Transcendentalism... My Understanding

Transcendentalism is not a religion, it is a way of thinking. One could be involved in a religion and still believe in Transcendentalism. Transcendentalism is how one views the world through their eyes. Knowing one's self is key to learning about transcendentalism. Transcendentalist are constantly faced with questions about themselves and their thoughts. Transcendentalist are also very nonconformist, or at least during their time era. At that time, many colonies and social areas were conformed and were taught to act certain way. It must have been hard to go against everyone in the community. But what motivated the transcendentalist was the phrase "fallow your heart". 

Transcendentalist believe in God, spirits, and souls. One of the most distinguishing feature of the Transcendentalist, is the belief of the over-soul. The over-soul is a main stream of life. Fragments of the over-soul reside inside all living thing, not just humans and animals, but nature. All plants are believed to have an over-soul as well. If one imagines there is two parts to the world, a physical and a spiritual, transcendentalist link the physical to the spiritual. Instead of using science to answer "how" and "why" objects function the way they do, transcendentalist use believes that the supernatural causes them to do so.