What is Transcendentalism?
How can we demonstrate Transcendentalism today?
- A simple idea that is knowledgeable and goes beyond our five senses.
- definition
- Sparked creativity and individuality
- Let people discover themselves through expression and nature.
- Breathing exercises
- Going outside
- Listening to music
- Meditation
- Questioning authority
- Not falling into trends
- Taking time away from technology
How is it used?
Transcendental Meditation
- It was used to question everything.
- Promote alternative thinking
- Express gratitude to nature
a technique for detaching oneself from anxiety and promoting harmony and self-realization by meditation, repetition of a mantra, and other yogic practices, promulgated by an international organization founded by the Indian guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ( c. 1911–2008).
Origin of Transcendentalism
Transcendentalism: Then vs. Today
- 1836
- America-based, literary, political, and philosophical movement.
- Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson were the more famous Transcendentals
- The Transcendental Club
Elements of Transcendentalism
What was the Transcendental Club?
1. Nonconformity
2. Importance of Nature
3.Spirituality
4. Simplistic Living
5. Self-reliance
- A group of writers who wanted to leave Puritan ideas and ways of life behind.
- Created as a protest
- Originally called Hedge's Club
- Newspapers refused to publish their work.