American Gurus

Reasoned Flights beyond Reason

“…Literary historian Arthur Versluis argues, for instance, that "Merrell-Wolff, if not a guru, can be described at the very least as a proto-guru." 146 He furthermore thinks that Merrell-Wolff's teachings belong to an Anglo-American tradition of what he calls "immediatism," which he traces back to the evangelicalism of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758), the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), and the Radical Empiricism of William James, but he also includes the recent non-dualism of foreign gurus in North America such as Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) and German spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle (Ulrich Leonard To ¨lle, b. 1948).…”

“…"Immediatism refers to a religious assertion of spontaneous, direct, unmediated spiritual insight into reality (typically with little or no prior training), which some term 'enlightenment,'" Versluis explains. 147 He states that it is also present in "Neo-Advaita" or "the satsang network." 148 Author Philip Goldberg makes the same connection between Merrell-Wolff and Advaita, writing that "Merrell-Wolff .…”

Verification and Validation Plan for PROTEUS

“…This verification and validation (V&V) plan is presented for a specific use case called a "computational model" [5,6]. In this plan, we focus on the target use case [7] of evaluation of passive safety features resulting from multiphysics, multiscale reactor dynamics during unprotected loss of flow (ULOF) transients in sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) cores.…”