141. Milestones Of The Millennium: The Enlightenment The enlightenment with Nicholas Till. We revisit the Age of enlightenment on thisedition of Milestones of the Millennium, as scholar and author Nicholas http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/milestones/990602.motm.enlightenment.html

Select a Program Tapes and Transcripts All Songs Considered All Things Considered® American Radio Works At the Opera Beyond 2000 Billy Taylor's Jazz The Changing Face of America The Diane Rehm Show Jazz from Lincoln Center Jazz Profiles JazzSet with Branford Marsalis Latino USA Living on Earth Lost and Found Sound Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz The Merrow Report Morning Edition® National Press Club NPR Playhouse The NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Polls NPR World of Opera Only a Game Public Interest Radio Expeditions Rewind Says You! St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Selected Shorts Sunday Baroque Talk of the Nation Todd Mundt Show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me Weekend All Things Considered Weekend Edition - Saturday Weekend Edition - Sunday Weekly Edition - The Best of NPR News World Radio Network from NPR NPR Worldwide The Enlightenment with Nicholas Till We revisit the Age of Enlightenment on this edition of Milestones of the Millennium , as scholar and author Nicholas Till joins Lisa Simeone to discuss how the radical ideas of the 18th century changed the course of music. The Enlightenment brought the now widely accepted principles of reason and equality into the public consciousness throughout much of Europe. These concepts were also the philosophical basis for the establishment of the United States; our Declaration of Independence begins with the bold assertion that “all men are created equal” and “endowed with certain unalienable rights.” In France, intellectuals like Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau preached against antiquated notions of aristocracy, class division, and religious and racial prejudice. Voltaire thought that people of other cultures and religions should not only be tolerated but embraced as part of a greater brotherhood of man. Such ideas were quickly absorbed into the music of the day. The "Air des Sauvages" from French composer Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera "Les Indes Galantes" (“Love in the Indies”) offers an example. We hear Philippe Herreweghe conduct the Orchestre de la Chapelle Royale. Christoph Willibald Gluck, another enlightened composer, sought to rid musical expression of “useless, excessive ornamentation” and draw from the ideals of “simplicity, truth and naturalness” in his music. We hear movements from the overture of Gluck’s opera “Orfeo and Euridice.”

142. Maharishi Purusha Program 24Hour Bliss Program offering enlightenment and fulfillment for the individual, for the nation, and for the world http://www.purusha.org

Maharishi Purusha Program Maharishi Mahesh Yogi The founder of the Purusha program. The Purusha Program Every aspect of the Purusha program has been carefully designed by Maharishi for those who wish to dedicate themselves fully to the most rapid pace of evolution possible. Join the Purusha Program You can also enjoy the 24-hour Bliss program. Join Purusha program. Donate to the Purusha Program We invite you to support the Purusha program in order to help achieve the goal of Heaven on Earth for all mankind. How to send your donations The Spiritual Center of America Have a glimpse of the home of the Maharishi Purusha Program in North Carolina. Short Courses for Men Description of the Courses These courses provide a rare opportunity to experience for yourself the unfoldment of the field of all possibilities in an atmosphere of Himalayan spirituality and American luxury. Choose the dates and register for a course for men.

143. Electronic Enlightenment Information ELECTRONIC enlightenment. ox logo. March 2004. The EE Project Copyright ©2004 Electronic enlightenment. All rights reserved. http://www.e-enlightenment.info/

ELECTRONIC ENLIGHTENMENT The EE Project EE is a digital correspondence project supported by a generous grant from the Mellon Foundation. It currently includes approximately 3,800 authors and over 45,000 letters in 16 correspondence collections of the eighteenth century. It has been designed and created by the staff of the VF-etc, the Electronic Text Centre of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford Partnerships have already been developed with the University Presses of Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Oxford and others will be included to provide additional collections and materials in the future. EE Features Full-text databases (with TEI-conformant XML-tagging) Searching available on all fields Calendar of manuscripts Bibliography Quoted text list (preliminary links to references) list of correspondents Illustrations list (many images available online) Republican/Gregorian calendar (cross-searchable) DEFINITIVE SCHOLARLY EDITIONS ONLINE!

