Noblesville native explores nature of mysticism in honors presentation at Virginia Military Institute

Noblesville native explores nature of mysticism in honors presentation at Virginia Military Institute

Submitted LEXINGTON, Va. – Brooks Freeman ’25, a Noblesville  native and an English major at Virginia Military Institute (VMI), sought a common core between the philosophies of Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī, a 13th century Middle Eastern Sufi mystic and poet, and Søren Kierkegaard, a 19th century Danish philosopher, theologian, and poet, in his honors presentation, “Varieties of Mystical Experience: Encountering the Absolute in Rūmī and Kierkegaard.” Freeman