Transcendence

what the meaning of life is. Instead, he shows Siddhartha the way to identify the close unity between himself and the flow of the river, to listen to the river and introspect for an understanding of the message which the river renders. No teaching or preaching is provided by Vasudeva, he even does not articulate what the river will unfold, but when Siddhartha discloses his feeling of unification with the unending flow of the river, Vasudeva acknowledges the affinity of the perceived wisdom…

making it an outlet of escape for Lucy. Beethoven’s Opus 111 is mentioned. The narrator notes Lucy’s ability to play this piece despite its, “winding intricacies.” Famous pianists such Robert Taub call Opus 111 “a work of unmatched drama and transcendence ... the triumph of order over chaos, of optimism over anguish.” Others, like John Lill view the sonatas as, “physically challenging” for a pianist performing this work.” Beethoven compositions, in Mr. Beebe’s opinion, were intended to be…

Understanding Science Fiction as a genre, as well as a device to tell stories that consider a potential future, begins not with understanding science but rather understanding the ways in which humans have and continue to perceive and govern the world. We are a curious species, one that has been innovating existence since the first anthropoid apes and questioning our place in the larger universe since the first remnants of religion. Currently we are at a point in history where we believe our…

I always considered my-self a “numbers” type of guy than one who excels in writing. Throughout my entire academia english classes have always been and shall be the bane of my school work. I never fully had the confidence in my english work or in any of my written assignments to begin with, however it was not for the lack of trying but more of the thought of failure. The new techniques I learned in the class has given me some insight towards my style of writing and its execution. Evaluations from…

meditation. Accordingly, because of Mauna being sacred silence, a Muni is said to be ecstatic. (Tapa done by a Muni is Mauna). He is said to transcend the human condition. He stands (stasis) outside (ex) his ordinary egoist personality. This self-transcendence takes one to the state of ecstasy, with the psychic conditioning temporarily suspended in utter bliss. Sacred Silence leads to stillness. And that stillness opens the dimension of spiritual existence - that luminous world that awaits our…

the ecstasy occurring within Garson’s psyche. Garson is literally in the process of abandoning the mundaneness of humanity and is experiencing the entirety of his universe; the warmth he is describing is purely the physical manifestation of his transcendence. The literary techniques authors employ have profound effects on the way reader’s digest and synthesize the content of a text. Phillip Dick, in his short story The Electric Ant, mobilized a plethora of stylistic devices to encrypt the…

Billy’s ordinary world was cluttered with fear which stemmed from an unhealthy childhood. Abraham Maslow, one of the founding fathers of humanistic psychology in the1940’s, created the Hierarchy of Needs. “The lower the needs in the hierarchy, the more fundamental they are...” (Tay, Diener, changingminds). Maslow created a pyramid to model the five most important human needs, “essential for evolutionary survival” (Tay, Diener). Billy’s mother and Nurse Ratched were oppressive and unbalanced…

For many, questioning their place and value in the natural world is a common thought. Today, we attribute that that philosophic endeavor to environmental theory. This branch of philosophy is centered on defining the true value and aesthetic significance of earthly nature. Beginning in the Romantic era of the early 19th century, this movement developed as a result of environmental concerns of the industrial revolution. This inspired poetically personal contemplations on the human environmental…

Margaret Atwood’s dystopian MaddAddam trilogy is a text that enters a speculation into a post-apocalyptic fall-out of environmental disaster and autocratic corporations, a global pandemic and extreme bio-scientific experimentation provide the catalysts for feminine subjective becoming. Atwood positions the book as a treatise on the ambiguous potential of powerful tools, and the role of humanity in determining the fit use for such tools: "Our tools have become very powerful. Hate, not bombs,…

as the person changes drastically, often assuming an altered personality and outlook toward life. They may lead to value and life changes similar to those reported following spiritual awakening, including enduring self-transformation and self-transcendence, and are not associated with prior religious affiliation or religiosity, nor are they typical of those resulting from traumatic experience (Greyson…