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Mundus - Tome 1

Autor: Laurent Queyssi

Número de Páginas: 138

Ne sommes-nous pas tous des personnages de fiction ? Nos imaginaires prennent ils forment quelque part ? Existe-t-il une voie pour s'y rendre ? Le 19 juin 1991, Anaïs, Ben, Matt fêtent la fin de l'année scolaire mais une panne de courant dans la ville permet l'ouverture d'un portail dimensionnelle dans lequel l'équipe s'engouffre. Après avoir découvert une planète de sables à la ressemblance troublante avec celle d'un livre de science-fiction qu'Anaïs a lu quelques mois plus tôt, leur aventure va les amener à rencontrer un petit groupe de cyber terroristes perdu dans notre monde... Que se passe-t-il dans cette ville ? La Mundus corp et leurs installations à la périphérie de la ville y sont-elles pour quelque chose ? Ou bien est-ce quelque chose de plus personnel impliquant Anaïs et son père ? Enfin, comment nous, simple lecteur pourrions avoir une part de responsabilité dans cette étrange aventure ? Laurent Queyssi est auteur, scénariste, traducteur et spécialiste de l'œuvre de Philip K. Dick et d'Alan Moore. Avec Mundus il interroge la puissance créatrice de la fiction et son influence fertile sur le réel accompagné au dessin par Oriol Roig qui fait preuve ...

Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah

Autor: Moshe Idel

Número de Páginas: 195

This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah—the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the "original" Spanish stage of Kabbalah and Muslim mysticism in the East, mainly in the Galilee. The influence of the Kabbalistic-Sufic synthesis on the later developments of Jewish mysticism is traced, thereby providing a more precise understanding of the history of Kabbalah as an interplay between the theosophical and ecstatic mystical experiences.

Mundus imaginalis ou l'imaginaire et l'imaginal

Autor: Henry Corbin

Número de Páginas: 24

Spirituality and Global Ethics

Autor: Mahmoud Masaeli , Rico Sneller

Número de Páginas: 345

This volume addresses three fundamental questions about the interplay between the ethics of globality and spirituality: What are the practical implications of spirituality for the condition of life in a turbulent era of violent religious/non-religious extremism? In what way can spirituality, the view of love, compassion, tolerance, and mutual recognition encounter mistrust, enmity, separateness, and violence? How, and in what way, can spirituality contribute to the newly emerging global ethics? Religious scholars distinguish between the esoteric and exoteric sides of belief systems. Esotericism centres on the inner awareness, and conceals a certain spirituality that is only transmittable to those who could successfully pass through a process of initiatic preparation and transpersonal practices to understand the mystical dimensions of existence. In contrast, exotericism takes the outer dimension of every day consciousness into account and favours the possibility of the popular understanding of the essence of existence. In this perspective, truth could be grasped by the public without the need of any transpersonal initiative and transformation of consciousness. Esotericism extends...

Modernity and the Political Fix

Autor: Andrew Gibson

Número de Páginas: 247

From their decisive emergence in the late eighteenth century, modernity and modern politics were long haunted by irony and paradox. Ours, however, is the age of the implosion of modernity. Modernity has degenerated into self-parody. The polarities that an ironic grasp of it could potentially always hold in tension are finally collapsing into each other. In Modernity and the Political Fix, Andrew Gibson tells the relevant story and asks what aspects of modern politics we might want to salvage and preserve and within what structure we might continue thinking about them. His answer is that these questions call for the isolation of a particular set of concepts; that, rightly positioned in relation to one another, the concepts amount to a political theology; that the very formulation of political temporality is therefore at stake; and that the thinking in question has been and is best represented in modern philosophy and art, above all, modern literature. Ranging through early modern and modern thought from Hobbes, Pascal and Leibniz to Rousseau, Kant, Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard to Foucault, Lacan, Badiou, Jambet and Rancière, and in modern literature and art from Wordsworth and...

L'Orient des femmes

Autor: Marie-elise Palmier-chatelain , Pauline Lavagne D'ortigue

Número de Páginas: 340

Ce recueil de textes offre un vaste nuancier de micro-lectures sur l'Orient des femmes : non seulement sur les femmes d'Orient, mais aussi sur les femmes en Orient, les femmes et l'Orient. En explorant des domaines aussi divers que l'histoire de l'art, l'histoire des sciences, la littérature classique, la littérature de voyage, l'anthropologie, les sciences politiques et la psychanalyse, ces études apportent l'éclairage de prismes différents, voire divergents, sur une réalité par essence plurielle. L'étude des représentations picturales, de la présence ou de l'absence des femmes dans la science, les littératures et les sociétés orientales, révèle une existence constante du féminin, une existence réprimée ou exaltée mais toujours à la croisée de l'imaginaire et du réel.

