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Eckhart was probably born around 1260 in the village of Tambach, near Gotha, in the Landgraviate of Thuringia, [10] perhaps between 1250 and 1260. [11] It was previously asserted that he was born to a noble family of landowners, but this originated in a misinterpretation of the archives of the period. [12]
Harmonielehre is a 40-minute orchestral composition by the American composer John Adams, composed in 1985.In his memoir, Adams wrote that the piece "was a statement of belief in the power of tonality at a time when I was uncertain about its future" [1] and that it was "a one-of-kind [] once-only essay in the wedding of fin-de-siècle chromatic harmony with the rhythmic and formal procedures of ...
Eckhart addresses the self as such, that is, the person insofar as they are nothing other than the self, free from any commonality with others, including God, that determines the self as self. The subject of Eckhart's theory is the self-development of a transcendental self, which is free from any presupposition and self-founded.
The church and the friary were the place of work of the most important German mystic, Meister Eckhart, who was probably admitted to the friary as a novice in 1274 at the age of about 14, was later prior of the Erfurt friary and in 1303–1311 provincial with the Erfurt office of the order's province Saxonia.
The Sister Catherine Treatise is often cited, along with Marguerite Porete's The Mirror of Simple Souls, as one of the representative literary expressions of the Heresy of the Free Spirit, which held that a divine union with God was possible to people in this life and, more controversially, independently of the ministrations of the Church.
Eckhart Tolle (born 1948) is a German-born writer and public speaker living in Canada. Eckhart von Hochheim, aka Meister Eckhart, a German theologian and philosopher; Mason Eckhart, a comic book character; Eckhart, a Canadian animated children's TV show; Eckhart Branch Railroad, early short line railroad
Johannes Tauler OP (c. 1300 – 16 June 1361) was a German mystic, a Catholic priest and a theologian.A disciple of Meister Eckhart, he belonged to the Dominican order. ...
Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film [4] directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall and written by Bruce Joel Rubin.It stars Tim Robbins as Jacob Singer, an American infantryman whose experiences during his military service in Vietnam result in strange, fragmentary visions and bizarre hallucinations that continue to haunt him.