Facets of Fat

ARISTOTLE REPRIMANDED GREENHORN scientists in his Academy for their immature disgust toward the gross and unappealing in nature. “The consideration of the lower forms of life ought not to excite a childish repugnance. In all natural things there is something to move wonder" (Boorstin 51). He believed that all things looked at impartially are manifestations of the divine. Ralph Ralph Waldo Emerson Waldo Emerson extended Aristotle's estimate of the beauty of nature into the process of death itself: “There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. Even the corpse has

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Wilber and Watershed: Criterion for Religious Legitimacy and Authenticity

MOST OF MY adult life I have asked, "How can I know this is true?" concerning whom or what I put my trust in. It's a broad, maybe naive, question, applicable to any discipline from science to history, up through hard-to-fathom philosophical doubts and down to our need for assurance in our friendships and ethics. Ken Wilber's integral philosophy spans every conceivable discipline but the way he applies his own unique "testing" method to spirituality is particularly important to me.

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