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| | Enlightenment.Com - Psycho-Spiritual Content Generating Community Infrastructure |
 | | The Enlightenment of esoteric, spiritual traditions denotes the individual’s deep experiential process of spiritual awakening, of "being awake and alight." It is the sacredization of the human being. | | | The word "Enlightenment" has been used to designate two distinct traditions: the Enlightenment tradition of Western civilization, originating in the Age of Reason of the 17th and 18th centuries; and the Enlightenment tradition of the world’s esoteric spiritual teachings, especially of the East, and particularly of Buddhism. | | | I call the spiritual enlightenment of esoteric traditions the "First Enlightenment" and the intellectual enlightenment of the Age of Reason the "Second Enlightenment." The Third Enlightenment designates the higher unity of the First and Second Enlightenments, existing as a unified, universalistic cosmovision, co-evolutionary with a new mode of consciousness. |
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http://www.enlightenment.com/blogs/j/jordan/jordan3/archives/2004/08/the_second_enli.html
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| | The Bodhisattva Concept |
| | The concept of bodhisattva, along with that of Buddha and of the cakravartin (world-ruler), was in vogue in India even before the appearance of Gautama Buddha. | | | Later, its use was extended to denote the period from Gautama's conception to the enlightenment and, thereafter, to all the Buddhas from their conception to Buddhahood. | | | The concept of bodhisattva (meaning Buddha-to-be) is one of the most important concepts in Buddhism. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/bodhisattva_concept.htm
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| | the concept of enlightenment is a concept, the phenomenon of enlightenment (nirvana) is not | | | Removing Ignorance IS Enlightenment refutation: Ignorance IS the Fall Guy for Overintellectualism | | | only thing that stands in the way of Enlightenment is ignorance. |
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http://www.luckymojo.com/avidyana/dozen/files/not/ignorance.!
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| | Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Quotes: T.W. Adorno on Kant, the Division of Labor & Restriction of Reason |
| | The first is that in Kant enlightenment always refers to thought that does not allow itself to be dictated to; you have to have the courage to think for yourself as far as possible according to the principle of autonomy, that is, the laws of thought. | | | You can probably see from all this that the claims that enlightenment has been overcome, completed and then simultaneously superseded, are not entirely unproblematic. | | | However, this tendency both to exalt reason to the skies and, at the same time, to reduce it to a mere reasoning, is rooted in Kant, the allegedly radical exponent of enlightenment. |
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http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/adorno11dv.html
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| | Christian Enlightenment |
| | The oil of enlightenment is put in the latern by Jesus, but supplied by God the Father. | | | Christian Enlightenment is a movement to bridge the gap that exists between Christians and non-Christians. | | | A sacred fire within enlightenment illuminates the secrets of the heart and the knowledge of the mind. |
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http://thinkunity.com/page4.html
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| | AikiWeb Aikido Forums - Gaining Enlightenment? |
| | If you are interested in the Buddhist concept of enlightenment and how to obtain it, then you may want to take a look at www.buddhanet.net, where they address many of your questions. | | | And I can tell you, seeking enlightenment was the last thing on my mind at the end of a two-day class that dealt with the symbolism of the Chinese soul as found on a Han-dynasty burial robe. | | | Mystical / irrational enlightenment is meaningless, cannot be understood, nor taught, and should be disregarded. |
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http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/printthread.php?t=8219
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| | Knights of Enlightenment |
| | A typical textbook introduction tells students that the thinkers of the Enlightenment rejected superstition and blind faith, extolled reason, and viewed it as the crucial means of improvement in all areas of human life. | | | With apologies to Herr Kant, the Enlightenment I have attempted to depict here is not a bastion of pure reason, but a philosophical adventurer and trespasser, not to say cross-dresser. | | | I try to respond to twentieth century critiques of the Enlightenment, especially those brought up by Adorno and Horkheimer in the early part of the century and more recently by Michel Foucault and some of his followers, and by Edward Said, and many of his. |
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http://www.knightsofenlightenment.net/Enlightenment6.html
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| | enlightenment: OPAR, Chapter Three |
| | A clear sign of the failure to formulate proper definitions is the claim that concepts are interchangeable with their definition. | | | There are two parts to a proper definition, both of which follow from the nature of concept-formation. | | | At an early age simple, obvious characteristics may suffice for a definition; but later, when one knows more aspects of reality, the same characteristic(s) may be inadequate to the task. |
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http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/essays/text/opar/03.html
