18-08-2011, 12:29 AM
Let me simplify your wading, Gary. We have here a search mechanism into which you can put my name and the words violent discussion... I did that search with the words separated. I'll leave it to you to find the place where they are joined.
I looked up the definition of "esoteric": "Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest."
Esoterisicm is 1. "the holding of secret doctrines; the practice of limiting knowledge to a small group. 2. an interest in items of a special, rare, novel, or unusual quality"
If I self-published the stuff and shared it widely, there is or was or can be no secrecy, even if there is limited interest among people in learning how to excel. I did share it; I remember carting the three-ring binders in a bag across the diamond to a baseball coach who said "This isn't about x's and o's, is it? i.e., You're not going to try to teach me about how to coach baseball, are you?"
If the bibliography has been published online, there is no attempt to hide it. If a lot of the books come from the rapidly-developing fields of the cognitive sciences (we had a decade of the brain recently), then it's not about spirituality, it's about synapses and hormones and practice and training.
If one can begin with 10th grade students, then it isn't intended for a small group of people with specialized interest or knowledge.
As for insinuating that you are a plant, I've done no such thing. I get that you are a mineral or some sort, perhaps a silicate, maybe an abrasive; I just don't know if you are going for grinding, or for finishing.
If you'd like to suggest an additional source through which the author puts forth a functional and applicable method to achieve personal excellence, I'm open to hearing it.
If you want to collect and publish your own approach, you probably already know how to do that.
I looked up the definition of "esoteric": "Intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest."
Esoterisicm is 1. "the holding of secret doctrines; the practice of limiting knowledge to a small group. 2. an interest in items of a special, rare, novel, or unusual quality"
If I self-published the stuff and shared it widely, there is or was or can be no secrecy, even if there is limited interest among people in learning how to excel. I did share it; I remember carting the three-ring binders in a bag across the diamond to a baseball coach who said "This isn't about x's and o's, is it? i.e., You're not going to try to teach me about how to coach baseball, are you?"
If the bibliography has been published online, there is no attempt to hide it. If a lot of the books come from the rapidly-developing fields of the cognitive sciences (we had a decade of the brain recently), then it's not about spirituality, it's about synapses and hormones and practice and training.
If one can begin with 10th grade students, then it isn't intended for a small group of people with specialized interest or knowledge.
As for insinuating that you are a plant, I've done no such thing. I get that you are a mineral or some sort, perhaps a silicate, maybe an abrasive; I just don't know if you are going for grinding, or for finishing.
If you'd like to suggest an additional source through which the author puts forth a functional and applicable method to achieve personal excellence, I'm open to hearing it.
If you want to collect and publish your own approach, you probably already know how to do that.
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"