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Re:Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ev... by jonaustin on Saturday August 21, 2021 @02:53PM (#28259501)
This idea is called the Perennial Philosophy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy

Aldous Huxley wrote a book about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perennial_Philosophy

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Re:Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ev... by codemonkey-zeta on Sunday August 22, 2021 @03:23PM (#28268619)
Brilliant! Thank you for pointing this out, I was unaware of this notion. From the first link,

> "In the early 19th century the Transcendentalists propagated the idea of a metaphysical Truth and universalism"

So it seems it was not a coincidence Emerson stuck out to me when I first read him (Emerson was a foundational Transcendentalist).

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