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Men Who've Walked With God: Plotinus, 1953 May 10
In this fifth lecture on "The Men Who've Walked with God," Thurman speaks on the Greek philosopher Plotinus. For Thurman, Plotinus's insight is the "double search" of mystical experience – the idea that as we seek out God, God also searches for us. Through this journey, one comes to share in the divine mind, or as Thurman says, "thinking God's thoughts after Him." However, Thurman is describing a thinking process, but rather an experience of ecstasy that expands beyond our sense of personality. This is the result of God spilling over into the mind and finally communing with the soul God has sought out.
Part of the Collection, Men Who've Walked with God (1953)
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Description by Rodell Jefferson III.
Recorded in Fellowship Church, San Francisco, California
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Men Who've Walked With God: Plotinus, 1953 May 10,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/948.
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By Howard Thurman (Uploaded by Duncan Hamra)In this fifth lecture on "The Men Who've Walked with God," Thurman speaks on the Greek philosopher Plotinus. For Thurman, Plotinus's insight is the "double search" of mystical experience – the idea that as we seek out God, God also searches for us. Through this journey, one comes to share in the divine mind, or as Thurman says, "thinking God's thoughts after Him." However, Thurman is describing a thinking process, but rather an experience of ecstasy that expands beyond our sense of personality. This is the result of God spilling over into the mind and finally communing with the soul God has sought out.
Part of the Collection, Men Who've Walked with God (1953)
Tags:
Description by Rodell Jefferson III.
Recorded in Fellowship Church, San Francisco, California
Citation: Thurman, Howard, “Men Who've Walked With God: Plotinus, 1953 May 10,” The Howard Thurman Digital Archive, accessed July 9, 2024, https://thurman.pitts.emory.edu/items/show/948.