{"id":3243,"date":"2018-12-10T09:40:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T14:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=3243"},"modified":"2018-12-10T10:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T15:07:03","slug":"the-search-for-universal-spirituality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2018\/12\/10\/the-search-for-universal-spirituality\/","title":{"rendered":"The Search for Universal Spirituality. A Talk by Frederick Glaysher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Theosophical Society of Detroit &#8211; Friday, December 7, 2018. 7:00 &#8211; 9:00 pm. Q&amp;A. 27745 Woodward Avenue, Berkley, MI 48072. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FG-at-TS-12-7-2018-600wide-96.jpg\" alt=\"FG\" class=\"wp-image-3251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FG-at-TS-12-7-2018-600wide-96.jpg 600w, https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/FG-at-TS-12-7-2018-600wide-96-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Frederick Glaysher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxrOl3zb8i8\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Frederick Glaysher spoke about the long journey of modernity during the last 130 to 150 years in search of a universal conception of spirituality. Glaysher discusses the book <em>The World\u2019s Parliament of Religions<\/em>, 1893, and key influential speakers and groups represented at The Parliament in Chicago, including Vivekananda, Brahmo Samaj, the Unitarian Church, and the Theosophical Society, highlighting and surveying Madame Blavatsky\u2019s emphasis on Universal Brotherhood and the study of comparative religion. Further currents include Dara Shikoh, Rammohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Abdul-Baha, Rumi, Kabir, poets and mystics, Emerson. Among other seeking souls touched on, Evelyn Underhill, Arnold Toynbee, Micea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, and Huston Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\">Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frederick Glaysher discusses the book The World\u2019s Parliament of Religions, 1893, and key influential speakers and groups represented at The Parliament in Chicago, including Vivekananda, Brahmo Samaj, the Unitarian Church, and the Theosophical Society. <a href=\"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2018\/12\/10\/the-search-for-universal-spirituality\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,245,3],"tags":[910,909,220,29,186,219,110,908,551,906,680,911,491],"class_list":["post-3243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epic","category-united-nations","category-beyondpostmod","tag-bahai-movement","tag-brahmo-samaj","tag-buddhism","tag-epic-poetry","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-hinduism","tag-rabindranath-tagore","tag-shamanism","tag-tagore","tag-theosophical-society-of-detroit","tag-unitarian-universalist","tag-universal-spirituality","tag-universalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3258,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3243\/revisions\/3258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}