THE POST-2000 TRANSCENDENTALISTS, PART 1

I feel it's time to write the new non-rules of TRANSCENDENTALISM, post-2000.  I write non-rules because Transcendentalists may share certain unified thoughts and aesthetics, but as individualist-minded philosophers, Spiritual and artistic thinkers or seekers, they will not blindly follow set rules or what has been established, before the discovery of their own perceptions...as a rule. The only true Transcendental Rule may be that all human-established rules regarding governance of the mind and soul, are made to be transcended, because of an inner call to a higher order found only in the mysterious messages from Nature, or The Universe.  

I also write "will not," because the original Transcendentalists who gave this movement its name, have long since passed to The Great Beyond, in fact, the movement of this name had lost most of its original fire by the 1860's; and yet this enlightening movement lives inside all of those who fit taking on their mantle, liberating Spirit in THE NOW. 

Transcendentalists don't remain frozen or especially complicit, in any belief-systems of a solely human-based organization, but rather, feel the newness of each incoming, personal transmission from instinctual inspirations out of the ether of their Nature.  It is in this way, that I feel their kinship with The Romantics.  They lived for inspirations from Nature's ungovernable magic transforming their lives, and their thought-provoking, humanistic artistic expressions, unbound by dogma or earth-bound pessimism.  

I believe the post-2000 transcendental morphings of today, do add on to where 1800's Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, and their loosely associated peers, were reaching for back in their day.  'We' (who respond to the instincts of these poet-philosophers) carry the 1800's Transcendentalist torch of idealist thought, Spirit, and poetic mysticism, forward into deepening pools of individualist illuminations: 

"The Post-2000 Transcendentalists." 

One may ask...what are the differences between them, and us in The Now?  I'd like to share my considerations of aspects that are worth being kept and carried forward...and the new perceptions or active differences that have developed since the guidelines were first expressed, such as in the movement-defining essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature" (1836).  

I comment from my own perceptions of this mysticism, as an insider from our post-internet world which the original Transcendentalists could scarcely have imagined would be in our future.  Is any of this organic, Nature-based Spirituality relevant, in a digitally-wired world of technological dominance?  I say, YES...NOW, MORE THAN EVER...if being humanistic still matters, always YES ~ because not an ounce of "the cynicism of NO," will buoy my heart on its death-bed...but embers burning from my eternal, poetic Love for Life, despite all pit-falls or heart-break, will see me through the dark tunnel into an undying light.  

YES.  I am a Transcendentalist.