El poder del símbolo

Autor: Ibiza Melián

Número de Páginas: 66

Ensayo compuesto por una serie de artículos sobre el mundo simbólico. Lenguaje empleado a lo largo de la historia para ser entendido por los adeptos adscritos a una línea esotérica de pensamiento. Ya fueran los pitagóricos, los órficos, el hermetismo, la cábala o la alquimia. Sin olvidar a las «sociedades discretas» como las de los masones, martinistas o rosacruces. El fin último era que lo fragmentado retornase a la unidad primigenia.

Border Visions

Autor: Jakub Kazecki , Karen A. Ritzenhoff , Cynthia J. Miller

Número de Páginas: 301

Over the last several decades, the boundaries of languages and national and ethnic identities have been shifting, altering the notion of borders around the world. Borderland areas, such as East and West Europe, the US/Mexican frontera, and the Middle East, serve as places of cultural transfer and exchange, as well as arenas of violent conflict and segregation. As communities around the world merge across national borders, new multi-ethnic and multicultural countries have become ever more common. Border Visions: Identity and Diaspora in Film offers an overview of global cinema that addresses borders as spaces of hybridity and change. In this collection of essays, contributors examine how cinema portrays conceptions of borderlands informed by knowledge, politics, art, memory, and lived experience, and how these constructions contribute to a changing global community. These essays analyze a variety of international feature films and documentaries that focus on the lives, cultures, and politics of borderlands. The essays discuss the ways in which conflicts and their resolutions occur in borderlands and how they are portrayed on film. The volume pays special attention to contemporary...

Science & Consciousness

Autor: M. Cazenave

Número de Páginas: 440

This book explores the concept of consciousness when defined in the terms mind, spirit, soul and awareness. It consists of the edited proceedings of a colloquium held in Cordoba, at which experts in physics, neuro- and psycho-physiology, analytical psychology, philosophy and religious knowledge discussed aspects of their work related to this main theme. The following areas are covered: quantum mechanics and the role of consciousness, neurophysiology and states of consciousness, the manifestation of the psyche in consciousness, the odyssey of consciousness, and science and consciousness. The discussions which follow give a multi-disciplinary perspective on the questions involved.

Schizoanalysis and Asia

Autor: Joff P. N. Bradley

Número de Páginas: 393

This book is an update, extension and radicalization of Guattari’s philosophy of the postmedia. It is the first of its kind to comprehensively apply Guattari’s thought on postmedia to post-millennium technological developments. Given the considerable interest in Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze’s work and its influence in Asia and South-East Asia and beyond, the book is a timely contribution and update of Guattari’s essential concepts. It offers a fresh approach to applying Guattari and Deleuze to local contexts. Both Félix Guattari’s schizoanalysis and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy remain excellent tools to decode the politics of postmedia. The book centres around the influence of Guattari’s work on the Japanese archipelago and how Japan itself impacted on the work of Guattari in the 1980s. The book updates Guattari’s work and apply it to the problems which are affecting societies in Asia and beyond. It highlights current research on postmedia by scholars who are working to understand how Japanese society is functioning post-Fukushima and how the country continues to toil from the “geo-trauma” of the real.

Listening to Ayahuasca

Autor: Rachel Harris, Phd

Número de Páginas: 378

Used for thousands of years by indigenous tribes of the Amazon rain forest, the mystical brew ayahuasca is now becoming increasingly popular in the West. Psychologist Rachel Harris here shares her own healing experiences and draws on her original research (the largest study of ayahuasca use in North America) into the powerful medicine’s effects on depression, addiction, PTSD, and anxiety. In this wide-ranging and personal exploration, Harris details ayahuasca’s risks and benefits, helping readers clarify their intentions and giving psychotherapists a template for transformative care and healing.

