Transpersonal Philosophy

  Let me write a somewhat rhapsodic note on the issue, which I hope we will cover in more detail and depth in understanding non-duality in the second chapter of "Path of Beauty". During the Christian Middle Ages the separation follows the principle of Ratio et Auctoritas. Communication with God is mediated by authority. Auctoritas is founded on Ratio, the priestly knowledge of the proportions that relate the two worlds: authority is the authority of ratio, of reason. It is evident that the practical result is a definitive ecclesiastical control over religious experience that prevents any spiritual flight not sanctioned by its principles. The continuity of the principle of Speech, of the Logos, which united the poet and the Human in general with Nature - the same that the Pythagoreans saw between the natural world and that of the gods via ideal proportions - is now broken in terms of proportions and unbridgeable distances that alienate Humans in the Universe. W...