Month: February 2007
Vegetarian hermits, 17th century England
Reading The Bloodless Revolution, a Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times, by Tristram Stuart. A striking fact in seventeenth-century Engl...
Reproducing the sage III
In reproducing or approximating the sage, much depends on our definition of the sage, or at least on what sort of human context we conceived. The historical Jes...
Reproducing the sage II
By “reproducing the sage” I mean recreating the psychological setting if not the actual physical situation of the historical sages as a way of appro...
Reproducing the sage
The emergence of formal religious hierarchy, whether in traditional or esoteric religions, signaled not the maturation of the thought of the founder but the end...