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Show 586 NOTES FOR CHAPTER III: THE PATHLESS WAY AND THE RANGE OF LIGHT (101) Awakening: The discussion in this chapter is indebted to Doug Robinson, "The Climber as Visionary," Ascent, vol. 6, No. 3 (May 1969) pp. 6-9; and Tom Lyon, "A Mountain Mind," The Mountain Spirit, ed. Michael Tobias (Woodstock, New York: Overlook Press, 1979), pp. 22-27. (101) " . . . Spirit of holy Light": JoM, p. 82. (101) "Mountains holy as Sinai": JoM, p. 92. (102) Natural Man and the sacred spiritual state: see R.W.B. Lewis, American Adam, pp. 2 3-25. (102) "got religion": Bade, I, p. 218; April 10, 1870. (103) "navel of the earth": see Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane, p. 20. (104) Baptism in Yosemite Falls: JoM, p. 61-62, April 3, 1871; his best published account, "Treasures of Yosemite," The Century Magazine, vol. 40, No. 4 (Aug. 1890); Kimes #181, (104) "In the Heart of the California Alps," Kimes #100; the narrative retitled "A Near View of the High Sierra" as it appears in MoC, pp. 48-73, is most accurate, and I follow it, with exceptions noted. (105) The nature of Enlightenment: D.T. Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series (New York: Grove Press, 1961), p. 156. (106) "After gaining a point . . .": MoC, pp. 64-65. |