C of L49: the demonic?

Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 9 16:18:23 CDT 2009


Ed Mendelsohn speaks of the demonic as a necessary part of the Religious, I believe, as part of P's meaning in C of L49. 

Some PHd. named Robert Moore: The great scholar Mircea Eliade (1959) is one of the most important people [ a P fave, as we know]  ... to have the energy you needed to live, or any energy you had would be demonic. ...

Eliade 1964: 432) The indigenous peoples of pre-Buddhist Tibet believed in divine ... Hordes of these demonic spirits may group together to attack the bitan, who must pray to ... home.portal.ca/~lonewolf/shaman.ht
"hordes"?....masked marauders in black? 
 
MK: Demonic energy is anti-entropic and fits into the Maxwell's Demon metaphor?...


      




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