The Age of Reason refers to the period in European, British and American history in which the rationalist philosophies of Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Gottfried Leibnitz (1646-1716), Bendedict de Spinoza (1632-1677) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) were major influences in the universities and among the highly educated and ruling classes of Europe, Britain and the United States. Each of these philosophers believed in God but their primary emphasis was on human reason.
What if the living God is not missing out in the mystic heavens somewhere but is as close as our next breath? Could it be that in all our long searching for God, we have forgotten the age-old truth to end all truths that God is innate in us, and yes, that means all of […]
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Amongst the oft quoted utterances of the Sufi mystic Rumi is the following little gem. “Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.” As stressed in my last post, I have become convinced after many years on the trek that the heart above all is the center of spiritual action. The quest par excellence
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