Dreams of Sublimity: Chance encounters with “the sublime” in modern times

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Join Archer Lim, a Developer Relations, Community, Facilitation, and Product Marketing professional with a background in organizing, education, and strategy development. He was reared professionally in high-growth startup environments and, in another life, would have been an academic. Instead, he's an amateur philosopher and is part of this community! REMEMBER the last time you felt…

Shangri-La: Buddhist Dreamscapes in the Western Imagination

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In the late 19th century, two priests journeyed into the mountains of Tibet discovering a monastic community previously unknown to the Western world. Their travelogues inspired Shangri-La, the Buddhist paradise in James Hilton's 1937 novel Lost Horizon, as well as Aldous Huxley's Island, and the work of Alan Watts. For the first time, Buddhist philosophies…