Hesychasm as the antithesis of Gnosticism
The article is devoted to a comparative study of Hesychasm in its relation to Gnosticism. According to contemporary research, Hesychasm is regarded not only as an Eastern Orthodox practice of silent prayer, but also as an intellectual movement ...
Aleksei I. Ivanenko
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The truth of faith and the truth of doubt in the story 'Simon Miracle Worker' of Danilo Kiš [PDF]
The story 'Simon Miracle Worker', which opens the last Kiš's Collection of Stories, the Encyclopaedia of the Dead, contains 'the poetics of condensation', and together with it, a documentary procedure.
Bečejski Mirjana
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Esoterismo ocidental em terras latinoamericanas: notas sobre o Movimento Gnóstico de Samael Aun Weor
This article presents the Colombian esoteric Samael Aun Weor in two contexts: first, inserted in a more general framework arrival of European esoteric ideas to Latin America and its reinterpretation from endogenous peculiarities; in this particular case,
Marcelo Leandro de Campos +1 more
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The Corrupted “Wheel of Life”: An Essay on Ouroboroses
The focus of this article is a symbolic image often found in world mythology – a giant snake or a dragon biting its own tail. This image is usually denoted by the Greek word “ouroboros” (οὐροβόρος), which means literally “eating its own tail.” This essay
Uzlaner Dmitry
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The Source of Life: Meditation and Spirituality in Healthcare for a Comprehensive Approach to The COVID-19 Syndemic. [PDF]
Bormolini G +4 more
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'More evolved than you': Evolutionary spirituality as a cultural frame for psychedelic experiences. [PDF]
Evans J.
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The research is devoted to a unique document from the archive of L. P. Karsavin’s family – a drawing of an eight-pointed Orthodox cross decorated with visual elements and fragments from the Bible in Greek and Hebrew.
Vladimir Sharonov / Владимир Иванович Шаронов
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Cybergnosis: Digital Transcendence and the New Quest for Sacred Knowledge
This article presents Gnosticism as a universal human aspiration toward transcendent knowledge rather than a historically bounded religious phenomenon or school of thought.
Mikolaj Martinjak
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Religion and Spirituality among American Indian, South Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latina, and White Women in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health. [PDF]
Kent BV +18 more
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The author analyzes Andrzej Żuławski’s film L’amour braqué (1985) as an adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel The Idiot. He explains why Żuławski transferred the plot and characters of the novel to contemporary times, to France in the 1980s, and ...
Marcin Maron
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