{"id":2304,"date":"2023-05-02T06:36:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/evelyn-underhills-stunning-century-old-manifesto-for-secular-transcendence-and-seeing-the-heart-of-reality-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T06:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T10:36:53","slug":"evelyn-underhills-stunning-century-old-manifesto-for-secular-transcendence-and-seeing-the-heart-of-reality-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/evelyn-underhills-stunning-century-old-manifesto-for-secular-transcendence-and-seeing-the-heart-of-reality-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Evelyn Underhill\u2019s Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and Seeing the Heart of Reality \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The great paradox of consciousness is that it constitutes both our entire experience of reality and our blindfold to reality as it really is. Forever trapped within it, we mistake our concepts of things for the things themselves, our theories for the universe, continually seeing the world not as it is but as we are. The supreme frontier of human freedom may be the ability to accept that something exists beyond understanding, that understanding is a machination of the mind and not a mirror of the world \u2014 that the world simply is<\/em>, and our consciousness is a participant in its being but not a creator of it. <\/p>\n

The English poet, novelist, mystic, and peace activist Evelyn Underhill<\/strong> (December 6, 1875\u2013June 15, 1941) explores how to do that in her 1914 book Practical Mysticism<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a> | public domain<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 a field guide to mystical experience that is secular rather than religious, the product of \u201cordinary contemplation\u201d springing from the very essence of human nature, available to all. <\/p>\n

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