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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.

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