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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Vedanta"”.
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Exploring the Nature of Reality in Science Fiction through the use of Taoism and Advaita Vedanta
The Man in the High Castle and Distances use non-dual philosophy to move beyond post-modernism, toward a recognition, appreciation, and reconfiguration of the boundaries of reality. The inclusion of Taoist and Advaitic philosophy in High Castle and Distances is not simply an aesthetic that lends …
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The Hindu concept of pure consciousness in the poetry of pure consciousness in the poetry of Juan Ramón Jiménez, Rabindranath Tagore, and W. B. Yeats: a comparative study
… parallels the psychology and philosophy of Vedanta, which is that aspect of Hinduism which probes the nature of consciousness by distinguishing between the ultimate Reality or the Absolute (<em>Brahman</em>) and the cosmic illusion or the phenomenal flux (<em>Maya</em>). Central to Vedanta …
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The attainment of moshka according to Shankara and Vivekananda with special reference to the significance of scripture (sruti) and experience (anubhava)
Advaita Vedanta, as systematized and expressed by Shankara (788-820), is widely represented in contemporary studies as positing a special experience (anubhava) to be the ultimately valid source of the knowledge of brahman (brahma jnana). According to these studies, Shankara only accorded a …
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WITHIN THE HEART OF EVERY HUMAN BEING: SARAH FARMER, HER LIFE, HER WORK, AND HER SEARCH FOR UNIVERSAL TRUTH
… were particularly notable in the history of Vedanta, Transcendentalism, New Thought, and Baha’i. Ultimately Greenacre acted as a major force in disseminating a new spiritual inquiry focusing on Universal Truth, and incorporating a cosmopolitan, global orientation toward religion, science and …
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De la filosofía al silencio, del silencio a lo real. Una invitación al autoconocimiento absoluto.
… como las vertientes no-duales del yoga, el vedanta, el tao y el zen, ofrecen aproximaciones más directas al saber de lo real cuando cuestionan la idoneidad del pensamiento y la experiencia como medios para el autoconocimiento, invitándonos a explorar las dimensiones de silencio y quietud que …
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The extraterritorial quest for justice: the case for imposing a "duty of care" on parent companies in the absence of a binding business and human rights treaty
… on the United Kingdom Supreme Court ruling in Vedanta v Lungowe and discusses how the landmark ruling will impact future cases of this nature and in particular The Kabwe class action before the Johannesburg High Court in South Africa. The question that this dissertation seeks to address is “how …
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The Unforgiving Margin in the Fiction of Christopher Isherwood
… alternatives. Chapters 2 and 3 are devoted to Vedanta, one of the six schools of Hindu thought that would become central to Isherwood's life from July of 1939 until he died in 1986 and that is at the heart of Isherwood's final novel, A Meeting by the River (1967). In that work the margin and …
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Inviting the Other: An ethnographically-informed social history of Sat Tal Christian Ashram
… by Brahmanical idioms and Advaita Vedanta philosophies. Chapter 4 contextualises and summarises a crucial shift that occurred at STA in 1991: a ‘School of Evangelism’ (SoE) was formed which attracted individuals from low-caste backgrounds who had recently converted from Hinduism. I …
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Beyond the Dualism of Creature and Creator: A Hindu-Christian Theological Inquiry into the Distinctive Relation between the World and God
This thesis is one particular way of clarifying how the God Christians believe in is to be understood. The key conceptual argument which runs throughout the thesis is that the distinctive relation between the world and God in Christian theology is best understood as a non-dualistic one. The ‘two’ …
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Truth as Relationship: The Psychology of E. Graham Howe
Dr. Eric Graham Howe (d. 1975) was one of the most important psychologists in early 20th century Britain. Yet, for the most part, his work is relatively unknown. Howe was unjustly dismissed by the psychoanalytic community of his time. Howe was not only left out of the history of psychoanalysis, but …