Quote from: joywind on May 27, 2013, 06:27 pmWhat he taught was essentially the same thing taught by Gautama, Jesus, Krishna, Laozi, etc -- just translated into the language of 20th century science and philosophy. His ideas were traditional, but his style was modern. In some ways I agree and in others I disagree. I think he based his thoughts on old philosophy but he merged some of them throwing out the old elements because at many times he points out the flaws in many belief systems and how they are non-compatible with others. He was very much a man who believed in the natural order of things and strongly differed from Christianity for example for believing that humans were in some way special, but in fact we are still just another spec in the world of nature and so we should realise we are one with nature, not in some way synthetic.