They did not merely keep Otherness away.
These unusual experiences were described as‘the vastness,'‘the sacredness,' and‘the Otherness,' among many other terms.
The word‘Otherness,' which signified Krishnamurti's psychic experiences,
was now appearing regularly in almost all his works.
We see the excitement and the possibilities, or we see the Otherness and the we distrust it.
Adrian Snodgrass sees the study of history and Asian cultures by architects as a hermeneutical encounter with Otherness.
Most of American Indian youth are rejecting the ugliness of their parents and
choosing to respect the Otherness of the other.
But this radical approach,
aiming at neither official approval nor persecution but the preservation of“Otherness,” lost out to the power of cultural assimilation.
In settled, ordered
communities, vagrants have been historically characterised as outsiders, embodiments of Otherness, objects of scorn or mistrust,
or worthy recipients of help and charity.
In a recent book chapter, I argue that walls
act as communication devices that symbolise belonging or Otherness to the communities that reside within and outside their bounds.
It may take a few generations for Hindutvadis and
Islamists to see the value of respecting the Otherness of the other and accepting the God-given uniqueness of each other.
First, they must work to dissociate cannabis intoxicants and
medicines from colonial notions of“Oriental” Otherness and Muslim violence that ironically underpinned both the rise
and fall of hashish as medicine in France during the 19th century.