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Archive for 'Lovers of Wisdom'

The Teachings of Iamblichus: Between Eros and Anteros by Leonard George

Among the dying oracles of late antiquity, a brilliant pagan philosopher emerged offering a religious and philosophical synthesis, the beauty of which echoes down to the present day.
Leonard George, Phd, is a psychologist and writer. His published works include Crimes of Perception: An Encyclopedia of Heresies and Heretics and Alternative Realities: The Paranormal, the [...]

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Anthroposophical and Transpersonal Worldviews by Robert McDermott

The study and practice of spirituality and consciousness have been markedly different on the East and West Coasts. Where and how does the world of Eurocentric Anthroposophy meet the more Asian and shamanistic culture of transpersonalism?
Robert McDermott, PhD, was president and is currently professor of philosophy and religion at the California Institute of Integral [...]

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Return to the Miraculous: G.I. Gurdjieff and the Way in Life by Jacob Needleman

Gurdjieff’s work offers invaluable insight into the deepest issues of the human condition and offers a profound path to greater consciousness. In this article, a leading contemporary philosopher examines the contribution of this remarkable spiritual teacher though the lens of ten archetypal questions.
This article is adapted from a talk at the New York Open Center.
Jacob [...]

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In Memoriam: Kathleen Raine 1908-2003 by Christopher Bamford

Kathleen Raine was one of Britain's deepest and most spiritual poets. A scholar of Blake and Yeats, she was also the founder of the Temenos Academy and Journal which have done much to keep alive in the modern world the vital link between the imagination and the sacred. When she died recently, we lost a [...]

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Exiling the Esoteric: Goethe and the Literary Canon by Douglas Miller

Understanding Goethe: why doesn’t he fit into a worldview that takes theory as its foundation? Is it because his path leads into life, through life, beyond life, and purely abstract ideas only serve to sidetrack and mislead on this journey?

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The Reawakening of the American Soul: On the Bicentenary of Emerson’s Birth by Richard Geldard

During his heyday, Emerson served as the conscience of the nation. He supported the Cherokee people when they were faced with ethnic cleansing, he chastised the national leadership for its expansionist policies in Mexico, and he joined the Abolitionists in their efforts to end slavery. He stands today as an American exemplar of philosophical wisdom [...]

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Teilhard, Berdyaev, and the Pull of the Future by Ptolemy Tompkins

The fiftieth anniversary of Teilhard de Chardin's death in New York City offers a perfect moment to reflect anew on the work of this spiritual philosopher and scientist. A man decades ahead of his time, his brilliant vision of an evolving universe still has much to offer us in the 21st century.

Ptolemy Tompkins is author [...]

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An Interview with David Spangler on the State of the American Soul, March 5, 2005

David Spangler is one of the most remarkable spiritual seers of our time. For many years he has demonstrated a profound attunement to the higher levels of reality beyond the material world. Yet he is a spiritual researcher with a difference — he has always had an intense engagement with current affairs and the significance [...]

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Findhorn at Forty by Ralph White

Ralph White tells of the magic of Findhorn on the occasion of the community's fortieth birthday.
Ralph White is the editor of lapismagazine.org and co-founder of the New York Open Center.
The story of the Findhorn Community in Northern Scotland has become one of the inspirational legends of the last forty years. It tells the tale of three individuals, a [...]

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Marsilio Ficino On Divine Frenzy

A glimpse into the mind of a Renaissance hermetic philosopher for whom divine frenzy is the source of love, poetry, the mysteries, and prophecy, and the greatest proof of our essential spiritual nature.
One of the exemplars of Renaissance humanism, founder of the Florentine Academy, and first translator into Latin of the Hermetic texts (at [...]