listic comments on Crowley on Religious Experience - Less Wrong

36 Post author: Yvain 26 March 2009 10:59PM

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Comment author: listic 27 March 2009 02:46:22PM 1 point [-]

Can you please quote the source?

This seems like a well-sounding anecdote, which I appreciate. But I would like the facts.

Personally I doubt that Jobs learned only just that in India. I'm willing to find out just what he found there.

Comment author: badger 28 March 2009 03:13:15AM 7 points [-]

Here is the best source I can find: http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/36/04717208/0471720836.pdf This appears to be the first chapter of iCon by Jeffrey Young and William Simon.

The story of Jobs in India starts on page 23.

From page 25: “We weren’t going to find a place where we could go for a month to be enlightened. It was one of the first times that I started to realize that maybe Thomas Edison did a lot more to improve the world than Karl Marx and Neem Kairolie Baba put together.”