After all, I'm conditioned to thinking that if one honestly seeks, they find—certainly, that's been my experience! So does that mean only ~25% are being honest about their seeking?
Well, the immediate question that comes to mind is, what were they each actually seeking? You should not assume it was the same thing as you are. You are of a mystical bent, drawn toward devotion to the highest levels of divinity. In the cases of Davidson and Guthrie, it seems quite possible that they, like many of an academic bent, may have actually been seeking to buttress their already existing religious or philosophical frameworks. Such an approach is usually quite comforting, even if it doesn't result in a lot of spiritual change. And if that is what they were searching for, then that is likely what they found!
Of course I don't really know anything about either of them. But to me that's a very plausible explanation for as to how one could miss the deeper or subtler points in these texts even after decades of study.
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Date: 2023-03-04 03:10 pm (UTC)Well, the immediate question that comes to mind is, what were they each actually seeking? You should not assume it was the same thing as you are. You are of a mystical bent, drawn toward devotion to the highest levels of divinity. In the cases of Davidson and Guthrie, it seems quite possible that they, like many of an academic bent, may have actually been seeking to buttress their already existing religious or philosophical frameworks. Such an approach is usually quite comforting, even if it doesn't result in a lot of spiritual change. And if that is what they were searching for, then that is likely what they found!
Of course I don't really know anything about either of them. But to me that's a very plausible explanation for as to how one could miss the deeper or subtler points in these texts even after decades of study.