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Beyond the Mystical Experience Model: Theurgy as a Framework for Ritual Learning with Psychedelics

Religions
Contemporary interpretations of psychedelic spirituality are dominated by the “mystical experience model,” which emphasizes that psychedelics can lead to well-being through bringing about ego dissolution and a unitive mystical experience.
André van der Braak
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Paideia Platonikê: Does the later Platonist programme of education retain any validity today? [PDF]

SCHOLE, 2017
The question I wish to address on this occasion is whether the Platonic course of study retains any validity in the modern world. I shall argue that some version of it indeed might, though by no means for everybody.
John Dillon
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The language of Iamblichus’ Babyloniaka: phonetic and morphological aspects

, 2022
Agradezco al Dr. Manuel Sanz Morales y a los revisores anónimos las valiosas observaciones y sugerencias realizadas a este trabajo.La novela fragmentaria Babiloníacas, escrita por Jámblico a finales del siglo II d.C.
Amado Román, Carlos
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To Begin so Early and to Persevere over a Long Period of Time.​ Reflections on Time on the Horizon of Human Experience in the Anonymus Iamblichi

Peitho
The interest of scholars in the Anonymous of Iamblichus has been oriented in two main ways: it focuses either on the problem of its dating and authorship, or on one or other of the many themes which seem to have been on the agenda of the investigation ...
Miriam Campolina Diniz Peixoto
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THE SACRAMENT OF THE SYNAXIS IN THE CORPUS DIONYSIACUM AND IN ST MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2008
The fi rst and true communion with Jesus is considered in Corpus Dionysiacum (CD) to be noetic contemplation and knowledge. The communion by means of the Eu-charistic bread and wine is called the participation «as in image» or «symbolic». How-ever, it is
V. PETROFF
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Ciało ludzkie i jego udział w szczęściu nieba – koncepcja Pseudo-Dionizego Areopagity wobec poglądów neoplatoników pogańskich

Vox Patrum, 2015
In seventh chapter of his On the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite treats on the ceremony of burial. While explaining the rites he makes a few remarks on the Christian understanding of the body and its fate af­ter death, and how ...
Tomasz Stępień
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Did Eustathius the Philosopher Become Eustathius of Sebastea? A Contribution to Federico Fatti’s Hypothesis

Vox Patrum
In 2009, Federico Fatti published a hypothesis that Eustathius the Philosopher, described by Eunapius, converted to Christianity and became bishop of Sebastea and master to Basil the Great.
Marta Przyszychowska
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The Reception of Bantu Divination in Modern South Africa: African Traditional Worldview in Interaction with European Thought

Religions
Bantu African divination is firmly established in South Africa in the context of modernity and is protected, endorsed and regulated by law. It is received in the therapeutic field.
Ullrich Relebogilwe Kleinhempel
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Συνουσία in Late Antique Neoplatonic Schools: A Concept between Social History, History of Education and History of Philosophy

Literature
It is well studied that some Pythagorean principles lied at the foundations of the Late Antique Neoplatonic School. The main reason for that conclusion to be drawn is the two biographies of the Samian sage written by the Neoplatonic philosophers Porphyry
Marco Alviz Fernández, David Hernández de la Fuente   +1 more
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Systematic Theology: Iamblichus' Reception of Plotinian Psychology

, 2015
The following inquiry seeks to demonstrate that Iamblichus’ account of theurgy, rather than an example of a theological critique emerging from outside of the Platonic school, represents a development of the tradition as mediated through Plotinus.
McAllister, Nathan
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