by Evan Dwan | Jun 26, 2020 | News |
Transcendence is about looking outside ourselves and connecting with a larger world. It is about taking a larger perspective that includes past and future. When we practice transcendence, we move from our everyday lives into a larger way of thinking. It is linked to...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 21, 2020 | News |
Many of the early myths related to the sky. Gazing at the sky, Karen Armstrong suggests, may have given people their first notion of the divine. The sky offered a religious experience without any sense of a god behind it – it offered the essence of the mysterium...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
In her book, A short history of Myth, Karen Armstrong tells us that the purpose of mythology is to help us to live more intensely within the world. It is nearly always rooted in the fear of death and extinction. The most power myths are about extremity – they force us...
by Evan Dwan | Sep 15, 2017 | News |
“No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main”. – John Donne “The deepest need of man”, wrote the philosopher and psychoanalyst, Erich Fromm, “is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of...
