Common Core
From The SpiritWiki
The Common Core (a.k.a. Common Core Thesis, a.k.a.) holds that "mystical experience is a universal phenomenon that is essentially the same for mystics from different traditions, even when it is interpreted differently."[1]
Related Terms
European Grand Narrative > Common Core, Perennial Philosophy, Philosophia Perennis, Pia Philosophia, Platonic Orientalism, Prisca Theologia
Perennial Philosophy > Common Core, Philosophia Perennis
Notes
This position, also known as “perennialism,” is associated with, among others, William James, Aldous Huxley, and Walter Stace.
Footnotes
- ↑ Jacobs, Bas J. H. “Getting off the Wheel: A Conceptual History of the New Age Concept of Enlightenment.” Numen 67 (2020): 373–401. p. 376.
