American Philosophy since Ralph Waldo Emerson has had a strong connection to Eastern Enlightenment traditions. Emerson was reading the Bagavad Gita, the Tao Te Ching, and Zoroastrian texts as they were being translated in the west for the very first time in the early 19th century. He passed these on to his disciples and Henry [...]
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Karma, Eastern Thought and the American Mind
Posted by Jeff Carreira on March 21, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/03/21/test/
The Non-Dual Awakening of Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the themes that I intend to develop in this blog is the understanding of non-duality. Non-duality is a term that means literally – “not two.” It is used in philosophy, but even more so in teachings of spiritual enlightenment particularly of an eastern flavor. Non-duality in the context of enlightenment is pointing [...]
Posted by Jeff Carreira on February 7, 2009
http://evolutionaryphilosophy.com/2009/02/07/the-non-dual-awakening-of-ralph-waldo-emerson/
