The men who wrote up the United States Constitution might have been burghers concerned about their own property rights but they invented a system of governance based on high Enlightenment ideals that cut against the grain of every established regime in the Old World.
They are partly protected from the malignancy of business-speak by the country's tradition of speaking out in defence of its founding values, forged during the high-minded Enlightenment era.
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.
But for other people, who have, let's say, attained a higher level of enlightenment, the categories of good and evil pass away".
The Taoist and Tantric Buddhist masters have used sexuality for centuries as a pathway to higher consciousness and enlightenment.
I pore over the high concept seeking enlightenment: Child Passion meets Parental Dedication and fame and fortune follow.
"I've had enough mediocre performances to realise that they are not helpful … When people hear a great performance, they can be transformed to a high level of enlightenment.
The ten realms are all the states in which a sentient being might find him or herself in the Buddhist universe, from the lowest ignorance and suffering to the highest bliss and enlightenment.
That academia is supposed to be a place of enlightenment and higher learning, the intellectual elite of Britain, is not reflected in collective lack of information about mental health.
Earlier this week I was at a meeting on how cultural organisations can create a grand alliance of creative advantage and enlightenment with higher education – the possibilities are there and are being realised from the ground up.