144. German Idealism [Internet Encyclopedia Of Philosophy] Article on this movement, reviewing its development from its roots in the early enlightenment to the mid19th century. http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/germidea.htm

German Idealism The Movement Characterized. German Idealism Leibniz and the Pietists. Kant's Transcedentalism. The conceptual framework of German Idealism was provided by Immanuel Kant who was the first to reconcile the conflicting empirical and rationalistic elements of the prevailing dogmatic philosophy. With one stroke he secured for mind priority over nature, and yet without endangering the validity of the principles of scientific investigation. By giving the primacy to practical reason, he placed religion and ethics on a sure footing and broke the ban of rationalism. In the first instance Kant's work was purely epistemological. He made it particularly his problem to rescue natural science from the (epistemological) skepticism of Hume, and then to rescue religion from nationalism. Kant demolished the rationalistic arguments of Anselm, Descartes, and others, for the existence of God. Science is valid, but it has to do only with phenomena. This phenomenal world, however, is produced a priori by the activity of consciousness, reacting on that external reality whose eternal nature cannot be known. The constancy of experience is accounted for by the very fact that the world as we know it is only the sum total of phenomena. This becomes the basis of the universal validity of certain principles of explanation. Space and time, and the categories of the understanding are subjective and thus ideal. Taken together they form a mold in which we shape the impressions coming from the unknowable, transcendent reality. Thus, the principles of science and the laws of nature are universally valid because they are in the subject, not in the object. Knowledge of ultimate reality comes through the practical reason, particularly through the

145. The Enlightenment Jonathan I. Israel, Radical enlightenment Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, English Society in the Eighteenth Century; The enlightenment http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/enlightenment.html

Notebooks The Enlightenment 12 Feb 2005 12:31 Voltaire Diderot Hume La Mettrie , Smith, Gibbon. Origins of the revolution , the Left . Relations to science superstition Romanticism , the industrial revolution. Connections and attitudes to classical antiquity , the Renaissance Recommended: Ernst Cassirer Philosophy of the Enlightenment [This is and fully deserves to be a classic work, but he has far to much on obscure people who either thought they were building on Leibniz, or whom Cassirer thought were making straight the way for Kant and Hegel, i.e., his approach to history is still too teleological.] Jean Le Rond D'Alembert, Preliminary Discourse to the Robert Darnton, Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation [Dividing through for the Freudian mish-mash, fortunately under pretty good control here] Ernest Gellner Thought and Change [The philosophes as the first modernizing intellectuals worked up about under-development.] Jonathan I. Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 16501750 [Or, how Spinoza overthrew the old regime.]

146. <<< Dharmata Foundation >>> --- Home Page --- The foundation promotes the Vajrayana tradition. Its Dharma Apprenticeship Program presents the whole of life as the path to enlightenment through cultivating love and wisdom. Contains a list of events and local centers, and a collection of teachings on the Paramitas, Lojong, Tonglen, Bodhicitta, and basic topics. (Requires Flash 5.0) http://buddhamandala.org

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147. Enlightment http://www.kahlen-berlin.de/enlightenment1.htm

148. Newpath Find Awareness A place to develop spirituality through meditation, and lessons of enlightenment and inspiration. http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/newpath1/

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149. Spiritual Enlightenment, Self Realization And Advaita Author responds to questions about enlightenment. http://www.bliss-music.com/enlightenment.htm

Notes on Spiritual Enlightenment How to attain self realization There is only one thing ever to point to for your own freedom. And it's not a thing, it is this moment. This is where your focus should rest. Not today, not this hour, not this minute nor this second, it is much more simple than that. It is right now, this very moment. To allow everything to be as it is just now. To be present with what is right now. And right now you exist. Right now, there is a feeling of being. In this moment without referring to your thoughts there is this undeniable sense that you are. Notice this. Not "you are a person" or "your are" anything at all. But simply being. It is indescribable, indefinable, but it is you. If thoughts come, let them come, let them go. If feelings are there let them be. Don't resist anything. Don't even resist the resistance. Because if you resist this moment, if you think it should be other than it is, then you are at war with this moment. And no matter how hard you try and manipulate your world in this moment to be the way you would like it to be, it will only be the way that it is. So you either are resting in this moment or you are fighting this moment. You are living as "I am" or your are living as "I want." To be here in this moment, or to be lost in your thoughts. You can't have both. Freedom or limitation. This present moment, or your endless commentary about who you think you are, where you have been and where you are going. Can you let everything be in this moment? Can you stop trying to change and control your world and instead, simply rest with me right now? Just for this second, can you let go and rest in what is here and now?

