A.K. Coomaraswamy

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• RTReverence for Tradition

  9 / 10
• MRMystical Receptivity

  8 / 10
• TDTheoretical Drive

  7 / 10
• TVTragic Vision

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• René GuénonTHRESHOLD

  The crisis of the modern world calls for a recovery of primordial tradition.

• BonaventureTHRESHOLD

  The Itinerarium charts the soul's journey through nature into God's depths.

• Bernard of ClairvauxTHRESHOLD

  Love of God in four ascending degrees; mysticism of the will.

• Frithjof SchuonTHRESHOLD

  Transcendent unity of religions — the perennial philosophy.

• Karen ArmstrongTHRESHOLD

  The Case for God — religion as practice that re-trains attention.

• Hadewijch of AntwerpTHRESHOLD

  A Beguine mystic for whom the storm of love (minne) is God's own life.

Short exercises in the same tradition as A.K. Coomaraswamy's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.