Angels of Desire

Autor: Jay Johnston

Número de Páginas: 299

The idea that the human body consists of 'subtle bodies' - psycho-spiritual essences - can be found in a variety of esoteric traditions. This radical form of selfhood challenges the dualisms at the heart of Western discourse : mind/body, divine/human, matter/spirit, reason/emotion, I/other. 'Angels of Desire' explores the aesthetics and ethics of subtle bodies. What emerges is an understanding of embodiment not exclusively tied to materiality. The book examines the use of subtle bodies across a range of traditions, yogic, tantric, theosophical, hermetic and sufi. 'Angels of Desire' shows the relevance of the subtle body for religion, philosophy, art history and contemporary feminist religious studies and theories of desire.

Embrace of the Daimon

Autor: Sandra Lee Dennis

Número de Páginas: 308

Some call the imaginal the realm of the archetypes, the home of the gods and goddesses, the land of the daimon, or the source of creativity. Others simply call it the soul. The daimon of the imaginal world facilitate the incarnation of soul into the physical body, and transforming these dark energies allows us to progress as spiritual beings, to live life from a more conscious view. Sandra Dennis suggests that attitudes devaluing the erotic, feminine, instinctual energies particularly those of sexuality, and destructiveness and the marginalization of bodily sensation itself, block these daimonic soul images from incarnating. She discusses our tendency to block these transforming forces and offers suggestions on how to embrace and reclaim them to allow for a more integrated existence. She explains sensations associated with daimonic imagery fragmentation, rage, anxiety, pain, also the other side ecstasy, bliss, orgasmic release understanding that all of these sensations form the basis for profound change in the sense of self. Bibliography. Index.

Passions, Persons, Psychotherapy, Politics

Autor: Andrew Samuels

Número de Páginas: 319

Andrew Samuels is one of the best known figures internationally in the fields of psychotherapy, Jungian analysis, relational psychoanalysis and counselling, and in academic studies in those areas. His work is a blend of the provocative and original together with the reliable and scholarly. His many books and papers figure prominently on reading lists in clinical and academic teaching contexts. This self-selected collection, Passions, Persons, Psychotherapy, Politics, brings together some of Samuels' major writings at the interface of politics and therapy thinking. In this volume, he includes chapters on the market economy; prospects for eco-psychology and environmentalism; the role of the political Trickster, particularly the female Trickster; the father; relations between women and men; and his celebrated and radical critique of the Jungian idea of ‘the feminine principle’. Clinical material consists of his work with parents and on the therapy relationship. The book concludes with his seminal and transparent work on Jung and anti-semitism and an intriguing account of the current trajectory of the Jungian field. Samuels has written a highly personal and confessional...

Jungian Crime Scene Analysis

Autor: Aaron B. Daniels

Número de Páginas: 478

This book presents the serial killer as having 'imagopathy' - that is, a disorder of the imagination - manifested through such deficiencies as failure of empathy, rigid fantasies, and unresolved projections. The author argues that this disorder is a form of failed alchemy. His study challenges long-held assumptions that the Jungian concept of individuation is a purely healthful drive. Serial killers are unable to form insight after projecting untenable material onto their victims. Criminal profilers must therefore effect that insight informed by their own reactions to violent crime scene imagery, using what the author asserts is a form of Jung's 'active imagination'. This book posits sexual homicides as irrational shadow images in our rationalistic modern culture. Consequently, profilers bridge conscious and unconscious for the inexorably splintered killer as well as the culture at large.

The Book of Becoming

Autor: Ronald Alan Meakin

Número de Páginas: 375

'Why is there something, rather than nothing?' From the ancient text found on The Emerald Tablet, the motion implicit in achieving higher levels of consciousness is explored through questions surrounding whether evolution proceeds through natural selection or by controlled design and whether the nature of evolution itself is changing. Along our journey we ask whether Gaia theory can by extended beyond an earthly arena, whether science and religion are really incompatible and how do paranormal experiences, such as clairvoyance, actually arise. Considerations of free will, choice, the nature of time and virtue will lead us to identify the obstacles to be found in the way of our survival and whether, or not, we are capable of developing the means to prevent the extinction of the human race.

Jung’s Red Book for Our Time

Autor: Murray Stein , Thomas Arzt

Número de Páginas: 510

The spiritual malaise regnant in today’s disenchanted world presents a picture of “a polar night of icy darkness,” as Max Weber wrote already a century ago. This collective dark night of the soul is driven by climate change-related disasters, rapid technological innovations, and opaque geostra­tegic realign­ments. In the wake of what policy analysts refer to as “Westlessness,” the post­modern age is characterized by incessant distractions, urgent calls to responsibility, and in-humanly short deadlines, which result in a general state of exhaustion and burnout. The hovering sense of living in a time frame that is post-histoire induces states of confusion on a personal level as well as in the realm of politics. Totally missing is a grand nar­rative to guide humanity’s vision in the midst of a world crisis. Thinkers, scholars, and Jungian analysts are increasingly looking to C.G. Jung’s monu­mental oeuvre, The Red Book, as a source for guidance to re-enchant the world and to find a new and deeper under­standing of the homo religiosus. The essays in this series on Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions circle around this...

