Transcendence

Religion has existed since the beginnings of humanity. People have always yearned for a divine being that is both distant and familiar to the common man. While religion stems from the spiritual teachings of a religious leader, it can also be defined merely as an outlet or activity pursued with keenness and dedication. Much like music, art, and dance, which is open to interpretation, religion allows people to escape reality. However, because of the ideas and beliefs that religion entails, it is…

Today, I will be talking about Transcendental Meditation and what patterns are found in the EEG scans of research subjects. Neuroscience is a complicated field, yet enlightening. So, what do we see? First, higher frontal alpha 1 coherence. Second, activation of the default mode network (DMN). Third, a lower breath rate. Lastly, all those distinguishing characteristics “are seen within the first minute of Transcendental Meditation practice” (Travis, 2018). During Transcendental Meditation…

Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris on January 9th, 1908 to a Catholic mother and an atheist father. At the age of fourteen, she followed her father’s steps and practiced atheism. When Beauvoir was twenty-one, she attended the Sorbonne and specialized in philosophy, a male dominated field. She was the ninth woman in France to pass the comprehensive philosophy exam and to receive her degree. During her studies, Beauvoir met philosopher, novelist, and playwright Jean-Paul Sartre. Both…

The NILD Level III technique, Proverbs, lends the therapist the opportunity to mediate toward an ability to use inferential-hypothetical thinking during the elaboration phase of the mental act. According to Mandia Mentis, Dunn-Bernstein, and Martene Mentis (2008), an individual with restricted use of inferential-hypothetical thinking will be unable to think of alternative solutions to common problems or to make generalizations and inferences. These students view the words as disconnected and…

From Detachment to Authentic Forgiveness, Empathy, and Hope: Participating in the Spirit’s Solidarity with the Poor and Sinners Calvary starts with Jack’s confessional with his face blurred by the screen. Rather than a usual listing of grave sins, the man begins with announcing that was molested by a priest for five years as a boy. Now, he is looking for someone to compensate for the sin of the priest. Since the priest who violated him is dead, and above all, killing a bad priest would not…

Philosophy and Literature Final Exam Dr. Charles Nussbaum Submitted By: Srijana Timalsina 1. What is reflective equilibrium? Summarize briefly but accurately the thought experiments posed (respectively) by Thomson and Dennett in their articles. Explain how the experiments are designed to affect our intuitions about specific cases and state the principles that you believe must be brought into…

within the transpersonal theories, self-actualization (inherent tendency for people to express innate potentials of love, creativity, and spirituality) and self-transcendence (completion and fulfillment of self in communion…

Or our old sport Gatsby? It actually relates to our society today. It can be argued that Daisy did not reach self-transcendence, but that Gatsby did, and that Nick Carraway simply had an epiphany. Gatsby risked his life and reputation to keep Daisy safe, and paid for it with his life. His highest goal was to preserve her well-being. At the same time, Nick Carraway realized…

Interreligious Dialogue Approach: “Doing Before Knowing” with James Fredericks Tension between Evangelization and Interreligious Dialogue Practicing interreligious dialogue invites the Christians to be aware of any triumphalism when investing their energies in the goal of Christianity’s “eschatological hope.” Fredericks observes that official teachings of the Church confuse us about the meaning of dialogue; for example, the two documents Dominus Iesus and Redemptoris Missio reads,…

his contemporaries, ends up contravening his own pious principles. According to Marcel Gutwirth “sex, in this particular case, upholds the cause of this worldliness immanence, broadly speaking as over against the charade of otherworldliness, of transcendence, played out by ce bon Monsieur Tartuffe.” The outraged household is hindered in the realization of their frivolous aspirations and as a result defy Tartuffe for attempting to control them. Gutwirth explains that “the totalitarianism of…