lbo-talk-digest V1 #4836

[Kenneth MacKendrick]

At 09:46 AM 9/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 21:03:25 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Thomas Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: Spirituality and humanism
>
>However I cannot arrogate to myself, or anyone else
>for that matter, to say that all spiritual pursuit is
>an alienation of man's own power into a hypothetical
>being.  For example, what can we say of a-theistic
>spiritual paths such as Zen?

See Slavoj Zizek, On Belief (2001).

"Western Buddhism" presents itself as the remedy against the stressful 
tension of the capitalist dynamics, allowing us to uncouple and retain 
inner peace and Gelassenheit, it actually functions as its perfect 
ideological supplement.... (pg. 12).

ken