| | Well, as noted in another topic, you can get Tea Party people in a tizzy over Ayn Rand. So, yes, all manner of mystics are aghast.
Before we selected Austin as our new home, my wife suggested Sedona, but gave that up when I couldn't stop laughing. I said that I was going to open The Temple of Apollo and teach "Logic, the left-brain philosophy of the ancient Greeks."
But we have taken community ed classes in yoga and also in tai chi. And I own an I Ching and a Tao Te Chi in bilingual presentation. We were happy when someone gave us tickets to hear the Dalai Lama. He is a nice guy and very worldy in a mystical kind of way.
Ayn Rand wanted to make a moral issue out of tofu. In Atlas Shrugged, Ivy Starnes promoted soy over wheat.
It is famously known to millions of insiders that Ayn Rand initially wrote a rational priest into Atlas Shrugged -- Catholic priest, not Zen Buddhist priest. Clearly some forms of error are better than others. But it is interesting to view the intersections and overlaps. For a variety of reasons, Catholic nuns in India are targeted subjects of rape. To defend themselves as non-violently as possible, they learn karate. Their sen-sei find them very discipliined. The same is said by firearms instructors who teach nuns.
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