The Path to Transcendence

The Path to Transcendence
Author: Paul Henry
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 151
Release: 1981-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0915138492

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Paths to Transcendence

Paths to Transcendence
Author: Reza Shah-Kazemi
Publisher: World Wisdom, Inc
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2006
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0941532976

Compares and shares insights into the Transcendent Absolute from the spiritual perspectives of three key historical religious figures in Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity, in a reference that focuses on a theme of transcendence and explains a spiritual vision that underlies all religions. Original.

Transcendence

Transcendence
Author: Gaia Vince
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0465094910

In the tradition of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, a winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books shows how four tools enabled has us humans to control the destiny of our species "A wondrous, visionary work." --Tim Flannery, scientist and author of the bestselling The Weather Makers What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? How did bands of hunter-gatherers evolve into multinational empires? Readers of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution -- a dramatic evolutionary change that altered our brains, turning primitive humans into modern ones -- caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues instead that modern humans are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture that goes back into deep time. She explains how, through four key elements -- fire, language, beauty, and time -- our species diverged from the evolutionary path of all other animals, unleashing a compounding process that launched us into the Space Age and beyond. Provocative and poetic, Transcendence shows how a primate took dominion over nature and turned itself into something marvelous.

Dharma, the Way of Transcendence

Dharma, the Way of Transcendence
Author: A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9171499393

The word dharma, originally from the Sanskrit, refers to the inherent, unchanging nature of something – sugar’s dharma is to be sweet, water’s dharma is to be wet, and fire’s dharma is to emit heat and light. Dharma also refers to our natural duty. We humans have ordinary dharma and an ultimate dharma that relates to who we are at soul level. That dharma requires that we ask existential questions and then seek ultimate answers – questions such as Who am I? Why am I here? and What is my ultimate purpose? Dharma, the Way of Transcendence is a compilation of lectures on human dharma given by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1972 as he toured India. Here he teaches that the dharma of all humans and every other living embodied soul – is service. No one can exist for a moment without serving someone or something else, even if it’s only the mind and senses. So the question is, whom or what can we serve if we want to be truest to ourselves?

The Lighted Path

The Lighted Path
Author: Risha Henrique
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780425154564

"This is the story of one woman's quest for the purpose of her existence. Risha Henrique, a journalist, quickly found herself entangled in a world of ancient tribal initiations with an order of enlightened beings. The initiations take her to some of the most sacred lost earth temples as well as to other dimensions of being outside of time and space. With the help of a gifted medicine woman, she learns what the future holds for herself and for humankind. Through her journal, The Lighted Path, she reveals the secrets that reconnect us to the internal intelligence and allow us to become masters of our own destiny."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Transnational Transcendence

Transnational Transcendence
Author: Thomas J. Csordas
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520943651

This innovative collection examines the transnational movements, effects, and transformations of religion in the contemporary world, offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion. Transnational Transcendence challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship—in particular, that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary. The book points out that religion's role remains understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about globalization, and it raises questions about how and why certain forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they cross national and cultural boundaries. Framed by Thomas J. Csordas's introduction, this timely volume both urges further development of a theory of religion and globalization and constitutes an important step toward that theory.

Transcendence and Self-transcendence

Transcendence and Self-transcendence
Author: Merold Westphal
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780253344137

The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly "within" the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both "within" and "outside" the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of human self-transcendence. Touching upon Spinoza, Hegel, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Barth, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion, Westphal's work centers around a critique of onto-theology, the importance of alterity, the decentered self, and the autonomous transcendental ego. Westphal's phenomenology of faith sets this book into the main currents of Continental philosophy of religion today.

The Path to No-Self

The Path to No-Self
Author: Bernadette Roberts
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1991-10-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1438417500

This book shows how, once we have adjusted to the unitive state, the spiritual journey moves on to yet another more final ending. In our major religious traditions, the outstanding milestone in the spiritual journey is the permanent, irreversible transcendence of the self center or ego. The fact that a great deal has been written about the journey to this point means that many people have come this far. But what, we might ask, comes next? Looking ahead we see no path; even in the literature there seems to be nothing beyond an abiding awareness of oneness with God. Had this path been mapped in the literature, then at least we would have known that one existed; but where no such account exists, we assume there is no path and that union of self and God is the final goal to be achieved. The main purpose of The Path to No-Self is to correct this assumption. It verifies that a path beyond union does indeed exist, that the eventual falling away of the unitive state happens as the culmination of a long experiential journey beyond the state. The author shows that a path exists between the transcendence of the ego (self-center), which begins the unitive state, and the later falling away of all self (the true self), which ends the unitive state. As a first hand account, The Path to No-Self will be of interest to those with similar experiences, or those searching for a better understanding of their own spiritual journey. Since the journey is concerned with the effects of grace on human consciousness, the book will be of interest to those psychologists concerned with the transformational process.