c/alan-watts
The largest collection of talks by Alan Watts — the British-American philosopher who made Eastern wisdom accessible through witty and profound teachings.
…because they were teaching it in a very superficial way. I didn't know about st Thomas Aquinas or about meister Eckhart or about John Scotus Origina and all the great fathers of the church. They never told us about that. They just gave us a lot of talk…
…because they were teaching it in a very superficial way. I didn't know about st Thomas Aquinas or about meister Eckhart or about John Scotus Origina and all the great fathers of the church they never told us about that. They just gave us a lot of talk…
…in the 5th or 6th centuries who wrote under the name of Dionysius the arapagite, and he was translated into Latin by John Scotus Origina, who was a scholar at the Court of Charlemagne. He was deeply studied by st Thomas Aquinas in fact if the writings…
…during those times when the church had political power were almost invariably persecuted. Gordiano Bruno was burnt at the stake, John Scotus Origina was excommunicated, meister Eckhart's Theses were condemned, and so on and so on. A few mystics got away with…
…st Paul's Athenian convert. He was a Syrian Monk living in the 6th century. Both meister Eckhart, St Thomas Aquinas, John Scotus Origina and many other Great Medieval Theologians studied Dionysus the Areopagite. He wrote a book called the theology of mystica…