Tally Rhoades
I have a bachelor's degree in Communication Studies from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and continue my graduate studies at Holmes Institute. I grew up in an Ashram in Northern California, where I experienced a life of religious studies, meditation, and a cooperative community. After decades in Fortune 500 business development, I returned to higher education to develop a unique message about modern spirituality and the human experience.
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Socially and politically, architecture houses the human story. Individually, our perception and inhabitation of buildings shape the flow, form, function, and meaning of our stories. As an art form, the design of space has the potential to awaken participatory consciousness in a three-dimensional way. Architecture is a powerful vessel through which we understand ourselves, as it is the object of our contemplation and the location of our individual and collective experience. From the small scale of our homes to magnificent monuments, architecture creates life space, historical space, and creative visions of our past, present, and future.
Swami Vivekananda introduced Hinduism to mainstream Western culture. The comprehensive results of his influence are difficult to quantify. His story is profoundly contextualized in culture, politics, activism, academia, and the burgeoning of new thought as the East met the West. In 1893, against the weight of Western colonial prejudice, Vivekananda stood before the predominantly Christian audience at the first Parliament of World Religions. His opening address was an appeal for unification and civility.
Vivekananda laid the historical context for Hinduism as a friend to Western religions; he differentiated religion from political tyranny and advocated that the Parliament could change the course of history. The rhetoric he employed was masterful, inclusive, and appealing. His famous first line was “Sisters and Brothers of America” (Matheson 3). With those five words, the congregation rose in a standing ovation. The foundation of his success was an authentic spiritual practice and profound intellectual talent combined with the 19th-century landscape of religious freedoms in American Democracy and the historical timing of emergent global culture. Vivekananda’s history, scholarship, relationship with Sri Ramakrishna, vision of inclusivism, and journey to spiritual self-actualization is a compelling story that explains his success in introducing Hinduism to the West.
Socially and politically, architecture houses the human story. Individually, our perception and inhabitation of buildings shape the flow, form, function, and meaning of our stories. As an art form, the design of space has the potential to awaken participatory consciousness in a three-dimensional way. Architecture is a powerful vessel through which we understand ourselves, as it is the object of our contemplation and the location of our individual and collective experience. From the small scale of our homes to magnificent monuments, architecture creates life space, historical space, and creative visions of our past, present, and future.
Swami Vivekananda introduced Hinduism to mainstream Western culture. The comprehensive results of his influence are difficult to quantify. His story is profoundly contextualized in culture, politics, activism, academia, and the burgeoning of new thought as the East met the West. In 1893, against the weight of Western colonial prejudice, Vivekananda stood before the predominantly Christian audience at the first Parliament of World Religions. His opening address was an appeal for unification and civility.
Vivekananda laid the historical context for Hinduism as a friend to Western religions; he differentiated religion from political tyranny and advocated that the Parliament could change the course of history. The rhetoric he employed was masterful, inclusive, and appealing. His famous first line was “Sisters and Brothers of America” (Matheson 3). With those five words, the congregation rose in a standing ovation. The foundation of his success was an authentic spiritual practice and profound intellectual talent combined with the 19th-century landscape of religious freedoms in American Democracy and the historical timing of emergent global culture. Vivekananda’s history, scholarship, relationship with Sri Ramakrishna, vision of inclusivism, and journey to spiritual self-actualization is a compelling story that explains his success in introducing Hinduism to the West.