Meister Eckhart
by Raymond Bernard Blakney · first published 2003
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Meister Eckhart: A Modern Translation by Meister Eckhart and translated by Raymond Bernard Blakney: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6885348-meister-eckhart Other notable authors, titles, and subjects, some that…
on “Ask HN: Mind bending books to read and never be the same as before?” ↗…novel and thinking, 'Holy shit, he's hit the nail on the head!' I'd happily run a class on it. Whenever anyone asks for a reading list, it's often on there. I take the novel as a mystic work, much like Meister Eckhart's works. It's a pendulum swing between the secular and the sacred.
on “On “A Canticle for Leibowitz”” ↗…both raised in, and still live in, the "Bible Belt" as well. I've studied most world religions, have read quite a bit in that arena from the esoteric like "A Course in Miracles", "The Book of Urantia", Meister Eckhart, much of Jiddu Krishnamurti, the Tao Te Ching, etc etc to formalized things like William James's the variety of religious experience. I've had my own, I would say spiritual rather than religious, experiences…
on “In Retrospect: The Selfish Gene” ↗…problematic reification of their respective "worlds". The integral or aperspectival structure additionally involves going beyond the previous four structures in something akin to Buddhist or Christian (a la Meister Eckhart) enlightenment as understood in terms of the perennial philosophy.
on “Jean Gebser: The Ever Present Origin (1949)” ↗…relation to geographically unrelated beliefs. One interesting bit he mentions is how dangerous it could be to be one of those people without being in some prophetic or theologically defensible position; Meister Eckhart being quoted heavily talking about the divinity of god being in all things, in a similar way as hinduism or etc might talk about divinity/all being in all things. Of course he eventually was tried as…
on “Internet Sacred Text Archive” ↗…history of panentheism in both. Ibn Arabi, probably the most famous Sufi scholar was known for defending it ("[God] sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man"), Meister Eckhart and the Rhineland mystics held similar views etc. Of course that often got them into hot waters with Orthodoxy but it certainly existed and continues to exist. A lot of these traditions are much more…
on “The two Christian saints who are the Buddha” ↗