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 ''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. |