Ten Articles and Chapters on the East in the West

 

The West and the Other https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-west-and-other.html?spref=tw #Abstraction,#Definition #East, #Paradox #Philosophy #Religion #Taoism #Theology #West

Wikipedia page on Indra's net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s_net It is one way of characterizing the plenum underlying physical reality. The idea may have found its way into Kubrick's 2001. https://t.co/vBEyo0Q1ON

The Age of the Lord Buddha. Does he belong in the middle of the first millennium BCE, or at the beginning of the second millennium BCE? #Bimbisara #Buddha  #China #Philosophy #Chronology #Puranas #RigVeda #Mahabharata http://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-age-of-lord-buddha.html?spref=tw 

How old is the idea of Vishnu? http://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2015/04/how-old-is-idea-of-vishnu.html #2ndMillenniumB.C.E #Being #Brahma #Hinduism #Image #Mekong  #Shiva #Trimurti  #Vishnu 

Pythagoreanism, the Divine, and the Nature of Eternity https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2019/09/pythagoras-and-transcendentalism.html?spref=tw #Pythagoras #Pythagoreanism #Divinity #Eternity #Religion #Transcendentalism #Mathematics #Geometry #Commensuration #Surds #Plato

What is Philosophy? [The origin and the importance of philosophy, in 1100 words].  https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-is-philosophy.html?spref=tw #Philosophy #Pythagoras #Plato #Platonism #Transcendentalism #Reality #DivineCult #Sophist #Republic 

What We Have Lost, and How the Ancient Concept of the Cosmos Died. https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2019/03/what-we-have-lost.html?spref=tw #Plenum #Transcendence #Materialism #EuropeanEnlightenment #Buddhism #Theravara #Philosophy #Ritual #Reality #Excellence 

The Tangled Thread: Universals in History. #Mesopotamia #Universals #AncientGreece #DivineStatues #Thresholds #Rationalism #EuropeanEnlightenment #Descartes #Abzu #Enki #Ea #Knowledge https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-tangled-thread-universals-in-history.html

Thomas Taylor and the Ancient Theology https://shrineinthesea.blogspot.com/2019/04/thomastaylor-and-ancient-theology.html?spref=tw #ThomasTaylor #Polytheism #Monotheism #Theology #AncientTheology #Philosophy #Iamblichus #Plato #Platonism #Pythagoras #Eurocentrism

The Double Nature of Reality. https://t.co/lE1ixLjfX5 #Statues #Reality #DivineCult #Paradox #Infinite #Finite 

Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/03/13/wolfgang-pauli-carl-jung-figuring/ via @brainpicker #Pauli #Jung #Physics #Archetypes #Paradox