Jindřich Veselý Dane Rudhyar's Concept of Transpersonal Life Jindřich Veselý, "Dane Rudhyar's Concept of Transpersonal Life", Central European Journal of Contemporary Religion 1 (1, 2017): p. 17-41. Dane Rudhyar was a composer, theosophist, philosopher, artist and a significant astrologer.
His conception of transpersonality is crucial in almost all of his
works and ideas. The article presents this conception in the context of
Rudhyar’s transpersonal psychology, philosophy of history, cosmology,
metaphysics and also his
interpretation of the basic themes and ideas of H. P. Blavatsky’s theosophy. Rudhyar’s
conception of transpersonality is based on an idea that through
transpersonal inidividuality there is influence from higher forces or
beings in the time and space of our world. The transpersonal life of a
person like this has its cosmological and metaphysical aspects; it
might be said that transpersonality means completion of inidividual
existence, evolution of mankind and cosmos. This way of life also has a
profound meaning for spirituality, ethics, esoteric initiation and
sexuality. The article deals with Rudhyar’s distinction between active
and conscious transpersonality, and passive mediumity, too. We also
consider connections between Rudhyar’s ideas and similar or parallel
movements, especially with theosophy, perrenialism, transpersonal
movement and New Age. Finally we briefly discuss strong and weak points
of Rudhyar’s conception, but also limitations of a strictly theoretical
approach. DOI: 10.14712/25704893.2017.2 Download PDF
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