Papers by Harry Oldmeadow
The Message of the Tibetans, 2023
The Preface to the 2023 edition of Arnaud Desjardins' "The Message of the Tibetans".
The Essential Whitall Perry, 2023
An introduction to the life and work of Whitall Perry (1920-2005), the editor of "A Treasury of ... more An introduction to the life and work of Whitall Perry (1920-2005), the editor of "A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom" and several books expounding the perennial philosophy.
Persons of Interest, 2023
An overview of the life and teaching of Ramana Maharshi (1879-1950).
Persons of Interest, 2023
A short exploration of the most distinctive aspects of the spiritual personality and practice of ... more A short exploration of the most distinctive aspects of the spiritual personality and practice of the great Indian saint, Paramahamsa Ramakrishna (1836-1886).
Persons of Interest, 2023
A brief account of the life and work of the Algerian Sufi Saint, Shaykh Ahmad Al-Alawi (1869-1934)
Persons of Interest, 2023
A sketch of the life and work of Kallistos Ware (1934-2022), Orthodox scholar and theologian, aut... more A sketch of the life and work of Kallistos Ware (1934-2022), Orthodox scholar and theologian, author of "The Orthodox Church" and "The Orthodox Way".
Persons of Interest, 2023
A sketch of the life and work of the Greek poet and novelist, Nikos Kazantzakis (1883-1957).
Persons of Interest, 2023
An overview of the life and work of the English poet and author, Kathleen Raine (1908-2003), part... more An overview of the life and work of the English poet and author, Kathleen Raine (1908-2003), particularly in relation to the perennial philosophy and to the Temenos Academy.
Persons of Interest, 2023
A sketch of one of the great saints of modern India, Anandamayi-ma (1896-1982)
Asian Philosophy, Nov 1, 1997
Doers of what is hard are the Bodhisattvas, the great beings who have set out to win supreme enli... more Doers of what is hard are the Bodhisattvas, the great beings who have set out to win supreme enlightenment. They do not wish to attain their own private nirvana. On the contrary. They have surveyed the highly painful world of being, and yet, desirous to win supreme enlightenment, they do not tremble at birth and death.
Mester, Nov 16, 2011
But, of course, this is only one facet of a very complex phenomenon. At least since the time of t... more But, of course, this is only one facet of a very complex phenomenon. At least since the time of the classical historians and playwrights the East has also been depicted not only as exotic, mysterious, and alluring, but as sinister, dark, and threatening. Stephen Batchelor has put the matter in psychological terms: In the European imagination Asia came to stand for something both distant and unknown yet also to be feared. As the colonizing powers came to identify themselves with order, reason and power, so the colonized East became perceived as chaotic, irrational and weak. In psychological terms, the East became a cipher for the Western unconscious, the repository of all that is dark, unacknowledged, feminine, sensual, repressed and liable to eruption.
Sydney Studies in Religion, Sep 19, 2008
Exotericism consists in identifying transcendent realities with the dogmatic forms, and if need b... more Exotericism consists in identifying transcendent realities with the dogmatic forms, and if need be, with the historical facts of a given Revelation, whereas esotericism refers in a more or less direct manner to these same realities. FrithjofSchuon 1 If we can grasp the transcendent nature of the human being, we thereby grasp the nature of revelation, of religion, of tradition; we understand their possibility, their necessity, their truth. And in understanding religion, not only in a particular form or according to some verbal specification, but also in its formless essence, we understand the religions... the meaning of their plurality and diversity; this is the plane of gnosis, of the religio perennis, whereon the extrinsic antinomies of dogmas are explained and resolved. FrithjoJSchuon 2 
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Papers by Harry Oldmeadow