(Nick) Religious Studies PhD candidate (Rice University), MA History of Religions (University of Chicago), MA Eastern Classics (St. John’s College)
Anchorage, AK
Joined August 2012
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My most recent work on the relationship of memory to tantric mysticism and its contemporary relevance as evaluated through the lens of musical-autobiographical memory, presented a few weeks ago at this year's American Academy of Religion conference.
academia.edu/63985103/The_Wh…
"Spirit is nowhere and yet everywhere. The perfect man can penetrate the minds of others because he is based on the One. Spirit is perforce called the One and the Way. It is best to call it spirit."
-Shao Yong, "Supreme Principles Governing the World"
"The natures of human beings & other things are like sunlight penetrating through small cracks in the roof or walls of a thatched hut. Because of the different lengths & sizes of the cracks, the amount of sunlight is different; nevertheless it all is the light of the sun"
Chu Hsi
"By viewing things is not meant viewing them with one's physical eyes but with one's mind. Nay, not with one's mind but with the principle inherent in things. There is nothing in the universe without principle, nature, and destiny. These can be known"
-Shao Yong
“Followers of (all) religions find it increasingly necessary to take note of the total cosmic religious environment, which of course includes religions other than one’s own. All religions in one or another way, psychologically and/or historically, connect with one another.”
-Ong
“The Infinite had woven itself a new limited wonderer trapped inside a burden of flesh at the dissolution of which years later it would readmit to its imageless ecstasy which is not only eternal like God but I am God as you are who am me as I am you.”
-Kerouac
"contradictions, which bedevil thinking on the matter of immortality (and transcendence)... but which may be stilled by poetry through they prove an endless riddle for philosophical argument (stilled in the sense of calmed and also preserved)."
-E. Griffiths
“Seeing self by self, a yogi, being satisfied in self, experiences a supreme & endless pleasure, graspable by the intelligence though it is beyond the senses; the yogi in it becomes fixed & stable, never moving away from the reality. Once gotten nothing is better.“
-Gita 6.20-22
“It would be worthy of the age to print together the collected Scriptures or Sacred Writings of the several nations, the Chinese, the Hindus, the Persians, the Hebrews, & others, as the Scripture of mankind. This would be the Bible, or Book of Books.”
-Thoreau
“Aurobindo conceives of the world as chock full of joy. Living exclusively in a surface consciousness we are not privy to all that is going on in terms of delightful experience, but our everyday ups & downs are like aesthetic experience to the truest part of ourselves”
-Phillips
