Mankind's" history was dominated by violence, whether its political war, domestic violence, social violence or personal violence, violence had abided in our culture visibly and invisibly. In a general accepted point of view, violence and its implements on the body is a cognitive immor...
Fully realizing the truth is having transcended the distortions of the Machine (see The Machine at my web site given below). ... In perception of this is a place where consciousness dwells, a place beyond time, beyond space; thus there is no time, and no space. ... To a perceiver focused on the distinguishments, and on the illusions of time and space, such phenomena of the mind appear miraculous; but they are only the result of some 'total spiritual', and mentally-free perception in an individual. ... The Symbolism of Light As is discussed in The Key to Self-Actualization (v...
The speaker remarks that the thought of those "forms of beauty" described above created in him sensations of peace and tranquility in the midst of everyday strife: "mid the din / Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, / In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, / Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart, / And passing even into my purer mind / With tranquil restoration" (27-31). ...
Under the anthropological problem we have the problem of Reality, Nature of Reality, Appearance and Reality, Change and Permanence, Space and Time, Causality, Freedom and Determinism and the Mind-Body problem. ... On the other hand, Substance Dualism (or Cartesian Dualism) argues that the mind is an independently existing substance the mental does not have extension in space, and the material cannot think. ...
Though I share Phillips's belief that "we need to cure ecocriticism of its fundamentalist fixation on literal representation," the larger theory and critique of ecocriticism of the sort he pursues is beyond my scope here. (8) Rather, in paying greater attention to the sort of ecological literacy or, less anachronistically, the natural history writing and thinking that emerge in Emerson as it does in Thoreau, I will be arguing that both writers complicate the assumption that the literal and literary senses of things can be separated irreducibly in this way. ... On my reading, Emerson has...
