From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V6 #54 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Sunday, September 19 2004 Volume 06 : Number 054 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] transcendentalism, Part II ["Passe, Jeff" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:00:20 -0400 From: "Passe, Jeff" Subject: [JP] transcendentalism, Part II Hey Poets, I'm surprised and pleased to see such thoughtful activity among this group. I didn't mean to make it a generational thing, although I realize I did do just that. Of course, there are free thinkers at every age, just as there are closed minds at every age. There are lots of circumstances that go into one's spiritual leanings (including one's parents, for sure.). I was trying to say that not having significant exposure to alternate ways of thinking may be one of those factors. My distress over the criticism wasn't over the attitudes of the masses. That is to be expected. It's that those dismissive people were open-minded in so many other ways. By the way, unless I misunderstood, the comments weren't over Namaste, particularly, but of TK's spiritual side. There's an album by Carole King from 1977 called Simple Things. I say album because it was never released as a cd. It has some of the best pop-spiritual songs since George Harrison's early solo work. Anybody heard it? For what it's worth. Jeff Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V6 #54 *********************************