Author: chazwinchazwin Date: Dec 9, 2007 11:14
Interesting!!!
I would never have pegged Doyle as a mystic. It seems to show that
people can compartmentalise themselves.
Earlier this year I fished around for a quick bedtime read. I lighted
upon "The Passion of the Western Mind, by Richard Tarnas. Not knowing
the author I thought it might be an interesting read through the
history of philosphy from Plato to the present. It all went well, most
was known to me already, with one or two areas of doubt filled in
during the early mediavel period. Fine, until I got to the last
chapter where the whole thing went mad and ideosyncratic.
Later I discoverd that Tarnas has written volumes on Astrology: not in
critique but in support. If I had known that I would never have picked
up his book in the first place!! I am stil puzzled how a person with
such...
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