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| | Spiritual Enlightenment |
| | Sometimes enlightenment means the attainment of a certain stage of Being. | | | But we cannot use the concept assuming it means the same thing in all teachings or traditions. | | | Actually, there is no universal or agreed upon definition, or even understanding, of the concept of enlightenment. |
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http://www.ahalmaas.com/glossary/e/enlightenment.htm
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| | Enlightenment |
| | The whole concept of Deyang being in jail was just mind-boggling to me, as I had understood Deyang to be a very highly respected gong fu and Buddhist master at Shaolin. | | | I truly believe this when enlightenment comes it will be so simple that I won't realize how I missed it. | | | And, surprisingly, my fears and predictions, and the "negative thoughts" that had been thrown at me, came true in the late summer of 2000, all well documented in the Destruction section of this part of the site. |
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http://www.russbo.com/fugue/enlightenment.htm
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| | And, while I am arguing that the Enlightenment concept of beauty remained pertinent long after its enunciation by Shaftesbury, Addison, and others, we should also recognize that today this concept seems perhaps more urgent than it has been in some time. | | | Technically, Jameson’s interpretation of postmodernism is “beautiful” in the Enlightenment sense: it unifies the apparent chaos of pomo diversity through a single harmonizing feature: the workings of capital. | | | “Aesthetic education” thus reasserts itself as an ideal in an age which is both “post-modern” and “enlightened,” and therefore undyingly—and unnervingly—“cool.” |
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http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/Wickman.htm
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| | The Dyad Way To Enlightenment - spiritual path based on communication |
| | If we want Enlightenment we must do more than clean up our communication cycles and tell our truth, we must also protect people from unwanted contamination. | | | The Dyad Way To Enlightenment - spiritual path based on communication | | | Our next three-day Enlightenment Intensive starts November 17, 2006 |
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http://www.dyad.org
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| | Modern Chinese Historiography and Historical Thinking |
| | It should be noted that the historiographic appropriation of the term 'Enlightenment' took place against the backdrop and as a secondary theatre of the fervent debate over the "sprouts of capitalism" (ziben zhuyi de mengya) and the ensuing periodization problems inherent to this notion. | | | It appears that in this stage the notion of 'Enlightenment' was closely linked to the two concurrent concepts of 'Renaissance' (wenyi [wenxue, guxue] fuxing) and 'Reformation' (zongjiao gaige), which came into great vogue during the May Fourth Movement. | | | Interestingly, the same argument is at the core of the recent emphatic reappraisal of the European "Enlightenment Project" from a New Confucianist standpoint (Tu Wei-ming). |
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http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~schneiderahb/hg/Mittag.htm
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| | Philosophy of Embodiment |
| | It is especially known for revealing the body, self, and world in a manner that challenges assumptions imbedded in a web that includes Cartesian dualism, Galileo-Newtonian mechanistic logic and industrial- enlightenment epistemology. | | | We will devote the first nine weeks of the course to understanding Phenomenology of Perception. | | | More specifically, students are to achieve an in-depth understanding of a tradition of twentieth-century philosophy called phenomenology, and to see how a phenomenological concept of body contrasts with a traditional enlightenment and scientific concept of body. |
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http://www.millsaps.edu/philo/3110.shtml
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| | Bernier Consultants |
| | An International 2nd Enlightenment Conference will be held in Columbia, SC in February '06 cosponsored by the Global Affairs Council and COTF. | | | It is the framework of these new principles that has been identified as principles for a 2nd Enlightenment. | | | Details for the conference will be completed by April '05. |
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http://www.futurconsult.com/pages/290167
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| | gizmag Article: zaZen shows new ways to automotive enlightenment |
| | After all, Zen — borrowed from Buddhist teaching — is a special form of insight that is only attainable if you are prepared to give up preconceived ideas. | | | This time it has conspired with Bayer Material Science to create a single-section roof dome made of the high-tech polycarbonate which enables some interesting illumination properties, including a holographic brake light. | | | The innovative light is also an important step for Rinspeed's boss, Frank M. Rinderknecht, on the way to attaining automotive enlightenment. |
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http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/4939
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| | ATA - About |
