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The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 1989-08-28 | Author:Alan Watts [Watts, Alan]

In times past, recognition of the impermanence of the world usually led to withdrawal. On the one hand, ascetics, monks, and hermits tried to exorcise their desires so as to ...
( Category: Humanism November 11,2014 )
Fate, Time, and Language by David Foster Wallace
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:David Foster Wallace

NOTES 1 Richard Taylor, “Fatalism,” Philosophical Review, 71, 1 (1962): 56-66. 2 Richard Taylor, Metaphysics (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1963), ch. 5. 3 Steven Cahn, “Fatalistic Arguments,” this JOURNAL, 61, ...
( Category: United States November 11,2014 )
13 - Relativity, Philosophy & Mind by Paul Brunton
mobi |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

4 Its Realization Beyond Ecstasy 4.1 Mysticism And Mystical Philosophy Compared 1 Philosophy clears away all the unnecessary mystery from mysticism, while preserving a proper attitude of awe and reverence ...
( Category: Metaphysics October 27,2014 )
15 - Advanced Contemplation ; The Peace Within You by Paul Brunton
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

7.1 Experiencing The Passage Into Contemplation 61 As he enters this immobile state, not only do his eyes close to the scenes of this world but his mind closes to ...
( Category: Metaphysics October 27,2014 )
16 - Enlightened Mind, Divine Mind by Paul Brunton
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

5.6 Qualifications For Discipleship 148 The sage is not eager to welcome those whose chief qualification is only an ephemeral enthusiasm. To admit the wrong class is to bring eventual ...
( Category: Mysticism October 27,2014 )
14 - Inspiration & the Overself by Paul Brunton
mobi |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

5 Preparing For Glimpses 5.1 How To Attract A Glimpse 1 To describe the wonders and benefits, the delights and beauties of these glimpses will whet the appetite of people ...
( Category: Mysticism October 27,2014 )
10 - The Orient by Paul Brunton
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

2.8 Shankara 410 Kamakoti Peeta's Shankara does not shake hands when parting. He merely raises one open hand upward in front of him, with palm facing the other person, as ...
( Category: Metaphysics October 27,2014 )
06 - The Ego ; From Birth to Rebirth by Paul Brunton
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

2 Rebirth And Reincarnation 1 The wheel of life does not stop for long – soon it will turn again and pass from the point of death to the point ...
( Category: Psychoanalysis October 27,2014 )
05 - Emotions & Ethics ; The Intellect by Paul Brunton
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

5.6 Forgiveness 314 The necessity of forgiving others what they have done to us is paramount. Nay, it is a duty to be constantly and unbrokenly practised, no matter what ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality October 27,2014 )
08 - Reflections on My Life & Writings by Paul Brunton
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

5 The Literary Work 5.1 For Kindred Souls 1 I write for those who have felt the truth in intuitive flashes as well as for those who must be argued ...
( Category: Metaphysics October 27,2014 )
09 - Human Experience ; The Arts in Culture by Paul Brunton
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

4.3 Historical Perspectives 85 The history of a nation is really a translation from the history of its soul. 86 History returns periodically to the same basic problems, the same ...
( Category: Metaphysics October 27,2014 )
12 - The Religious Urge ; Reverential Life by Paul Brunton
mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-10-03 | Author:Paul Brunton

6.5 Intolerance Toward Philosophy 144 The sage of former centuries was prudent in the presence of established religious authority. He took care to avoid being persecuted for heresy, although he ...
( Category: Metaphysics October 27,2014 )
Does Santa Exist? by Eric Kaplan
epub |eng | 2014-09-22 | Author:Eric Kaplan

9 Pain Is Comedy Minus Time As luck would have it, the television show The Big Bang Theory has a scene that deals explicitly with one of the themes of ...
( Category: Love, Sex & Marriage October 27,2014 )
Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age - A Manifesto by Vitale Christopher
epub |eng | 2014-09-25 | Author:Vitale, Christopher [Vitale, Christopher]

Networks are immanent. If everything is related to everything else, and the fundamental stuff of the world is self-differing, there is no need to imagine that the source of the ...
( Category: Humanism October 11,2014 )
Speculative Realism by Gratton Peter
epub |eng | | Author:Gratton, Peter

3. Feminist theory should not, she argues, depict culture as that which overcomes nature, since nature and culture are not different in kind. In her view, “language, culture, intelligence, reason, ...
( Category: Metaphysics October 9,2014 )

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