From: REjohnmartin@akapost.comDIRECTEDEMAIL   
      
   On Sat, 6 Aug 2011 19:13:15 -0400, VD wrote:   
      
   > The mind, a terrible thing? To waste?   
   >   
   > As HRH grow up in front of our eyes, their characters develop, their   
   > essence never changes.   
   >   
   > Harry is our spiritual leader, transforming and transfiguring his   
   > soul, learning in many ways to be the exact opposite of Hermione.   
   > Harry the Soul stays on his essential, righteous course, teaching us   
   > about choices and results of choices. That life is a journey with a   
   > purpose not a simple trip through an extended library of facts.   
   >   
   > Ron is Ron. Family oriented, salt of the earth, as spiritual as a rat,   
   > if not for following Harry along, we could easily see him plodding   
   > through Hogwarts and ending up, well, just as he did. Overweight,   
   > boring; where getting his quite necessary Muggle driver's license a   
   > major achievement of 19 years of effort...and he had to cheat to do   
   > that.   
   >   
   > What we have in Hermione as the intellect is a tightly wound, facts   
   > only, individual who only friends has inside the Harry circle. Her   
   > fellow Gryffindors' put up with her, rarely sitting with her at   
   > Quidditch or anywhere else for that matter. Her social development is   
   > retarded, intellects want facts not intangibles, not real   
   > relationships. Intellects certainly don't transform themselves   
   > spiritually.   
   >   
   > Ms. Rowling has reminded us often how she is HJG, insecure,   
   > relationship tainted, an intellect who never thought she was "writing   
   > a fantasy series" until she had written one. As Hermione struggles   
   > with all things spiritual so does Ms. Rowling by her own admission.   
   >   
   > Who Hermione is is most about what she is not. What interest she has   
   > in life things Harry is learning, the transfiguration of his soul by   
   > making the right, selfless choices, she can only absorb or experience   
   > through him.   
   >   
   > Her entire life is built around these facts which keep her from   
   > burrowing below or above them. To see the life past the veil or   
   > acknowledge that such a life actually exists.   
   >   
   > Aw, isn't this the lesson of  the Seeker? You have to trust   
   > your spontaneity, make choices often based on gut feelings, that facts   
   > are material and superficial and often simply get in the way of a   
   > proper life journey. Hermione teaches us very little with one   
   > exception. Don't be like her, facts will bury you.   
   >   
   > The mind, a terrible thing? To have?   
      
   In Divinity School, I took a course called Jesus and the Intellectual   
   The underlying theological message was that our intellect keeps us   
   focused on how much smarter we are than others, and this keeps us from   
   seeing that there may be a higher intelligence than ourselves.   
      
   The intellect is very much a "material good ion a material world" and   
   has little to so with gaining Heaven.   
      
   Faith and intellect are often on a collision course.   
   --   
   http://youtu.be/xQVbBjgBS6A   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)