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5 days ago · He was author of 27 books, the most recent of which is The Transcendental Temptation. Paul Kurtz dies in Octoober 2012. For this two-part interview, founder of The Skeptic, Wendy Grossman, interviewed him at his home on September 21st. 1987.
Jun 18, 2024 · Transcendentalism, 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on belief in the essential unity of all creation, the innate goodness of humanity, and the supremacy of insight over logic and experience.
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- Transcendentalism is a 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealist...
- Transcendentalism attracted such diverse and highly individualistic figures as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Orestes B...
- The 19th-century Transcendentalism movement was inspired by German transcendentalism, Platonism and Neoplatonism, the Indian and Chinese scriptures...
1 day ago · Now pertaining to art, a materialist may say that art is only aesthetics, whereas the theist might say that aesthetics are a toolkit that the artist uses to approach the transcendental, to approach something we call Beauty. Now I will focus (as I am a Christian) primarily on the second framing belief: that art is approaching the transcendental.
Jun 25, 2024 · 1. Temptations destroy us. “but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.” ( James 1:14-15) These verses describe the process of temptation.
Jun 29, 2024 · The Transcendental Meditation movement (TM) are programs and organizations that promote the Transcendental Meditation technique founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India in the 1950s. The organization was estimated to have 900,000 participants in 1977, [1] a million by the 1980s, [2] [3] [4] and 5 million in more recent years.
Jun 24, 2024 · What is Transcendental Meditation and What is It for? Faced with this situation, many people resort to what is known as ” transcendental meditation “, a type of meditation that had its origins in India more than 3,000 years ago and that manages to transmit a feeling of total peace and serenity.
6 days ago · (17) Paul Kurtz, The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal (1991) [One reader writes: “Kurtz focuses on those who ignore empirical evidence and logic in constructing a supernatural worldview.
