Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00078)

Sufilight asked: 
> 1. My question is now if you are only collection physical scholary
> "refutations", so to make the true "fleas" go away ?
> 
>> *******
> 
> Allright.
> First refutation: Some books (and therefore also websites) act as 
deliberate
> spiritual 'decoys'. (taken from Idries Shah "Learning how to 
learn".)
> 2. Is that not enough ?

1. I'm not collecting anything except documents from northeastern NC 
in search of family history. That answers for "now" in the sense of 
this entire decade; before that my scholarly preoccupation from 1995-
99 was the Edgar Cayce readings. No one has ever accused me of being 
a skeptical debunker in the context of that book, or of being someone 
who wanted to make the true *anything* go away. If anything I erred 
on the side of credulity, probably.

2. No, that just adds attribution of evil motive to your assertion 
that the statements about Shah are "clearly false." Rather than 
arguing about the intentions of various authors I would be interested 
in actual discussion of evidence about Shah's imposture. But it 
appears we won't have that, so on to another topic.

Cheers,

Paul