The Plural Psyche

Autor: Andrew Samuels

Número de Páginas: 274

Pluralism can bridge the gaps that have opened up between personal experience, psychotherapy, and cultural criticism. In The Plural Psyche: Personality, Morality and the Father, a provocative, much praised and widely discussed book, Andrew Samuels lays bare the political implications of the personal struggle everyone has to hold their many inner divisions together. He also shows how pluralism can inspire new thinking in many areas including moral process, the construction of gender, and the role of the father in the development of sons and daughters. In addition, there are innovative chapters on clinical work, focusing on imagery and on countertransference. These themes come to life in a way that makes a significant contribution to debates about psychotherapy, gender, parenting and difference. This Classic Edition of The Plural Psyche includes a new introduction by the author.

That Wondrous Pattern

Autor: Kathleen Raine

Número de Páginas: 188

“There is no exaggeration in pointing out that these essays are addressed to the soul of the reader. They are not academic exercises in erudition as a contribution to ‘Eng. Lit.’” —from the introduction by Brian Keeble Kathleen Raine was one of the greatest British poets of the last century. Born to a deeply literary and spiritual household, she went on to study at Cambridge, where she met Jacob Bronowski, William Empson, and Malcolm Lowry. A dedicated neoPlatonist, she studied and presented the works of Thomas Taylor and wrote seminal books on William Blake. With Keith Critchlow, Brian Keeble, and Philip Sherrard, she founded, in 1981, the Temenos Academy of Integral Studies, its journal Temenos, and, later, the Temenos Academy Review. HRH The Prince of Wales became the patron of the academy in 1997. For our new selection, That Wondrous Pattern, Raine offers sixteen essays that range from “The Inner Journey of the Poet” and “What Is Man?” to essays on Blake, Wordsworth, Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, and several others. The centerpiece, “What Is the Use of Poetry?”, is a rigorous defense of the great art. Editor Brian Keeble himself contributes a fascinating...

The Subject(s) of Phenomenology

Autor: Iulian Apostolescu

Número de Páginas: 380

Bringing together established researchers and emerging scholars alike to discuss new readings of Husserl and to reignite the much needed discussion of what phenomenology actually is and can possibly be about, this volume sets out to critically re-evaluate (and challenge) the predominant interpretations of Husserl’s philosophy, and to adapt phenomenology to the specific philosophical challenges and context of the 21st century. “What is phenomenology?”, Maurice Merleau-Ponty asks at the beginning of his Phenomenology of Perception – and he continues: “It may seem strange that this question still has to be asked half a century after the first works of Husserl. It is, however, far from being resolved.” Even today, more than half a century after Merleau-Ponty’s magnum opus, the answer is in many ways still up for grasp. While it may seem obvious that the main subject of phenomenological inquiry is, in fact, the subject, it is anything but self evident what this precisely implies: Considering the immense variety of different themes and methodological self-revisions found in Husserl’s philosophy – from its Brentanian beginnings to its transcendental re-interpretation...

Colour, Light and Wonder in Islamic Art

Autor: Idries Trevathan

Número de Páginas: 292

The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language of colour in Islamic art and architecture in dialogue with its aesthetic contexts, offering insights into the pre-modern Muslim experience of interpreting colour. The seventeenth-century Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran, represents one of the finest examples of colour-use on a grand scale. Here, Trevathan examines the philosophical and mystical traditions that formed the mosque's backdrop. He shows how careful combinations of colour and design proportions in Islamic patterns expresses knowledge beyond that experienced in the corporeal world, offering another language with which to know and experience God. Colour thus becomes a spiritual language, calling for a re-consideration of how we read Islamic aesthetics.

