From:    Jan Willem Nienhuys
To:      All                                    Msg #82, Jun-30-93 12:04AM
Subject: Re: Are science and religion compatable?

Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
From: wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
Message-ID: <20rhdq$ft@rw7.urc.tue.nl>
Newsgroups: sci.skeptic

In article <1993Jun29.160851.23910@fsl.noaa.gov> bear@kestrel.fsl.noaa.gov
(Bear Giles) writes:
>In article <20p3di$lhc@rw7.urc.tue.nl> wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem
>Nienhuys) writes:
>>
>>Mysticism and ritual are mostly gone. Even New Agers blab about
>
>_Some_ new agers blab like that, but others are pursuing legitimate
>mystical interests.  I would suggest you pick up a copy of _Gnosis_
>if you think mysticism is dead or only a surface patina.

I wrote *mostly gone*, I didn't write *gone*.  About half the U.S.
population takes the Bible literally, and the number of atheists and
agnosts is small (less than a million in the U.S.).  How large is the
circulation of Gnosis?  How many mystics are there in the U.S.?