150. The Enlightenment An article about the history and heritage of the movement. Covers England, America and the struggle in Europe. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/enlightenment.html

The Enlightenment Although the intellectual movement called "The Enlightenment" is usually associated with the 18th century, its roots in fact go back much further. But before we explore those roots, we need to define the term. This is one of those rare historical movements which in fact named itself. Certain thinkers and writers, primarily in London and Paris, believed that they were more enlightened than their compatriots and set out to enlighten them. They believed that human reason could be used to combat ignorance, superstition, and tyranny and to build a better world. Their principal targets were religion (embodied in France in the Catholic Church) and the domination of society by a hereditary aristocracy. Background in Antiquity To understand why this movement became so influential in the 18th century, it is important to go back in time. We could choose almost any starting point, but let us begin with the recovery of Aristotelian logic by Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century. In his hands the logical procedures so carefully laid out by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle were used to defend the dogmas of Christianity; and for the next couple of centuries, other thinkers pursued these goals to shore up every aspect of faith with logic. These thinkers were sometimes called "schoolmen" (more formally, "scholastics,") and Voltaire frequently refers to them as "doctors," by which he means "doctors of theology."

151. The Enlightenment, Freemasonry, And The Illuminati A brief look at the history of The Illuminati, and how they related to Freemasonryand Atheism. http://www.atheists.org/Atheism/roots/enlightenment/

FLASH LINE HOME VISITORS WHAT'S NEW ... WELCOME The Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and The Illuminati by Conrad Goeringer Part I - The Enlightenment In the history of Atheism, no period is as complex and exciting as that time we know today as the Enlightenment. Cultural historians and philosophers consider this era to have spanned the eighteenth century, cresting during the French Revolution of 1789. It was a phenomenon which swept the western world, drowning in its wake many of the sclerotic and despotic institutions of l'ancien regime or old order, and helping to crystallize a new view of man and the roles of reason, nature, progress and religion. And too, the Enlightenment was a feverish period of Atheistic thought and propaganda. Many of the leading philosophers of the time were Atheists or deists, opposed to the cultural and political hegemony long exercised by the Vatican and its shock troops, the Jesuits. Much of the political, social and literary activity of the Enlightenment was characterized by a repudiation of Christianity, and the formulation of doctrines calling for separation, if not outright abolition, of state and church. While there are many currents to this period, one of the fascinating and little-explored backwater eddys of particular interest to Atheists and libertarians is the role of Masonic lodges and "secret societies" during this time. Surprisingly little objective historical work exists on this area. The drama of social revolution and intellectual apostacy was taking place not only in the streets of Paris, or the open fields of Lexington and Concord, but in countless lodges and sect gatherings and reading societies as well. These conclaves, with their metaphorical-hermetic secrets, symbolism and lore, were the crucibles of "impiety and anarchy" so bemoaned by church dogmatists of the time like the Jesuit Abbe Barruel. Of all of the clubs, societies, libraries, salons and lodges of this stormy time, perhaps none has been so villified, attacked and misunderstood as that group known as the Order of the Illuminati.

152. Center For Enlightenment INDEX a cutting edge, holistic approach to modern spiritual exploration based on theperspectives of A Course In Miracles, Conversations with God, and the Urantia http://www.centerfor.org/

CENTER FOR ENLIGHTENMENT A Forum for Holistic Spiritual Exploration Combining Modern Revelation and Timeless Practices including: A Course In Miracles Conversations with God The Urantia Book and Meditation/Stillness Site Index: The Center's MISSION The HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE Why it is so important The Center's FOCUS What we mean by ENLIGHTENMENT MODERN SPIRITUAL RESOURCES A Course In Miracles ... RESOURCE PERSPECTIVES What they say about Unity and Separation Making Contact with the Inner Voice Traditional Siritual Texts Love ... PERSONAL CONNECTIONS Contact Someone A Course In Miracles Conversations with God The Urantia Book Teaching Mission ... LINKS Knowledge is an eternal quest; always are you learning, but never are you able to arrive at the full knowledge of absolute truth. In knowledge alone there can never be absolute certainty, only increasing probability of approximation; but the religious soul of spiritual illumination knows, and knows now. The Urantia Book, p. 1120 The Center wishes to acknowledge the contribution of the many authors, editors, publishers, channels, transcribers, artists and others without whom this site would not be possible. Excerpts from The Urantia Book courtesy Urantia Foundation. Permission to quote from

153. Spiritual Enlightenment A.S.A.P. - Relationship And Union Deals with the recovery of spiritual enlightenment memories which the authors believe are genetically encoded in us all. With chapter excerpts, and details of associated workshops. http://www.angelfire.com/ut/remembrance/

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154. Web Links - Age Of Enlightenment bullet, The Age of enlightenment in the Paintings of France s Museums bullet,Transportation Inventions Events of the enlightenment Period (timeline) http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-AgeOfEnlightenment.

