Word: mysticisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible," exclaimed UNESCO's Julian Huxley, on the subject of yoga, ". . . for a man to control his breathing ... or get himself into a state of complete mystic exaltation? If we could find out how, there might be some way to turn these practices into a beneficial force for Western civilization...
...London, one of the King's Birthday Honors finally went to 75-year-old Poet Walter De La Mare, myth-&-mystic immortal, who became a Companion of Honor. Novelist Elizabeth Bowen became a Commander of the British Empire. William Gilliatt, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (who had just been named attendant specialist to Princess Elizabeth), got a friendly vote of confidence when he was made a Knight Bachelor...
...speakers had little advice to offer. But one whose advice seemed to make sense was the University of Iowa's President Virgil Hancher. Said he: "Somewhere along the pathway of progress the art of contemplation has been lost. The Society of Friends, certain Roman Catholics, and an occasional mystic or band of mystics have preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life, and a short one, at your disposal. Only...
Strongly influenced by the 16th Century mystic, Jakob Boehme,* Berdyaev made the cornerstone of his philosophy the concept of what he called "metaphysical freedom." He regarded creativity as man's highest expression of that freedom. Man cannot truly be redeemed, he thought, until he submerges even the problem of his own salvation in creative activity-artistic, intellectual, or in human relations...
...opened his book, and started reading, following the words slowly with his index finger. Political polity, said the introduction, was a new science that would explain most of the events of the last three thousand years. Its basis was in religion-fundamentalism and in the teachings of a Bessarabian mystic of the eleventh century. Vag read on eagerly...