The Enlightenment revolutionized how people sought ... argues that explanations hold a fundamental value in the universe, or in his words, the “multiverse.” The book is about everything ...

We mean, Yumi Sakugawa is often drawing enlightenment of one form or another, and now Adams Media has released her new Illustrated Guide to Becoming One With the Universe, and the artist will be ...

I will argue that the state of enlightenment, the state of mind extolled ... Quantum theory tells us that everything in the universe is instantaneously connected. If everything is instantly ...

While Alice doesn’t exactly equate depersonalization with enlightenment, she sees it as a sort of halfway, formless state. “I believe I am on the path to enlightenment,” she says.

The Enlightenment is the age that valued the ... Both assumed a classical, deterministic, matter-in-motion view of the universe, and believed that, at bottom, people were just complicated ...

In fact, the Enlightenment declared war on the excesses ... Human reason, that leads us to comprehend our place in the universe, leads us also toward a new moral imperative, perfectly secular ...

the brightest minds of the Enlightenment were stumped over how far the Earth is from the sun. The transits of the 1760s helped answer that question, providing a virtual yardstick for the universe.

The Enlightenment’s legacy ... man’s unique place in the universe seemed poised to disappear, along with the threadbare remnants of his immortal soul. Yet even those who embraced the advance ...

It was only later that I saw my youthful inquiry as part of a historically specific tendency, characterized as "Enlightenment universalism" and displaying these beliefs: that rationality is identified ...