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Originally published in ‘The Knee of Listening’, 1972 edition by Franklin Jones (Adi Da Samraj The death-of Narcissus had begun in me. I was stuck

The following is an excerpt from a talk by Adi Da Samraj that was given on April 10, 1987, entitled ‘The Discipline of Participation‘ which

from NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF INDIA   “The hymns and prayers composing the Vedas were the work of many hands, and were written at various times,

  “We may venture to affirm, that, on attentive inquiry, we shall find in the Puranas, and other fabulous writings of the Hindus, almost the

The East-West Philosophers Conference By NEAL W. KLAUSNER Held at the University of Hawaii during the Summer of 1949   A MEETING of no minor

A Smaller SCRIPTURE HISTORY In Three Parts: Old Testament History Connection of Old and New Testaments New Testament History to A.D.70 Smith, William, 1813-1893 /

Shortly after Alexander the Great had arrived in Taxila in northern India, he sent a messenger, Onesikritos, a disciple of the Hellenic school of Diogenes, to

Bible Review 9:6, December 1993 How the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament Differ An interview with David Noel Freedman 1922-2008)   Part I

When were our Gospels Written? An Argument by Constantine Tischendorf (excerpts) (a defense of the early gospels of John, Matthew, Mark, and Luke) 1866 WITHA

One of the most intelligent early heretics was Valentinus, who came from Egypt to Rome sometime in the early part of the second century, and

The Sophists Lecture Notes of James Haughton Wood 1929   Sophists   § The sophists stand as the champions of humanism and individualism against traditionalism

STUDENT NOTES FROM WHITEHEADS’ LECTURES ON PLATO*S FORERUNNERS 1934 complited by James Haughton Woods Harvard Professor of the Philosophical Systems of India I. The Greek

The Long Road of Words and Names Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, and English The Name of Jesus   The name of “Jesus”, know today as

Dennis Klocek – On Goethe and Steiner Rudolf Steiner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 11:25 Find out more

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  Estimated to be close to 2,000 years old, the remarkably well-preserved Dead Sea Scrolls contain ancient texts of great historical importance. Since the initial

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Speech extract from “Insert Speech Title” by Alan Watts, courtesy of https://alanwatts.org.     Alan Watts opens up about Jesus and the religion. Speech extract

Paul Tillich (1886-1965), the first non-Jewish scholar that the Nazis dismissed from a university in 1933, in his writing wanted to synthesize the seemingly divergent

‘The Sophistic movement of the fifth century holds a unique position in the history of the ancient world”   THE SOPHISTS, THEIR CONTEMPORARIES, AND PUPILSIN

Epilogue – Conscious Exercise and the Transcendental Sun – Adi Da Samraj    Light, or vibratory brightness, is the most universally venerated object among men

  Sir Frederic George Kenyon (1863-1952) GBE KCB TD FBA FSA was a Greek and biblical scholar and museum director. He was the Commission’s honorary

The White Buddhist: Henry Steel Olcott and the Sinhalese Buddhist Revival  Stephen Prothero Tryicycle Magazine – Fall 1996 Vol VI – NBR 1  

Translation, Transcriptions, and Time The following is edited an adapted essay from Rev. Frederick Henry Scrivener, ‘Six Lectures on the Text of The New Testament’

Memories, Dreams, Reflections Chapter X Visions A THE BEGINNING of 1944 I broke my foot, and this misadventure was followed by a heart attack. In

  N. S. Rajaram was born on 22 September 1943 into a Deshastha Madhva Brahmin family in Mysore. His grandfather Navaratna Rama Rao was a

Allen Ginsberg: Buddhism and the Beats (2015) In 1993, Allen Ginsberg spoke to a gathering of students of the Tibetan Buddhist monk, Lobsang Samten, about

BBC Face To Face Interview, 1994 “Ah Sunflower weary of time,Who countest the steps of the sun;Seeking after that sweet golden climeWhere the traveller’s journey

Cathryn Stein Abato became a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche in 1972 and a member of the Nalanda Translation Committee in 1976.   Ms. Abato

   Units of measurement according to the Kauilya’s Arthasastra.  Arthashastra is the masterwork of India‘s greatest statesman-philosopher, Kautilya. Composed in the late fourth century BCE,

The Ideal of Human Unity was written and published in monthly installments in the Arya between September 1915 and July 1918. In 1919 it was

“And now we see militarism and commercialism united in a loving clasp, coalescing into a sacred biune duality of national life and patriotic aspiration and

“So long as war does not become psychologically impossible, it will remain or, if banished for a while, return,” he wrote in an April 1916

“However well-meaning such (western scholars) . . . and their publications are, they have taken it upon themselves the task of interpreting the past heritage

“In short, Sir, I am convinced that everything–astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc.–comes to us from the banks of the Ganges.”  François-Marie d’Arouet (1694–1778), better known by