditions. So did Plato (see Ken
> Wilber on Plato as working mystic). As indebted as we are to
> indigenous peoples, we don't have to embrace their worldviews to
> experience the world as a miracle:  this appears to be part of the
> natural heritage of all humankind, and, in the West and its colonial
> outposts, retreats only before the advance of Capital and the
> Enlightment worldview.  This, I believe, is an important part of what
> Pynchon has to say to us in his books.
> --
> 
> d  o  u  g    m  i  l  l  i  s  o  n  <http://www.online-journalist.com>


Plato's soul is not the soul in every stone that GR speaks
of, quite the contrary. The christian soul is Aristotle's
soul,  not found in rocks, so again, not the soul in every
stone in GR.