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*[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/The-Perennial-Philosophy-Aldous-Huxley?isbn=9780060570583&HCHP=TB_The+Perennial+Philosophy '''''The Perennial Philosophy'''''][[File:Perennial_philosophy100.jpg|right|frame]]
*[http://www.harpercollins.com/books/The-Perennial-Philosophy-Aldous-Huxley?isbn=9780060570583&HCHP=TB_The+Perennial+Philosophy '''''The Perennial Philosophy'''''][[File:Perennial_philosophy100.jpg|right|frame]]
The term ''philosophia perennis'' is intended to [[describe]] a [[philosophy]] that has been formulated by those who have [[experienced]] direct [[communion]] with [[God]] or the [[Ultimate]]. However brief the [[experience]], it transforms the [[thinking]] mind of the experiencer, so that they are never the same again. Such [[revelatory]] experience, captured however dimly in [[symbols]] supplied by human [[language]] or by whatever artistic [[expression]], however often repeated through the ages by people of all races, genders, cultures and religious [[beliefs]], open onto the Perennial Philosophy.
The term ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy philosophia perennis]'' is intended to [[describe]] a [[philosophy]] that has been formulated by those who have [[experienced]] direct [[communion]] with [[God]] or the [[Ultimate]]. However brief the [[experience]], it transforms the [[thinking]] mind of the experiencer, so that they are never the same again. Such [[revelatory]] experience, captured however dimly in [[symbols]] supplied by human [[language]] or by whatever artistic [[expression]], however often repeated through the ages by people of all races, genders, cultures and religious [[beliefs]], open onto the Perennial Philosophy.
More than half a century ago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley Aldous Huxley] gave this title to an anthology that he edited. In the type of experience central to it, whether called archaic or primordial or [[mystical]], the veil of materiality is rent and mistaken certainties are dispelled.
More than half a century ago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley Aldous Huxley] gave this title to an anthology that he edited. In the type of experience central to it, whether called archaic or primordial or [[mystical]], the veil of materiality is rent and mistaken certainties are dispelled.
