... assuming by the level of ... intellectual level, if ... religions. ... right with God, and ... fact, we can never ... up to the mystics, ... the the...
Harold, You suggested that I pray my rosary (or was it that I put it aside?). I haven't practiced this devotion regularly for some time. As I said, my comon...
Harold, Here's an interesting link to a group that is trying to keep alive the Medievel concept of the rosary guild craftsmen. They have some interesting...
Hello, I recently joined and thought I would introduce myself. I am a 34 y/o teacher of young children who enjoys learning about many things. I hope to...
Christina, Welcome to the group! I look forward to your contributions! As you know, perhaps, Thoreau was a teacher for a while himself. He and his brother ran...
What happens in the stillness of the cocoon is far more wondrous than the voracious eating that goes before or even the pretty flutterings that come after....
... This blurb carries the usual Emerson-worshiping assertion that Waldo Emerson was at 18 years of age the youngest of his Class of 1821, making it seem as if...
I guess that's based on a misunderstanding of how college differed between then and now. It was almost like highschool now. On the ohter hand, in the Middle...
... the voracious eating that goes before or even the pretty flutterings that come after. << Are you calling my posts "pretty flutterings"? Dems fighten...
... No, I suggested you go get it to enter into a state of reverence. In short I assumed that you used one and depended upon it. My bad. This is why this...
... Harvard College then was like one of today's American High Schools -- that require students to have mastered Latin and Greek, and be able to take part in...
Harold, No worries! Its just that I come from a Russian Orthodox background, before my conversion (or re-conversion, I was baptized Catholic) to Catholicism....
... between ... - that ... take part ... before they ... Austin, I believe I read that they didn't even have to attend lectures and that many wealthy young men...
Published on Tuesday, May 2, 2000 in the Boston Globe Emerson, Thoreau, and the Walk for Hunger by James Carroll In 1837, an economic bust hit New York,...
... that ... I believe that if they *had* followed the ideals of Thoreau, the farm would not have even started. Thoreau was loathe to be part of any such...
This was a very good post. Working in the IT/Internet industry it has become more and more interesting to look at the way technology impacts on our lives in a...
... about it ever happening. And when I finally gave up, and stopped trying to be something, my eyes were opened to see Magic, God, Grace, Tao, Buddhaland,...
Janak, It seems to me there will always be a need to come apart from society for a while. The experiment seems to differ very little from Thoreau's experiment...
... trying to be ... Buddhaland, and the ... them. ... tho, because: one, ... wonderful post ... what you have seen ... would realize that you ... make...
... As an example (and I could indicate much more, even from the writings of others, if I had more time to research): "Go fish and hunt far and wide day by day...
... writings ... Remember ... the ... and ... Take ... not ... own ... are, ... Farm) "short ... (Brook ... Janak, Hmmm. So are you suggesting that it was...
... communal ... beliefs ... Hi Ron, I'm not suggesting anything, except that it seems to me that Henry did not wish to get involved, for some reason. He was...
... he ... responsible ... Janak, Are you suggesting that Henry was simply opposed to communal living arrangements or that he had philosophical disageements...
... Brook ... Ron, concerning Brook Farm, I know little or nothing, except this: Regarding the purpose of Brook Farm, George Ripley, the founder, resigned his...
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What Heresy? The things NeoGnostic seekers want in Christianity--experiential insight, mysticism, a direct link to God-are already there. by Frederica...
Hello. I just joined this group. I also joined the "Transcendentalists" list to see if it ever becomes active again. I read that the people there "migrated" ...
... Henry remarks in his journal printed by Princeton University Press (1981) of 1837 thru 1844: "God does not sympathize with the popular movements." So maybe...
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