In-Between: Architectural Drawing and Imaginative Knowledge in Islamic and Western Traditions

Autor: Hooman Koliji

Número de Páginas: 251

Contemporary technical architectural drawings, in establishing a direct relationship between the drawing and its object, tend to privilege the visible physical world at the expense of the invisible intangible ideas and concepts, including that of the designer’s imagination. As a result, drawing may become a utilitarian tool for documentation, devoid of any meaningful value in terms of a kind of knowledge that could potentially link the visible and invisible. This book argues that design drawings should be recognized as intermediaries, mediating between the world of ideas and the world of things, spanning the intangible and tangible. The notion of the 'Imaginal' as an intermediary between the invisible and visible is discussed, showing how architectural drawings lend themselves to this notion by performing as creative agents contributing not only to the physical world but also penetrating the realm of concepts. The book argues that this 'in-between' quality to architectural drawing is essential and that it is critical to perceive drawings as subtle bodies that hold physical attributes (for example, form, proportion, color), highly evocative, yet with no matter. Focusing on...

Songlines of the Soul

Autor: Veronica Goodchild

Número de Páginas: 418

The title for this book comes from the ancient Aboriginal concept of “song lines” —pathways to another world reached through dreamtime and visionary insight, and encounters with the unknown realm of experience. Veronica Goodchild addresses how dreams, synchronicities, UFO/ET encounters, Crop Circle mysteries, and NDEs all point to the new unfolding vision of reality. She draws on ancient mystery traditions to explore how this metamorphosis is already reflected cross-culturally in Hopi, Aztec, Mayan, Hindu, Tibetan, Maori, Zulu, Dogon, and Egyptian cultures. Songlines of the Soul proposes a new paradigm of reality, a new worldview. The signatures of this new reality are arising both in our own experiences and all around us if only we can stretch wide our stubbornly held perceptions of what is “reality.” As we stand at a crucial turning point in our human history, this book offers hope, a call to awaken and expand our perceptions of the fundamental principles that orchestrate reality. In an age when the answers offered by governments and traditional religion are no longer sufficient, the quest for meaning must—as it always has in the past—arise first through visions,...

Psychological, Archetypal and Phenomenological Perspectives on Soccer

Autor: David Huw Burston

Número de Páginas: 181

Soccer, or football, attracts vast numbers of passionate fans from all over the world; yet clinical psychology is yet to study it in depth. In this book, David Huw Burston, a consultant football psychology and performance coach, uses a phenomenological research method inspired by Amedeo Giorgi to consider what we can learn from the spirit of the game, and how this can be used positively in the consulting room and on the field of play. By examining detailed qualitative research with professional soccer players of both sexes, Burston identifies and considers nine particular themes, including the family, god, heroes and dreams, and discusses how what we can learn from the game of football and team culture can be applied to Jungian analysis today. This book bridges the gap between clinical psychology and sport, outlining potential shortfalls in current youth development in sport, as well as discussing how traditional Jungian archetypes can be identified in everyday settings. It will be of key interest to researchers from both the fields of analytical psychology and sports studies.

The Voyage and the Messenger

Autor: Henry Corbin

Número de Páginas: 297

This work, incorporating previously unpublished interviews and articles, retraces the quest of Henry Corbin into the imaginal realm of the unseen self, the domains of angels and numinous beings. A study of religious philosophy, exploration of visionary faith, these pages offer a superb meditation of the great themes of Perso-Islamic mysticism—the Sufi theory of knowledge, the voyage within the soul, le rituel de la coupe—and an illuminating glimpse into the philosophic universes of Sohravardi, Ibn Arabi, and Molla Sarda Shirazi.

Liminal Dreaming

Autor: Jennifer Dumpert

Número de Páginas: 249

A consciousness and dream hacker explains how to use liminal dreaming—the dreams that come between sleep and waking—for self-actualization and consciousness expansion. At the edges of consciousness, between waking and sleeping, there’s a swirling, free associative state of mind that is the domain of liminal dreams. Working with liminal dreams can improve sleep, mitigate anxiety and depression, help to heal trauma, and aid creativity and problem-solving. As we sink into slumber, we pass through hypnagogia, the first of the two liminal dream states. In this transitional zone, memories, perceptions, and imaginings arise in a fast moving, hallucinatory, semi-conscious remix. On the other end of the night, as we wake, we experience hypnopompia—the hazy, pleasant, drift that is the other liminal dream state. Readers of Liminal Dreaming will learn step-by-step how to create a dream practice outside of REM-sleep states that they can incorporate into their lives in personally meaningful ways. Liminal dreaming practice is also far easier to learn than lucid dreaming practice, making it possible for the reader to begin working with these dreams this very night.

