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American philosopher and scholar of religion (1934–2022), professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University for four decades. He worked in the Gurdjieff tradition and wrote Lost Christianity, Money and the Meaning of Life and The American Soul, always on the same question: what a human being is actually for.
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Silence, prayer and direct experience within the mystical traditions of Christianity.
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