regarding current discussion of wisdom, its history and nature 

please find the enclosed... 

I mentioend earlier I had taught a course for the University of London way 
back in 1994 on Wisdom and Education in the World's Philosophical and 
Spiritual Traditions - this is one of the outcomes from that course and 
related research over the years.... 

thanks 

thomas 

 

UNIVERSAL CALENDAR OF SAINTS AND SAGES 

This unique reference calendar includes saints and sages for every day of 
the calendar year. Unlike other such Calendars, it includes saints and sages 
from every religion and faith tradition, including the following: 
Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Paganism, Wicca, Druidry, 
Shamanism, Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Secular Humanism, Marxism, Freudian 
thought, Bahaism, Shintoism, Jainism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Theosophy, 
Anthroposophy, Kabbalah, Sufism, Scientific traditions, the Arts etc. 

The Universal Calendar of Saints and Sages marks the beginning of a new 
epoch in the comparative study of spiritual and intellectual history. For 
the first time a friendly and usable reference tool is available to generate 
endless study and research into the great sages and spiritual seers of 
humanity, in a non-competitive and non-judgmental manner, which should 
appeal to all those who are genuinely interested in the philosophical 
approach to truth, peace and reconciliation between apparently rival or 
competing faith traditions. The entries themselves have been left 
deliberately sparse so as to encourage students and readers to explore the 
lives and teachings of the listed exemplars at their own pace. The thinking 
behind the work is that only at the level of the work of saints and sages 
can mankind find sufficient light, wisdom and inspiration to make it through 
our current times of darkness, trial and tribulation. The author (Thomas C. 
Daffern)  has been working on this project on and off for many years, and 
offers this work in humility to the international community of living 
scholars, sages, saints and seers, and their respective students and pupils, 
in the hope that together we can produce a second subsequent companion 
volume, a Universal Calendar of Living Saints and Sages. Also, that together 
we can add to , improve, amend and update in the existing Universal Calendar 
of Saints and Sages. 

This new work has just been published at Michaelmas, 2006, and is available 
for purchase at - www.lulu.com/iipsgp