La terapia del alma

Autor: Thomas Moore

Número de Páginas: 228

¿De qué materia está hecha el alma humana? Thomas Moore, autor de algunas de las obras más relevantes de nuestra época sobre psicología profunda, dedica su nuevo título al arte y el oficio de atender las necesidades del alma. A diferencia de la terapia convencional, que se centra en proponer cambios conductuales para resolver problemas concretos, Thomas Moore propone abordar la curación de la mente y el cuerpo desde la dimensión más espiritual e insondable del ser humano. La terapia del alma conduce al lector por los paisajes más fascinantes de la psique, que se manifiestan a través de arquetipos, mitos, sueños, síntomas, complejos o narrativas personales. Más de tres décadas de trabajo culminan en esta obra, que se revelará en una herramienta esencial para psicólogos, psiquiatras, consejeros espirituales y para cualquier persona que desee ofrecer escucha y consejo de calidad. En último término, una propuesta fascinante para todos aquellos lectores dispuestos a profundizar en la comprensión del lenguaje con el que se expresa su alma.

The Angel’s Corpse

Autor: P. Colilli

Número de Páginas: 198

With the great merit of Aristotle's Poetics , poetic logic became a theoretical activity endowed with a philosophical nature allowing it to be more philosophical than the pure representation of existence. Today, however, the theoretical status of poetic logic has been greatly demoted. The Angel's Corpse restores to poetic logic (or lyric philosophy) the cognitive and epistemological significance attributed to it by Aristotle. The Angel's corpse (the central metaphor in this restoration) is a sign-post beyond which there exists an uncharted terrain of human signification. This terrain is expressed in terms of lyric philosophy and its universal trait is a shocking into reawakening, which is linked to the dissolution of the repetitive logic of history. With this book, Colilli aims to bring to life the traits that are close to the Angel and which amount to a new philosophy of culture and interpretation. This philosophy is free from the ideological burden of previous systems, but pivots its cognito-epistemological premises on the idea of reawakening.

Marco Frascari's Dream House

Autor: Marco Frascari , Federica Goffi

Número de Páginas: 239

The last book from Marco Frascari Strong introduction by Federica Goffi makes the book more accessible to the student audience Marco’s sketchbooks are faithfully reproduced in full colour

Animal Soul

Autor: John C. Woodcock

Número de Páginas: 103

In this book the author seeks to comprehend what possible meaning such a term as animal soul could have today given the psychological distance from our own animal nature, existing as we do within a technological civilization. He explores the thought of four pioneers in depth psychology: C. G. Jung, James Hillman, Wolfgang Giegerich, and Russell Lockhart, before proposing a meaning that emerges from soul as understood from within a depth psychological perspective.

Les langages symboliques de l'ésotérisme maçonnique

Autor: Pierre Pelle Le Croisa

Número de Páginas: 787

Beaucoup de Iivres sur l'ésotérisme ont été écrits, des meilleurs comme des pires . si bien que le lecteur qui aborde ce sujet a très vite le sentiment d'être perdu dans une jungle où les arbres sont si serrés... qu'ils cachent eux-mêmes la forêt ! Pour tenter de résoudre ce dilemme, je me suis posé sept questions, auxquelles je réponds : Qu'est-ce que l'ésotérisme ? Y en a-t-il un ou plusieurs ? Et si oui, lesquels ? Qu'est-ce qui distingue ou rapproche les notions d'"ésotérisme", d'"occultisme" et d'"hermétisme" ? Quels sont leurs domaines d'intervention, les courants qui les traversent et les champs de leurs interrelations ? Y a-t-il des thèmes fondamentaux et universels à l'ésotérisme, quels que soient ses domaines, ses courants et ses champs ? Et si oui, combien y en a-t-il ? Et lesquels ? En quoi, quand et comment les thèmes fondamentaux et universels de l'ésotérisme ont-ils influencé les mythes, les rites et les archétypes maçonniques ? Pourquoi les langages symboliques de l'ésotérisme intéressent-ils l'homme d'aujourd'hui ? Enfin, quelle attitude l'initié peut-il (ou doit-il) adopter à l'égard des langages symboliques de l'ésotérisme...

