There are two posts in reply to Koenraad Elst's post at Cybalist in
response to John Landon at The Gurdjieff Con blog. The links are below.
The issues to me are very simple:
1. The legacy of Indian spirituality is very ancient, and goes back very
early
2. There isn't anyway to backdate Vedic Sanskrit to very early times, e.g.
4 or 5000 BCE
These two issues make the critiques of AIT problematical
John Landon
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In a message dated 6/27/2010 12:43:17 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
koenraad.elst@... writes:
Dear listfolk,
The OIT preceded the AIT. It was articulated since the beginning of IE
studies, e.g. Schlegel 1809, and even before the IE kinship was properly
understood, by Voltaire. By the mid-19th century, the AIT gained the upper hand.
While this shift was not engineered by a colonial-racist conspiracy, as
some Hindutva polemicists allege, it certainly was facilitated by tacit
background assumptions of European superiority, at a time when fabulous India
was being reduced to just another colony....
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