Teaching The Perennial Philosophy in High School
This upcoming spring semester, I’ll be teaching a course here at The Beekman School called the Perennial Philosophy
This upcoming spring semester, I’ll be teaching a course here at The Beekman School called the Perennial Philosophy
In my Astronomy class at The Beekman School, I often refer to a scene in Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Cosmos series, where he states that humans are the universe looking back at itself. I explain that this is traditionally referred to as an anthropic statement. It’s also not far from the old kabbalistic adage that the universe exists because God wished to behold God, not the declaration that all is the lila of Shiva - the play of consciousness.
The Tetractys
There was a man here, Pythagoras, ...living in voluntary exile. Though the gods were far away, he visited their region of the sky, in his mind, and what nature denied to human vision he enjoyed with his inner eye.
-Ovid, Metamorphoses, Bk XV