For the [[reader]], Huxley's anthology may validate and verify that [[moment]] in which [[self-knowledge]] moves one beyond the felt [[limitations]] of "a foul stinking lump of himself," as the classical British text of spiritual instruction, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing The Cloud of Unknowing], described it. Are such texts of spiritual instruction and the experiences of [[traditional]] mystics still of value today? Perennial Philosophy responds with an emphatic Yes! | For the [[reader]], Huxley's anthology may validate and verify that [[moment]] in which [[self-knowledge]] moves one beyond the felt [[limitations]] of "a foul stinking lump of himself," as the classical British text of spiritual instruction, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing The Cloud of Unknowing], described it. Are such texts of spiritual instruction and the experiences of [[traditional]] mystics still of value today? Perennial Philosophy responds with an emphatic Yes! |