Divine Revelations: Peering through a Rainbow

Abstract

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer and poet who formulated the philosophy of Transcendentalism and was a champion of individualism. Although I am not fond of those words that end with ism, it is only through transcendence that a true perspective of the world that surrounds us can be perceived. Whereas transcendentalism indicates a bias toward the esoteric in disregard for the realities of this world, transcendence is merely a balanced approach to rise above the images of our perceived world and instead visualize and understand the true reality of the real world that surrounds us. Accordingly, in the last chapter, vivid descriptions and transcendent images were painted for the realities of the world that surrounds us. While in this chapter, philosophical reasoning and structural understandings will be used to define and describe the world that is within us. However, any discussion of this world that is within us and within our corresponding human psyche must begin where we left off in the last chapter.