From ex-players they seek the kind of enlightenment that is beyond their own musings on the bus or train.
Hubbard was particularly fierce against defecting members, especially if they put online the higher levels of enlightenment that were supposed to be revealed only to loyal trainees.
Whereas historians in recent years have emphasized how often religion and Enlightenment got along, Israel relegates such cushy coexistence to a "Moderate Enlightenment" that was decidedly second-tier.
"Tim travels a classic path of enlightenment that runs parallel with our own understanding of him," Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in February.
Mr. MacGregor said that the spirit of the Enlightenment that inspired the world's first national museum was no less relevant today.
At the meeting in Krasnodar, Putin called for "fully using the best experience of education and enlightenment that existed in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union".
He was educated in the new Greek enlightenment that had been adopted by the more liberal families after the Roman conquest of the Hellenistic kingdoms, and this gave form and clarity to his natural talent for public speaking.
Now a devout Buddhist, she is planning a trip to Tibet next year for the culmination of an intense, seven-year course of spiritual enlightenment that involves mediating three hours a day.
As he moves away from his surrogate mother (if panic-dialing her often) and contends with a patriarchal problem (the plot thickens, slightly), Tim travels a classic path of enlightenment that runs parallel with our own understanding of him.
There is no action taken by an individual, and thus collectively by civilization, that is leading us away from enlightenment that cannot be attributed to these two destructive motivations, ego and greed.
Thus, the idea, born of the Enlightenment, that aesthetic matters could be universally subjected to reason led to a rigid imposition of a narrow set of aesthetic rules on all art that came within the Académie's jurisdiction.
