The American Minervan

Tag: Western Philosophy

  • William Q. Judge on the Decline of Modern India

    William Q. Judge on the Decline of Modern India

    Interestingly, William Q. Judge was hopeful for a New Era of Philosophical Renaissance in the West through the Theosophical Movement, and foresaw a high influence (or intrusion) from India he called the “Yogi craze” entering the West. Judge might have believed, that his vision of Theosophy could curtail this current of false gurus from European…

  • Peter Kingsley: The Presocratic Sages who created Western Civilization

    Peter Kingsley: The Presocratic Sages who created Western Civilization

    Peter Kingsley on the sacred Tradition at the heart of Western Civilization “We can romanticize about the sacred origins of Tibetan Buddhism and South American Shamanic Traditions, and anything, as long as it’s not our own; and that’s apart of this tremendous understanding, this tremendous resistance. (…) and this is one of the paradoxes I…