Introduction Everything in life comes from practice – “the deliberate repetition of an action with an awareness of what we want to achieve.” (1) “Learning to center your attention on the process of what you are doing instead of what you are trying to achieve, using the goal as a rudder instead of a reminder of what […]
Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Two themes of the book: Taboo as a spontaneous device for protecting the distinctive categories of the universe. Taboo protects the local consensus on how the world is organized. Reflections on the cognitive discomfort caused by ambiguity. Ambiguous things can seem very threatening. “In both cases, a challenge to […]
Introduction “Although she was deeply committed to her Catholic heritage, her vision of cosmic reality is a synthesis of Western and Eastern religions.” (3) Beatrice Bruteau is neofeminine. The ecstatic nature of God is rising up in and through the evolution of consciousness. (4) “[Bruteau] represents a new type of scholar, one free of the […]