Seraphim Rose

During his junior year at college, Eugene acknowledged his homosexuality and began a secret sexual relationship with Finnish-born Jon Gregerson. Eugene came out to his closest friends after his mother discovered letters penned between her son and Gregerson. He wrote to Larry McGilvery on June 17, 1956, "My mother had discovered, rather illegitimately (I shall tell you of it later), that I am a homosexual; If you have not surmised the fact already, it is time you know of it."[citation needed] Eugene's mother disapproved in t ...

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Integral organizations: Integral Institute Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies Integral University The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private San Francisco, California-based graduate school whose programs focus on clinical psychology as well as the study of the world's various spiritual traditions. It has about 1,000 students, many of them studying part-time. CIIS is generally devoted to integrating the academic sphere with the spiritua ...

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The "Integral" of the school's name has nothing to do with mathematical integrals, but translates a technical term from the writings of Sri Aurobindo, namely "Integral Yoga" (purnayoga). By this Aurobindo intends to harmonize the paths of karma-, jnana-, and bhakti-yoga as described in the Bhagavad-Gita--roughly speaking, body, mind, and spirit. In the CIIS context the term also suggests various other possible divisions to be integrated as well (e.g. East and West, masculin ...

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Evolutionary creationism is a variant of creationism which accepts microevolution and macroevolution while retaining a theistic interpretation of evolution. Theistic evolution is accepted (or at least not rejected) by major Christian churches, including Roman Catholicism; some Judaism denominations; and other religious organizations that lack a literalist stance concerning holy scriptures. With this approach toward evolution, scriptural creation stories are typically interpreted as being allegorical in nature. Many individuals stress the unreliability of Genesis as a scientific text ...

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The major atheistic criticism of evolutionary creationism focuses on the belief in a supernatural creator, which violates the methodological naturalism and the falsifiability requirements of scientific philosophy. This criticism would be accurate in the case of a theistic evolution proponent trying to portray his view as a scientific theory instead of explaining it as a view that adds scientific knowledge with more personal beliefs. On the other hand, an atheist portraying his personal rejection of the idea of a Creator as part of the scient ...

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Although evolutionary biologists have often been agnostics (most notably Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin) or atheists (most notably Richard Dawkins), from the outset many have had a belief in some form of theism. These have included Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913), who in a joint paper with Charles Darwin in 1858, proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection. Wallace was effectively a deist who believed that "the unseen universe of Spirit" had inter ...

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After feeling acute pains for several days while working in his cell in 1982, Father Seraphim was taken by his fellow monks to a hospital for treatment. When he reluctantly arrived at Mercy Medical Center in Redding, 45 minutes from the town of Platina, he was declared in critical condition and fell into semi-consciousness. After exploratory surgery was completed, it was discovered that a blood clot had blocked a vein supplying blood to Father Seraphim's intestines, which had become a mass of non-functioning dead tissue. Father Seraphim slip ...

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While studying under Alan Watts at the American Academy of Asian Studies after graduating from Pomona College in 1956, Eugene discovered the writings of René Guénon. Through Guénon's writings, Eugene was inspired to seek out an authentic, grounded spiritual faith tradition. Gregerson, a practicing Russian Orthodox at the time, introduced his friend to Orthodoxy. As Gregerson was choosing to abandon his Orthodoxy, Eugene, instead, was inspired to learn more about the faith. This culminated in Eugene's decision to en ...

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