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We are too civilized to sit on a bed of spikes, too active to squat a lifetime away in an ashram, too intellectual to accept mythological stories written for primitive tribes, and too aware of science's creative usefulness to be willing to condemn it outright as Satanic because it was not mentioned in these stories. Every form of spiritual escapism--whether a revived medieval European form or a dying modern Indian one--which evades these problems is merely a narcotic which dulls our intelligence.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 182