By Aldous Huxley
An encouraged accumulating of spiritual writings that finds the "divine reality" universal to all faiths, accrued by means of Aldous Huxley"The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be came across one of the conventional lore of peoples in each quarter of the realm, and in its totally built kinds it has a spot in each one of the better religions."With nice wit and beautiful intellect—drawing on a various array of faiths, together with Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, Christian mysticism, and Islam—Huxley examines the non secular ideals of assorted non secular traditions and explains how they're united through a typical human craving to adventure the divine. The Perennial Philosophy comprises decisions from Meister Eckhart, Rumi, and Lao Tzu, in addition to the Bhagavad Gita, Tibetan ebook of the useless, Diamond Sutra, and Upanishads, between many others.
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Anti-poll tax leagues emerged across Scotland, especially in Glasgow, with non-payment their preferred method. Thanks to public meetings, mass door-knocking campaigns and pledgesigning (all examples of Idea Counterpower), the support for the Economic Counterpower of non-payment became widespread. As the date for the extension of the poll tax to England and Wales approached, so the anti-poll tax organizations spread there too, using the same methods. 28 As local council after local council set their poll tax rates, mass protests took place on town hall steps right across the country.
A breakaway movement from the Indian National Congress emerged. Former Congress leader Subhash Chandra Bose formed his own political party, and then an army that cooperated with the Japanese to challenge British power militarily. He formed a government-in-exile in Japanesecontrolled territory, fought the British directly in Burma, and even briefly captured and ruled two sets of Indian islands, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, which were renamed Shahid (‘Martyr’) and Swaraj (‘Home Rule’). Like Gandhi’s Quit India movement, Bose’s Indian National Army was ultimately defeated by the overwhelming physical military power of the British.
Such explicit uses of force are usually only utilized when coercion through ideology or economics has failed. ’ This may be a version of a longer quotation by the US trade unionist Nicholas Klein, who in 1914 declared: ‘First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. ’ Both are instructive. This chapter will interrogate this rhetoric by looking at three movements of the 20th century. It would seem that Klein and Gandhi were right about campaigners being ignored, laughed at and fought.