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Getting off the Wheel: A Conceptual History of the New Age Concept of Enlightenment
Abstract
Although many new agers believe that enlightenment is the end goal of spiritual development, the importance of this concept has largely been overlooked by scholars until now. This article contextualizes the concept of enlightenment historically. After a detailed description of what the new age concept of enlightenment entails, it traces the origin of the concept to the late 19th-century “Oriental reaction” to Theosophy, when “missionaries from the East” like Vivekananda and Suzuki drew on transcendentalism, Theosophy, and recent innovations in psychology to articulate a paradigmatic expression of Asian soteriology. It highlights the importance of models of enlightenment in the transmission of Asian ideas and follows the trajectory that starts with Vivekananda and Suzuki to figures and currents like Aldous Huxley, 1960s counterculture, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and neo
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Stanford Historical Society Collections
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- Title:
- A Conversation with the Deans of the School of Humanities and Sciences, 1988-2018 : An Oral History
- Author:
- Beasley, Malcolm R., Shoven, John B., Thomas, Ewart A. C., Saller, Richard P., and Long, Sharon R.
- Topic:
- Deans (Education), Universities and colleges, and Undergraduates
- Subject:
- Stanford University. School of Humanities and Sciences
- Physical Description:
- 1 text file
- Date:
- June 5, 2018
- Collection:
- Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2013 (inclusive)
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- Search for "socialization" in document text
15 Richard Sailer Kleinheinz Family Professor of European Studies Biography Richard Sailer was the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences from 2007 to 2018. Previously he was provost and dean of the Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago. He taught at Swarthmore College and held v
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Hearts & Minds Books
Allow me to be candid. This best of the year thing is tricky. I want
you to enjoy my celebrations and accolades, so the column is hopefully
somewhat amusing and informative. I do want to be sincere, naming books
that truly deserve honorable mention and that we deem to be important
for our audience. Late as I am, I know what other lists have touted and
I’m tempted to just mimic those who are smarter than I. Yet, I usually
offer awards for books that we have carried and that I have read, not
necessarily the best the world has to offer, but the best we’ve been
pleased to review and sell. So, for instance, I know that Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen is one of the best novels of the year—my wife
couldn’t put it down—but I haven’t gotten to it yet. (I did love the
weird and wondrous The Corrections.) So I can’t really list his
new one, since I haven’t read it