A FRAMEWORK OF SPIRITUALITY FOR THE FUTURE OF NATURALISM
Abstract William James wrote that the life of religion “consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.” Naturalism organizes our experiences of the universe within a science‐grounded philosophical and/or religious framework aligning it with what is supremely good for our
John Calvin Chatlos
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Sadr al-Din Shirazi and natural human rights [PDF]
Introduction There have always been two viewpoints on the human rights in the history of Western philosophy: some philosophers adhere to Natural Law, while the others follow Positive Law. Among modern philosophers, Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, and among
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Kabbalistic Theosophy in the Light of the Spinozian Pantheistic Monism [PDF]
mgr Dorota Brylla, Uniwersytet Zielonogórski, absolwentka Religioznawstwa na Uniwersytecie Jagiellońskim w Krakowie; obecnie doktorantka w Instytucie Filozofii na Uniwersytecie ZielonogórskimThis article presents the essential thesis from the Kabbalah ...
Brylla, Dorota
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TRANSCENDENT PRINCIPLES OF MA‘ĀD IN THE QUR`AN [PDF]
This article explains the various principles and discourses in understanding ma‘ād, depending on the point of view of the school of thought, whether theological, rationalist or transcendental theosophy (al-ḥikmah al-muta‘āliyah).
Adnani, Hasyim
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The First Psychonaut?: Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet's Experiments with Narcotics [PDF]
This article calls attention to the important but neglected French Mesmerist, Spiritualist, Swedenborgian, and occultist Louis-Alphonse Cahagnet (1809–1885), while concentrating on his significance as a forgotten pioneer of modern entheogenic esotericism.
Wouter Hanegraaff, Hanegraaff, W.J.
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A Study of Gradation of Ranks and Manifestations from the Viewpoint of Allameh Tabataba’i [PDF]
After entering the Islamic philosophy, gradation underwent major changes to the point that gradation of existence became replaced with gradation of manifestation in transcendental theosophy as mystical epistemology gave no credit to gradation of ...
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Subsistence Through Disappearance: Theology of the Unseen in the Films of Michelangelo Antonioni
ABSTRACT The present study contends that the theology of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1960s cinema is structured by a reductio ad absurdum logic, whereby the presence of certain qualities is proven by the portrayal of their absence. It is argued that Antonioni's intention to show what is by specifying what is not may have been rooted in a modernist ...
Vuk Uskoković
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The conception of supernaturalism in religious systems of the East (Asia) and their reception in the West (the USA and Europe) based on ideology of New Age [PDF]
Present article aims at showing the supernaturalism conception of religious systems of the East against the background of Christian supernaturalism conception based on the Word of God and the conception of New Age Movement which is built on worldview of ...
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ATMOSFEAR: Horror of nature and the nature of horror in Algernon Blackwood
Abstract The impact that the stories of Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) have had on the literature of the uncanny can hardly be overestimated. However, there is almost no research on Blackwood's life and work. Against the background of a presentation of themes and motifs of Blackwood's narrative œuvre, this article develops a characteristic of his ...
Dominic Angeloch
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Abstract The goddess Isis continues to be an influential figure for the notion of the Divine Feminine in contemporary esoteric and popular thought. However, looking back into the history of modern esotericism, the image of the goddess Isis has been used by Theosophists such as Florence Farr and Frances Swiney to argue for their feminist and more ...
Jessica A. Albrecht
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