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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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«Perceptible forms of goods and truth». The beauty in the theurgy aesthetics of V.S. Solovjev

RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2008
The article deals with originality of V. Solovjev's aesthetics and his theurgy understanding of the nature of art creativity.
V A Meskin
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“THEURGY” PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPT AND RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY, ART AND RELIGION IN MODERN RUSSIA

Концепт: философия, религия, культура, 2018
The closer to the end of the positivist NINETEENTH century., the century of modern revolutions, the more obvious was the increase in the world of evil. The philosophers had a presentiment of the revival  of the Gnostic complex of this world alien to man.
N. A. Khrenov
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Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity

Les platonismes de l'Antiquité Tardive, 2012
Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity  Algis Uzdavinys (Author), John Finamore (Foreword), jan/2010 The Ancient Philosophy, in its original Orphico-Pythagorean and Platonic form, is not simply a way of life in accordance with the divine or human ...
Luciana Gabriela Soares Santoprete
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On the Structure and Significance of Augustine’s Moral Grammar

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 715-738, December 2021., 2021
Abstract This essay traces Augustine’s understanding of the structuring elements that give shape to human becoming. It presents this understanding as a distinctive form of maximalism in thinking about happiness, justice, and power, and as standing apart from classical and modern alternatives in its approach to desire, power, and mediation.
Martin Westerholm
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Métamorphoses du thème du retour de l’âme du De Regressu de Porphyre au livre X du De civitate Dei

Études Platoniciennes, 2022
Book 10 of the City of God is the main source about Porphyry’s On the return of the soul, but it can also be read as an Augustinian treatise On the return of the soul in which discussing with Porphyry gives Augustine the opportunity to take hold on the ...
Pauline Rates
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The Genesis of Myth in V. Solovyov’s Early Writings. Myth as Theogon [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2016
In Vladimir Solovyov’s works myth is presented in two ways: as the authorial myth, which is a part of the future “universal religion”, and as an object of theoretical refl ection in the process of philosophical and religious research.
Vaganova Natal'ia
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The Neoplatonic Substructure of Russian Orthodox Iconography and Theology

Визуальная теология, 2023
This paper aims to uncover the underlying Neoplatonic ideas embedded in Russian Orthodox iconography and theology. The focus is on two earlier figures of Neoplatonism, namely, Iamblichus and Plotinus.
Emile Alexandrov
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Plato and Hermes in Mani’s Prophetology: a possible adaptation to the theurgical milieu

Filosofia Unisinos, 2022
The aim of this article is to set forth conjectures that are likely to explain the inclusion of Plato and Hermes as heralds of Mani in the testimony of Ephrem of Syria.
João Paulo Dantas, Gabriele Cornelli
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Theurgy in Dionysius the Areopagite 1 [PDF]

, 2019
The present chapter aims at offering insights into Dionysius the Areopagite’s notion of theurgy, both with respect to the metaphysical principles that connect with “θεουργία” and the particular sacramental reality that emerges from it. Pavlos argues that
Pavlos, Panagiotis G.
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