The participatory turn and the transpersonal movement: a brief...

ReVision;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......and Jacob Sherman's anthology The Participatory Turn in Spirituality, Mysticism, and Religious...ReVision's double monograph explores the participatory turn in a wider canvas, addressing questions...anthropology of consciousness. The participatory turn can be seen as the second turn ...

BELIEFS HELP PEOPLE DEAL WITH INEXPLICABLE.(LIFE)

The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC);  February 22, 2000 ;     626 words ......the humanly inexplicable. First, from the view of the Western mind: dualism, with a belief in God. Second, the Western mind, atheist; and third, the Eastern mind: monism. The Western mind that believes in God also believes there are forces...

Prejudice or Reason?(book)(Book Review)

World and I;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......authoritarian faith. THE CLOSING OF THE WESTERN MIND The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason...Freeman's recent book, The Closing of the Western Mind, puts in modern guise the classic History...craving for security. The Closing of the Western Mind is thus in the tradition of the ...

Freeman, Charles. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and...

The Review of Metaphysics;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...FREEMAN, Charles. The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reasons. New York: Alfred...faith and fall of reason, culminating in the closing of the western mind, Freeman's bold thesis. Instead of a considered evolution...

Against the West; Islamic radicals hate us for who we are, not what we...

The Washington Times;  July 4, 2004 ;     700+ words ......self-sacrificing hero; contempt for the Western mind and its celebration of reason and...death. Occidentalism disdains the Western mind as too rationalistic. The West is a mind without a soul. The Western mind stands in opposition to culture...

Quantum warriors

The Independent - London;  June 25, 1995 ;     700+ words ......represents a future possibility for the Western mind, and that through a dialogue with it...the analytic, linear thinking of the western mind would make it impossible for us to enter...language contains material to blow the western mind - and usefully so. It could make quantum...

Letters

The Washington Post;  June 12, 1996 ;     599 words ......is West, and never the twain shall meet." In my view, the Western mind has difficulty understanding the Indian philosophy of life...opposites. Perhaps the aspect that is most puzzling to the Western mind is the ability of the Indian mind to accept the coexistence...

ALL OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM SHOULD NOT BE PORTRAYED AS STRUGGLE AGAINST...

The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  October 12, 2004 ;     631 words ......Terrorism has been used as a political tool for millenniums. What puzzles the Western mind are the suicide attacks. I beg to disagree! They do not puzzle this Western mind. Although the use of suicide by non-Muslims has been less widely publicized...

The Closing of the Western Mind: the Rise of Faith and the Fall of...

History Today;  December 1, 2002 ;     659 words ......letter to Aelafius, the Oration to the Saints and the Orcistus inscription are not taken into account. The atrophy of the western mind between Leo and Aquinas is made to seem all the more acute by the omission of Boethius, Bede, Eriugena and Anselm--a quartet...

In "The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of...

KRT Photos;  February 11, 2003 ;     158 words ......KRT RELIGION STORY SLUGGED: RELIG-LITERARYSPIRIT KRT PHOTO VIA DALLAS MORNING NEWS (February 11) In "The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason," author Charles Freeman writes about the history of ideas and their connection...

Dennis McCort. Going Beyond the Pairs: the Coincidence of Opposites in...

Symposium;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......this book (for example, this hallowed Western mind-set, oriented to an extra-mental truth...academics continue to caricature the Western mind. Thirty-five years after Derrida's De...dwell on another obvious point, that the Western mind, whatever that phrase means, seems to...

Standing on sandy land.(News)

Sunday Tribune (South Africa);  December 17, 2006 ;     114 words ......be ungodly and who seek, via the destruction of the wicked, to return the world to the conservative rule of their god. The Western mind, perhaps because of moral relativism, seems unable to grapple with the simplest ethical issues and, has resorted to attacking...

Understanding Islam; Dubuque author hopes to educate

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  October 8, 2005 ;     592 words ......Drummond, author of the recently published "Islam for the Western Mind," takes issue with the notion that Islam is a religion of...Inquisition and the Crusades. News You can use What: "Islam for the Western Mind: Understanding Muhammad and the Koran" Who: Richard Henry...

(book review)

History: Review of New Books;  March 22, 2000 ;     682 words ...Padfield, Peter Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind New York: Overlook Press 340 pp., $35.00, ISBN 1-58567-002...fairness to Padfield, Maritime Supremacy and the Opening of the Western Mind has numerous merits. Individual naval campaigns are adroitly...

Jesus wanders into Islington THE LAST SUPPER X Glyndebourne

Evening Standard - London;  October 23, 2000 ;     373 words ......invitations - according to Harrison Birtwistle's American librettist Robin Blaser, elderly and white-haired like God came from "the Western mind. They want us to look with them through the three zeros of the year 2000". One mystery about bluff Birtwistle, whose few...