Three Kinds Of Interests

In my youth, I read a lot and what I read perhaps addressed three kinds of interests:

intellectual

imaginative

spiritual

By "spirituality," I mean inner practice of prayer and/or meditation. 

Some works address more than one such interest. Thus, Poul Anderson's sf is imaginative, is based in the physical sciences, which require intellectual understanding, and addresses the spiritual concerns of some of his characters. CS Lewis imagined other worlds and presented philosophical arguments for his beliefs about spirituality.

I am rereading Ninian Smart's World Religions: A Dialogue, a fictional conversation between a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Ceylonese Buddhist and a Japanese Buddhist. Anderson readers can imagine Axor agreeing with C (the Christian) and Adzel agreeing with JB (the Japanese Buddhist).

All reading is good and forms a continuum.

See also C And Axor. 

(I need to eat something before going out to the Zen group which hires a room in the Friends' Meeting House: two great spiritual traditions.

(Homage to the Buddha, homage to the Dharma, homage to the Sangha.)