Comments on: The Navel of No Thing http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/ Thoughts on Dreams, Life, and Spirit - by Anne Hill, D.Min. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:39:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Blog o’ Gnosis » Blog Archive » Hotel California Cosmology http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-8696 Blog o’ Gnosis » Blog Archive » Hotel California Cosmology Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:47:53 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/#comment-8696 [...] makes so much intuitive sense to me that it is difficult to even describe why that is so. In my review of Jeffrey Kripal’s book on Esalen I gave it a pretty fair shot, so I won’t spend time [...] [...] makes so much intuitive sense to me that it is difficult to even describe why that is so. In my review of Jeffrey Kripal’s book on Esalen I gave it a pretty fair shot, so I won’t spend time [...]

]]> By: Anne http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6793 Anne Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:28:31 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/#comment-6793 That's interesting, David. I don't agree with you about the book not capturing any of the essence of that power; I think Kripal's writing is very energetic and expressive. Yet any book which describes a scene without the observer having participated in it is necessarily going to seem voyeuristic to those who were there. I don't know of any way to resolve this dilemma, other than more and different books being written about Esalen, from the perspective of those who were there back in the day. That’s interesting, David. I don’t agree with you about the book not capturing any of the essence of that power; I think Kripal’s writing is very energetic and expressive. Yet any book which describes a scene without the observer having participated in it is necessarily going to seem voyeuristic to those who were there. I don’t know of any way to resolve this dilemma, other than more and different books being written about Esalen, from the perspective of those who were there back in the day.

]]> By: David http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6763 David Mon, 27 Aug 2007 02:45:40 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/#comment-6763 He may have written the history of Esalen, but as someone who participated in the transformational times of the 60's and 70's, the book strikes me as being written by some voyeur, looking through the peephole at people doing powerful things with their lives, yet capturing none of the essence of that power. He may have written the history of Esalen, but as someone who participated in the transformational times of the 60′s and 70′s, the book strikes me as being written by some voyeur, looking through the peephole at people doing powerful things with their lives, yet capturing none of the essence of that power.

]]> By: Livia http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6736 Livia Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:05:03 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/#comment-6736 Wow, the more I read about California Cosmology the more I think one has to have lived there to grasp it. It sounds so rich and varied and exotic compared to the bleak landscape of my home in the Bible Belt. But I enjoy reading your discussions, fascinating. Wow, the more I read about California Cosmology the more I think one has to have lived there to grasp it. It sounds so rich and varied and exotic compared to the bleak landscape of my home in the Bible Belt. But I enjoy reading your discussions, fascinating.

]]> By: deborah oak http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6730 deborah oak Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:35:51 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/#comment-6730 Anne, thank you. I will get this book. So interesting that Reclaiming/Starhawk essentially got 86ed (bartender language for kicked out and not allowed back) for getting into an altercation there. If life were a dream...and it is....what would this mean? mmmmmmmmmmmmm Anne, thank you. I will get this book. So interesting that Reclaiming/Starhawk essentially got 86ed (bartender language for kicked out and not allowed back) for getting into an altercation there. If life were a dream…and it is….what would this mean? mmmmmmmmmmmmm

]]> By: Helen/Hawk http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6726 Helen/Hawk Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:07:41 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/#comment-6726 i'm starting to think that next time someone asks me "what trad?".......the answer should be "CALIFORNIAN COSMOLOGY" i’m starting to think that next time someone asks me “what trad?”…….the answer should be “CALIFORNIAN COSMOLOGY”

]]> By: Anne http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6725 Anne Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:53:15 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/#comment-6725 Didn't I just do that? Sure feels like it! Reading the book really reminded me of the first time I saw that movie about the Big Sur folk fest, years ago at the UC Theater. There was Joan Baez singing, Joni Mitchell strumming her dulcimer, David Crosby and all his pals soaking in the baths, tons of people on the lawns...and I remember feeling green with envy that I had been born too late! Now I am so grateful for having grown up in the 70s instead, and feel like we all dodged a rather large bullet by *not* being part of that scene. Didn’t I just do that? Sure feels like it!

Reading the book really reminded me of the first time I saw that movie about the Big Sur folk fest, years ago at the UC Theater. There was Joan Baez singing, Joni Mitchell strumming her dulcimer, David Crosby and all his pals soaking in the baths, tons of people on the lawns…and I remember feeling green with envy that I had been born too late! Now I am so grateful for having grown up in the 70s instead, and feel like we all dodged a rather large bullet by *not* being part of that scene.

]]> By: sarah http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/comment-page-1/#comment-6723 sarah Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:18:42 +0000 http://gnosiscafe.com/gcblog/2007/08/12/the-navel-of-no-thing/#comment-6723 Thanks, Anne. Can you write that chapter of my book for me, please? Thanks, Anne. Can you write that chapter of my book for me, please?

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