| | Taylor’s argument for multiculturalism, Habermas’ conception of communicative rationality, Berlin’s pluralism, Arendt’s definition of the public space, Foucault’s attempt to retrieve marginalized discourses and ways of shaping identities. | | | The first section will discuss the meaning of Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, as defining the first and main framework for a modern approach to the philosophical origins of nation/nationalism/nationality. | | | First, the meaning and role of reason as defined by Kant and Hamann. |
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http://www.antenna.nl/ysy/ksu2001/originationalism.html
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| | HIST153 - Sophomore Seminar: Enlightenment Concept of the Self |
| | HIST 153 SP This course explores several Enlightenment thinkers who grappled to understand the paradoxes of the self at a time when traditional religious and metaphysical systems were disintegrating. | | | HIST153 - Sophomore Seminar: Enlightenment Concept of the Self | | | Please include a url, course title, faculty name or other page reference in your email |
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http://www.wesleyan.edu/wesmaps/course0304/hist153s.htm
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| | The Noli-Fili: Towards A Post-Enlightenment Concept of the Nation |
| | shall explore this concept of the nation by discussing two hitherto unstudied aspects of the Noli-Fili: | | | Besides the duty of every one to seek his own perfection, there is the desire innate in man to cultivate his intellect, a desire the more powerful here in that it is repressed. | | | The answer is, interestingly, prefigured in Chapter 7, "The Friar and the Filipino." The key to this chapter is its subtitle, "Vox populi, vos Dei." |
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http://www.univie.ac.at/Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/history/nolifili.htm
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| | Cartesianism |
| | He literally, at an age most people first graduate from college nowadays, quietly and methodically went about tearing down all previous forms of knowledge and certainty and replaced them with a single, echoing truth: Cogito, ergo | | | René Descartes is perhaps the single most important thinker of the European Enlightenment. | | | One's essential identity is one's mind and the interior processes of the mind have more reality than the physical processes of the body. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/GLOSSARY/CARTES.HTM
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| | geertz |
| | The stage setting (in different times and places) is, indeed, altered, the actors change their garb and their appearance; but their inward motions arise from the same desires and passions of men, and produce their effects in the vicissitudes of kingdoms and peoples. | | | It neatly sets a mid-20th century view of culture in opposition to the typical Enlightenment view that the superficial diversity of culture masks an underlying - and readily discovered - universal uniformity: the homogeniety of humanity. | | | The Enlightenment view of man was, of course, that he was wholly of a piece with nature and shared in the general uniformity of composition which natural science, under Bacon's urging and Newton's guidance, had discovered there. |
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http://instruct.uwo.ca/anthro/025/geertz.htm
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| | Seeing Through Seventeenth Century Eyes |
| | It would not be unfair to say that a culture's concept of an individual underlies every aspect of the culture's world view. | | | From this concept is built our entire world view concerning the nature of society, politics, government, authority, economics, and even science. | | | Making knowledge is simple: you figure out what you don't know by using what you do know. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/111/4.HTM
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| | Reconstituting the Body Politic - Enlightenment, Public Culture and the Invention of Aesthetic Autonomy - Jonathan M. ... |
| | The concept that art must have no instrumental function is a doctrine traditionally traced back to Kant's Critique of Judgment. | | | In Reconstituting the Body Politic, Jonathan Hess proposes that this concept of autonomous art marks not a withdrawal from the political realm but the ultimate embodiment of Enlightenment political culture, a response to a crisis in the institution idealized by Jürgen Habermas as the bourgeois public sphere. | | | Hess explores the moment in late 18th-century Germany that witnessed the emergence of two concepts that marked the modern era: the political concept of the public sphere and the doctrine of aesthetic autonomy. |
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http://wsupress.wayne.edu/literature/kritik/hessrbp.htm
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| | CGTalk - Enlightenment, Vajra Pancharia (2D) |
| | this image is the representation of the spiritual light that enlightens the humanbeing....and his soul gets united with the god | | | CG Challenge XVI - Grand Space Opera - 3D | | | CGTalk > Gallery > Finished Work: 2D, Illustrations and Concept Art |
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http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=297143
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| | Hype Cycle |
| | Although the press may have stopped covering the technology, some businesses continue through the "slope of enlightenment" and experiment to understand the benefits and practical application of the technology. | | | Hype Cycles also show how and when technologies move beyond the hype, offer practical benefits and become widely accepted. | | | A technology reaches the "plateau of productivity" as the benefits of it become widely demonstrated and accepted. |
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http://www.gartner.com/pages/story.php.id.8795.s.8.jsp
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