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===Philosophy===
*[http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Perennial_Philosophy.html?id=YdaFEb_LE9YC '''''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.
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.
For the [[reader]], Huxley's anthology may validate and verify that [[moment]] in which [[self-knowledge]] moves one beyond the felt [[limitations]] of "a foul stinking lump of himself," as the classical British text of spiritual instruction, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cloud_of_Unknowing The Cloud of Unknowing], described it. Are such texts of spiritual instruction and the experiences of [[traditional]] mystics still of value today? Perennial Philosophy responds with an emphatic Yes!
*[http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=4846&edition_id=7641 '''''History of the Concept of Mind: Volume 2: The Heterodox and Occult Tradition'''''][[File:History_of_Concept_of_Mind.jpg|right|frame]]
*[http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=4846&edition_id=7641 '''''History of the Concept of Mind: Volume 2: The Heterodox and Occult Tradition'''''][[File:History_of_Concept_of_Mind.jpg|right|frame]]