Psychologia Perennis: the Spectrum of Consciousness
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In the past few decades the West has witnessed an explosion of interest among psychologists, theologians, scientists, and philosophers alike in what Huxley (1970) has called philosophia perennis,the 'perennial philosophy', a universal doctrine as to the nature of man and reality lying at the very heart of every major metaphysical tradition, whether that of the Hindus, the Buddhists, the Amerindians, the Christian mystics, the Taoists, the Sufis, the Kabbalists, the Neo-Platonists, or, more recently, some Western scientists (LeShan, 1974; White, 1972). In all essential aspects, this doctrine has remained unchanged in over 3000 years, for it purports to represent a Reality untouched by time or place, true everywhere and everywhen, since, in the words of St. Augustine, it is a "Wisdom that was not made, but is now what it always was and ever shall be."
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