“One of the major contemporary obstacles to knowledge is the Cartesian mind set that assumes that people are intrinsically capable of knowledge. Most of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment philosophes assumed they were already quite capable of discovering the truth; they just had to find the correct mathematical or psychological stratagem required. They had passed over an entire step toward knowledge taught in the Perennial Tradition: that the seeker must first develop the capabilities necessary for discerning truth.”
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Perennial Tradition: Overview of the Secret Heritage, the Single Stream of Initiatory Teaching Flowing Through All the Great Schools of Mys
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