The Metaphysical Society - Autobiographical Reflections

Autobiographical Reflections

Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc
Author: Eric Voegelin
Narrator: Bernard Mayes
Length: 5 hours 30 minutes (Unabridged)
Physical Price: $29.95
Download Price: $13.49
Format: Encoded Windows Media
© 2006 Blackstone Audio Inc

This is an ideal introduction to the ideas of a man whom many regard as the greatest thinker of our time.

Here we encounter the stages in the development of his unique philosophy of consciousness, his key intellectual breakthroughs, his theory of history, and his diagnosis of the political ills of the modern age.

The book provides a veritable catalog of the thinkers who created the intellectual foundation of the twentieth century. Voegelin's association with and recollection of these men provide fresh insight into their thought as well. Voegelin discusses their contributions to his own development and to the consciousness of the age.

In the course of these reminiscences there emerges a portrait of a man of wit, courage, affability, and principle.

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
-- Albert Einstein

"Seek and 'ye shall find, knock and the door will be opened, ask and it shall be given unto thee."
--A Biblical Passage

"The true understanding of both the Creator and the creation is considered to be the transcendental or metaphysical knowledge."
-- Bhagavad Gita

"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
-- Isaac Newton