Back to AtD. Shambala p.975

[Mark Kohut]

Halfcourt: "For me, Shambala, you see, turned out to be not a goal but an absence."
How generalizeable (about Shambala) do we all think that might be? Is Halfcourt a 
vehicle of the authr's vision here?

OR, whenever I read Halfcourt, I think Full Court and half-wit allusions. Is he not
all there, does not go all out? 

"Whatever its historical basis, Shambhala gradually came to be seen as a Buddhist Pure Land, a fabulous kingdom whose reality is visionary or spiritual as much as physical or geographic. It was in this form that the Shambhala myth reached the West, where it influenced non-Buddhist as well as Buddhist spiritual seekers — and, to some extent, popular culture in general."

see full wikipedia article if interested. it is interesting.
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