A Perennial Digression

A Perennial Digression

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A Perennial Digression
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How Perennialist is A Perennial Digression?

How Perennialist is A Perennial Digression?

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Sep 19, 2022
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Q: How perennialist is A Perennial Digression?

A: As with anything, it’s best to define our terms. In the broadest sense, “Perennialism”—the idea that underlying all religions and philosophies there is a common core of experience, knowledge, and wisdom about the unity of God, world, and self that is simply received and transmitted in culturally diverse f…

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