Balls
It’s been a shit day in suck city
Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures. Let the noon find thee by other lakes, and the night overtake thee every where at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played. Grow wild according to thy nature…
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| — | Thoreau |
What is transcendentalism?
Transcendentalism is the belief in the basic goodness of mankind—a greater belief in the spark of divinity and it’s interaction with nature than with the fall from grace and the original sin we all carry.
The transcendentalist movement began in Victorian America as a literary phenomena, with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau at the helm. Emerson, a public speaker, essayist, and preacher, wrote his famous collection of Essays, and Thoreau became most famous for his work Walden Pond and Civil Disobedience. Although each writer was slightly different, their message was the same: the potential of humanity is limitless.
With this, came the idea of the oversoul.
What is the oversoul?
The oversoul is the belief that a holy trinity is composed of man, God, and nature. When these three things come together, the divine spark within each human being expands and creates great thought within the soul.
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A lot of people are confused as to the nature of transcendentalism and what it means—not only as a philosophy but as a literary movement. I hope I cleared some things up.
