From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]"
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To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2016 1:20 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] The UK Dome 20 Years On
The triumphal trumpet,
radical transcendentalists in the postmodern age...
With these short words I think you may have undercut the movement's attempt at
respectability.
"Radical means advocating advocating complete political or social reform or
supporting an extreme section of a idealistic movement."
"Transcendentalism is an idealistic philosophical and social movement that
developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by
romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity
pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on
feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were
central figures."
"Postmodernism is an era and a broad movement that developed in the late-20th
century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism which marked a
departure from modernism typically defined by an attitude of skepticism or
distrust toward grand narratives, ideologies, and various tenets of
Enlightenment rationality, including the existence of objective reality and
absolute truth, as well as notions of rationality, human nature, and
progress.It asserts that knowledge and truth are the product of unique systems
of social, historical, and political discourse and interpretation, and are
therefore contextual and constructed."
Postmodernism also exhibits a high degree of irrationality, at odds with
science.
It seems to me this kind of language does not really suit the Transcendental
Meditation movement which prides itself on a public face of religious
neutrality, scientific rigor and as not being a lifestyle or philosophy.
It creates a sense of extremism and religious advocacy which does not forward
the movement's public image they have cultured for the last 45 years or so, to
avoid the appearance of crass Hinduism.
The movement has enough trouble with this as it is.
What do you think is the best way for TM to be promoted to modern, rational
people that have perhaps paid lip service in the direction of spiritual
activities, people who are basically secular in outlook and desire?
Dome - 20 Years On
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