A generalised approach to the study and understanding of adaptive evolution
ABSTRACT Evolutionary theory has made large impacts on our understanding and management of the world, in part because it has been able to incorporate new data and new insights successfully. Nonetheless, there is currently a tension between certain biological phenomena and mainstream evolutionary theory.
Pim Edelaar, Jun Otsuka, Victor J. Luque
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Investigating What a "Place of Safety" is in Mysticism [PDF]
In Islamic mysticism as well as in mystical literature, the concept of "safe position" is sometimes spoken of. This study seeks to investigate what a "safe position" is in mystical texts. In the path of the emergence of creation, everything that has been
Adel Meghdadian, Aboulfazl Tajik
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Meaning of the Metaphor of “Idol” in the Mystical Poems of Hafez and Imam Khomeini [PDF]
One of the mystical metaphors in the poems of mystical poets is the comparisonof the word and meaning of idol with Almighty God. Several aspects can be foundIn this metaphor: First, an aesthetic look at the idol; an idol is an adorable beautythat ...
Adel Meghdadian+2 more
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Mystic Reflection Groups [PDF]
This paper aims to systematically study mystic reflection groups that emerged independently in the paper [Selecta Math. (N.S.) 14 (2009), 325-372, arXiv:0806.0867] by the authors and in the paper [Algebr. Represent. Theory 13 (2010), 127-158, arXiv:0806.3210] by Kirkman, Kuzmanovich and Zhang.
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Practice and the Comparative Study of Mysticism: \u3cem\u3eThe Yoga Sūtra\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eThe Cloud of Unknowing\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
In his entry for the term “mysticism” in the updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, Peter Moore writes that “the varieties of mystical practice tend to receive less scholarly attention than the varieties of experience or doctrine.”1 Bernard ...
Young, Glenn
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A look at Refutations of Christianity in Azarbayjan Region [PDF]
The phenomenon of writing refutation against the two religions of Islam and Christianity has a history as long as the time when they first fought against each other.
mansour moatamedi, hasan aminifar
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A symbolic reading of Ibn Arabi's Shatranj al-Ārifin and Sheikh A’lā al-Dowleh Semnāni 's Shatranjiya Treatise [PDF]
A symbol is one of the signs of expression with the help of which a person reveals the unknown, ambiguous and inexpressible content of his mind. Mystics have used symbolism to develop their mystical thoughts.
Elham Rezvani Moghadam+1 more
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Contrapuntal Aspects of the Mystic Chord and Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5 [PDF]
We present statistical evidence for the importance of the "mystic chord" in Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53, from a computational and mathematical counterpoint perspective. More specifically, we compute the effect sizes and $\chi^{2}$ tests with respect to the distributions of counterpoint symmetries in the Fuxian and mystic counterpoint worlds ...
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Mysticism beyond time: A comparative study of traditional vs. modern mysticism [PDF]
Mysticism in modernity is often described as ‘muddled’ and ‘superficial’ in contemporary research. These negative connotations are especially outstanding when modern mysticism is compared to a ‘classical’ or ‘traditional’ version of mysticism.
Szugyiczki Zsuzsanna
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Erich Neumann – Der mystische Mensch
At the beginning of his essay, Erich Neumann, a student and friend of C. G. Jung with whom he maintained regular epistolary ties from 1933 until his death in 1960, immediately specified that his subject is not mysticism (die Mystik), but what is of the ...
Véronique Liard
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