PART I: Opening to the Other
This essay features Part I in the series titled Journey of a Transcendental Anthropology. For the prologue to these series, please see here: Prologue to Series Introduction
The principle of the Nâm Academy is: Life wants to live optimally. The purpose of the Nâm Academy is to facilitate a platform for the development of perspectives on optimal Human Living. These series of essays are an attempt to pursue an anthropological perspective on human living in an affirmation of its inherently transcendental nature.
The essays are open to peer review in the spirit of inviting further exchanges of views. We welcome feedback, useful references and constructive criticism from readers in terms of any relevant expertise. Please address these to the author at: leon-alexander@nam-academy.org.
This essay features Part I in the series titled Journey of a Transcendental Anthropology. For the prologue to these series, please see here: Prologue to Series Introduction
Series Prologue I am pleased starting these series. By referring to a transcendental anthropology, pursuing a discipline within academic anthropology is not necessarily my aim,
Under this section we make available articles on contemporary subjects studied from the perspective of Nâm thinking, and articles about Nâm thinking and its terminology.
The current authors are Hubertus Bahorie and Leon Alexander. We also intent to republish work by other authors (with their permission) when it can be of interest from the perspective of Nâm.
“The Red Thread is not a kind of ancient Truth, nor is it a kind of secret Wisdom, that is hidden deep within. It rather
Yoginâm presents a contemporary expression of a voice which has existed throughout human evolution in different cultural expressions. He calls it the Red Thread. This
Originally published in Dutch in the newspaper Delftse Post, translation by the Nâm Academy Mindfulness is increasingly accepted as a response to a fast-growing need