Thanks very much for your thoughtful comments.

I think I was referring not to Enlightenment here but to the relatively new discovery of our complex inner subjective experience. Modernism seemed to be all business and no reflection. Post-modernism seems to be all reflection and no business. I definitely agree that there’s a lot more to the picture than the post-modern soup were in right now.

Steiner is a favorite of mine. Have you read his Philosophy of Freedom? I’m not sure I understand his main point, but there’s some great points in it that I’ve found very powerful in my own investigation. I think this book has been working on me since I read it 3 years ago.

Regards,
Stuart

I feel the work of Steiner should be re-discovered here.[ Steiner, Sartre, Jourdain.] The immersion of the Absolute in our Relative lives is done everyday. It is just a huge mistake of the Traditional Oriental Enlightenment to believe that when one is Enlightened one ha to “go away from the world”. In the West the initiated have known for a long time that this is not true.

Absolute can be found in an Absolute way in the Act of Pure Thinking and in the Free Will. To acts which transcend Absolutely the Relative. The genius of the Occident is to have found this. Descartes, Newton and the others where Enlightened in the World, because they knew about Pure Thinking. To get a genius of that caliber from the East you need to wait for Shandrasekar or Ramman in the 20th century.

Maybe it is time we re-connect to our Roots ?
IN that light yes, Enlightenment should produced Geniuses…