Huston Smith: Psychology of Religious Experience
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One of the most widely read writers in the field of philosophy and religion, Huston Smith's classic book The Religions of Man has sold over two million copies.
In this stimulating program Dr. Smith discusses the relation between psychedelic experience and religious practice, the god within and the cultivation of psychic experiences within religious and shamanic traditions.
Category: Education
Category: Education
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
The most powerful moral influence is example.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Cummings Smith was a leading scholar of religious studies in the United States.
He was widely regarded as one of the world's most influential figures in religious studies. Wikipedia
THE WISDOM OF FAITH WITH HUSTON SMITH
All religions, at their core, are the same; this remarkable claim is made by Huston Smith, bestselling author and professor of comparative religion at Syracuse University, MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.
Raised a Methodist, Smith also practices yoga, prays five times daily as Muslims do, and joyfully joins his daughter and her Jewish husband in observing the Sabbath.
He has traveled around the world 10 times, visiting ashrams and temples, synagogues and mosques, zen masters and swamies.
His book The World’s Religions has sold more than 2.5 million copies worldwide since 1959, and is considered one of the defining treatises on the subject.
In this series of conversations with renowned journalist Bill Moyers, Smith provides thoughtful insights into the world’s largest religions with these compelling episodes: Hinduism and Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Judaism, Islam, and A Personal Philosophy — and how, taken at their best, they provide universal truths that unite and define the human spirit. (1996)
