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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:22:29 +1000
To: pasquier@... (Simon Pasquier)
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Anbulla Simon,

At 04:13 PM 9/9/99 +0200, Simon Pasquier wrote:
>Dear Bala,
>
>Thanks for your email. I just need some precision to understand
>it completly.
>What does exactly  means the word "agamic" ? I Searched it in an english
>dictionnary but didn t found it.
>You will understand thats its not easy then to understand"agamicpsychology".

Very good question, Simon. Keep asking them. I take agama to be "truth about
the truth" and "psychology" to be "the study of the mind". Therefore, I
comprehend Agamic Psychology to be the metatruths of the mind. Now,
religion or
"way of life" as many Tamils equate it with, purports religion to be thesame
thing - metatruths. In theory it may have been the case, but you and I know,
that in practise, the cancer of institutionalisation,the decay of the
reasoning
faculty among men, the petrification of thought, and the abundance of
herd-instinct flat-earth men, has dwindled the congruence between the two,
such
that the rump is nowhere representative of its root.

Thathuvarayan, I believe, is striving, perhaps already there (just thatlesser
mortals like me still have some way to go in comprehending the distance), in
bringing reason and religion back to their original metatruth congruence.Best
for me to leave it to Thathuvarayan to embellish, or correct me if I amwrong
here. I am very much his pupil in these matters.

>Thats true that we (my friends and I) spend all the night (we try to do
>that each 15 days) in a cafe talking about a topic.
>I m just wondering if the topics we talk about are in the right
>place here.
>Of course, cause i m Indian, sometimes its turn around India or Tamil
>Nadu.
>But cause all my friends are in fact our Phd Students In astronomy,
>we most often talk about Astronomy (will it interest people ?)

It most certainly will. Go for it. Your perspective, being based in thecradle
of the last best known Renaissance could be enlightening.
If possible mine Tamil treatises on astronomy and let us know where our
learned
ancestors were right and where they were wrong on astronomy fundamentals, in
the context of your astronomy acumen.

> or
>sometimes its more about their personnal life they talk about.

This too. The personal life comes in the presentation - we are all here to
learn and learning will be fun, if we know who we are learning from. It'salso
fun if the learning process is mixed with personal and life experience
anecdotes of the teacher. Yes, in the context of the teacher's ecosystem.The
more visual, the more word pictures, the more imagery, the better.

anbudan../bala
bala@...
sydney, australia