Comments on: XSLT as Mumonkan http://wrythings.net/2008/03/01/xslt-as-mumonkan/ words worth reading Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:22:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: michael http://wrythings.net/2008/03/01/xslt-as-mumonkan/comment-page-1/#comment-3760 michael Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:16:32 +0000 http://wrythings.net/2008/03/01/xslt-as-mumonkan/#comment-3760 We tend to be oblivious to the degree to which magical thinking penetrates our day to day life... even much of our 'well reasoned discourse' is suffused with it. We tend to be oblivious to the degree to which magical thinking penetrates our day to day life… even much of our ‘well reasoned discourse’ is suffused with it.

]]> By: John Powers http://wrythings.net/2008/03/01/xslt-as-mumonkan/comment-page-1/#comment-3755 John Powers Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:14:38 +0000 http://wrythings.net/2008/03/01/xslt-as-mumonkan/#comment-3755 Not directly related, but I just read a Psychology Today article which reminded me of the wild fox koan http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=20080225-000003&page=1 It's about magical thinking. The article includes some categories like the "sacred" which I think ought to be studied without the stigma of magical thinking--at least there are some good argument why religion and magic are not the same. Still I rather liked the article. "To be totally 'unmagical' is very unhealthy," says Peter Brugger, head of neuropsychology at University Hospital Zurich. Not directly related, but I just read a Psychology Today article which reminded me of the wild fox koan http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=20080225-000003&page=1

It’s about magical thinking. The article includes some categories like the “sacred” which I think ought to be studied without the stigma of magical thinking–at least there are some good argument why religion and magic are not the same. Still I rather liked the article.

“To be totally ‘unmagical’ is very unhealthy,” says Peter Brugger, head of neuropsychology at University Hospital Zurich.

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