17c Enlightenment Thought The Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's Museums Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza (biography) ... - John Locke early 18c: A Short History of Methodism - John Wesley A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley ... - Marquis de Condocert late 18c: Catherine the Great - Various Documents on Enlightenment and Government late 18c: The Salon (excerpts from several observers of the period on the women) late 18c: Thomas Paine - Of the Religion of Deism Compared with the Christian Religion

155. Destiny Offering words of enlightenment, with dedications to departed loved ones, spiritual poetry, a chat room, and texts. http://www.soundsstudio.co.uk/destiny/index.html

156. Sensibility, Inspiration, And Enlightenment Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I couldsay how much William Shakespeare the softest lover ever best http://lt.tripod.com/tr/directory/_h_/members.tripod.com/daanie/

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157. What Is Enlightenment? Press Formerly Moksha Press, publishes the books of Andrew Cohen and the 'What is enlightenment' magazine together with videos and audio tapes. http://www.wiepress.org/store/default.asp

Welcome to What Is Enlightenment? Press, formerly Moksha Press, where you will find books, videos, and audiotapes of Andrew Cohen's teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment. You will also find the award-winning What Is Enlightenment? , a quarterly magazine founded by Andrew Cohen and dedicated to a revolution in human consciousness and culture. "Andrew Cohen has a radical message of evolutionary advancement. Like Krishnamurti, Cohen is relentless in his commonsense approach to sprirituality." - Amazon.com

158. Ishaya Teaches seekers the way to ascension and enlightenment. Highlights course introductions and descriptions, the art of ascension, and commitment instruction. http://www.theishayatradition.org

159. The Tree Of Enlightenment The Tree of enlightenment An Introduction to the Major Traditions of Buddhism byPeter Della Santina. Chico Dharma Study Group. 26 Kirk Way, Chico, CA. http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~dsantina/tree/

The Tree of Enlightenment An Introduction to the Major Traditions of Buddhism by Peter Della Santina Chico Dharma Study Group 26 Kirk Way, Chico, CA. 95928 U.S.A. Contents About the Author Author's Note Part One The Fundamentals of Buddhism Entire Part One (228 Kbytes) Chapter One Buddhism A Modern Perspective Chapter Two The Pre-Buddhist Background Chapter Three The Life of the Buddha Chapter Four The Four Noble Truths Chapter Five Morality Chapter Six Mental Development Chapter Seven Wisdom Chapter Eight Karma Chapter Nine Rebirth Chapter Ten Interdependent Origination Chapter Eleven The Three Universal Characteristics Chapter Twelve The Five Aggregates Chapter Thirteen The Fundamentals in Practice Part Two The Mahayana Entire Part Two (134 Kbytes) Chapter Fourteen The Origins of the Mahayana Tradition Chapter Fifteen The Lotus Sutra Chapter Sixteen The Heart Sutra Chapter Seventeen The Lankavatara Sutra Chapter Eighteen The Philosophy of the Middle Way Chapter Nineteen The Philosophy of Mind only Chapter Twenty The Development of Mahayana Philosophy Chapter Twenty-One Mahayana Buddhism in Practice Part Three The Vajrayana Entire Part Three (131 Kbytes) Chapter Twenty-Two The Origins of the Vajrayana Tradition Chapter Twenty-Three Philosophical and Religious Foundations Chapter Twenty-Four Methodology Chapter Twenty-Five Myth and Symbolism Chapter Twenty-Six Psychology, Physiology and Cosmology

160. Christian Zen Bible based Zen without Buddhist imagery and practices. enlightenment is the Kingdom of God. Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Jesus is Lord. http://www.christianzen.com

Zen is realization and full acceptance of reality. Zen is essentially a clear and aware mind. I truly believe that a clear and aware mind is a repentant and baptized heart. Jesus is the way, truth and the life. Jesus is reality. Jesus died to bring you truth. John 16:7 The truth will set you free. John 8:32 Jesus preached the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Mark 1:14 The Kingdom of God is within you. Luke 17:21 The Kingdom of God is in a repentant and baptized heart. Mark 16:16 A repentant and baptized heart is a pure heart. Acts 2:38 A pure heart is a pure mind. Eph 4:22,23 A pure mind is a clear mind. Gal 5:16 A clear mind sees only "what is". John 14:17 God said,"I AM" God "is" what is. Exodus 3:14 God is reality and reality is God. John 1:3 A clear mind sees reality. John 3:3 The Kingdom of God is here! Matt 4:17 Your very mind is the Kingdom of God. 2 Tim 2:22 Our Doctrine : Fully explains why a clear, aware, acceptant, calm mind is a repentant and baptized heart. A clear mind is not a blank mind, it is a mind of peace and submission to Gods will.

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