Science de l'homme et tradition

Autor: Gilbert Durand

Número de Páginas: 240

Les sciences humaines sont en crise. Psychologies, sociologies, histoires et ethnologies ont confondu leur visée, l'Homo sapiens, avec une méthode unidimensionnelle héritée d'une physique périmée depuis l'apparition du « Nouvel Esprit Scientifique ». Gilbert Durand constate que cet échec péremptoire n'est dû qu'à un mirage pédagogique. À travers les recherches de pointe des anthropologues renaît l'aurore de retrouvailles avec le destin immémorial de l'Homo sapiens. Nous assistons progressivement à la résurrection d'une « Science de l'homme » qui, dans sa singularité, retrouve bien des données transmises par les savoirs traditionnels : là où la « Méthode » exerçait son emprise totalitaire, le pluralisme des singularités - le « polythéisme des valeurs » - devient le garant de l'unité compréhensive du Sapiens. Une « raison autre » reconstitue lentement mais sûrement les assises prometteuses d'un « Nouvel Esprit Anthropologique ». Gilbert Durand, agrégé de philosophie et professeur honoraire de l'université de Grenoble, a publié Introduction à la mythodologie, dans la même collection.

L'imaginaire durandien

Autor: Raymond Laprée , Christian Bellehumeur

Número de Páginas: 288

Que se fait-il d'original dans le « Nouveau Monde» autour de la théorie de l'imaginaire de Gilbert Durand se sont demandé les initiateurs de cet ouvrage. La réponse attendue s'est plutôt transformée en une nouvelle question: comment l' Amérique est-elle présente au «Monde» quand ses chercheurs, avec d'autres, explorent l'oeuvre de Gilbert Durand? Ainsi sont nées les sections du livre: les fondements de l'oeuvre, l'Orient de l'oeuvre, les paysages diversifiés de l'oeuvre, l'exploration empirique de l'oeuvre, et la concordance sociale de l' oeuvre. La thématique de l'ouvrage intéressera tant le public spécialisé dans l'un des nombreux domaines des sciences sociales et des humanités - anthropologie, sociologie, sciences religieuses, psychologie et (art- )thérapie, éducation, philosophie, littérature, arts - qu'un plus large public aux intérêts interdisciplinaires, intellectuels, culturels et artistiques tout aussi variés. En hommage à Gilbert Durand décédé le 7 décembre 2012, seize chercheurs -la plupart d'Amérique du Nord - présentent leurs champs d'études sous l'éclairage de l'« imaginaire durandien ». Ce sont Chaoying Durand Sun, Yves Durand,...

Le mystère des crânes de cristal

Autor: Sebastiano Fusco

Número de Páginas: 124

Qui a créé les 13 crânes de cristal retrouvés dans différents endroits du monde ? Et dans quel but ? De nombreuses anecdotes et croyances sont nées autour d?eux. Pour certains, il s?agirait d?objets de culte dotés de pouvoirs magiques . pour d?autres, d?objets extraterrestres abandonnés sur terre. Mais une vieille légende, diffusée par les Mayas et les Aztèques, raconte que les 13 crânes contiendraient des informations sur l'origine et le destin de l?humanité?

Myth and Philosophy

Autor: Frank E. Reynolds , David Tracy

Número de Páginas: 394

"The book as a whole seeks to reinvigorate an academic discipline (philosophy of religion) which has fallen on hard times, and to do so by building a bridge between philosophy and empirical-historical studies of religion. The topic is both significant and timely. Too long the empiricists have been inadequately sophisticated philosophically and too long the philosophers have ignored historical data both in its breadth and depth. In not only calling for bridges between these disciplines, but actually building some, the work makes a significant contribution to both." -- Alan Miller "This book is useful because it provides some insights both into the ways scholars think about various aspects of religious behavior, and also information about important features of such behavior. Both myth and philosophy are topics of great significance, and have been discussed by many philosophers and historians of religions and some anthropologists. An interesting set of questions about the nature of religion, and nature of philosophy and their relationships (and also about the nature of myth and its relationship to philosophy) is emerging at the forefront of academic discussions in departments of...

Gótico imaginal

Autor: José Ricardo Chaves

Número de Páginas: 210

José Ricardo Chaves: Gótico imaginal: Ensayos sobre androginia y esoterismo en literatura, Rialta Ediciones / UNAM, Querétaro / Ciudad de México, 2018, 208 pp. Gótico imaginal consigue, a partir de la combinación de exámenes de caso y revisiones historiográficas, articular tradiciones lingüísticas y culturales diversas (desde el sánscrito, el hindi o el japonés del siglo XVIII hasta el inglés del milenio que corre) bajo un código común; ese que emerge de la capacidad humana para comunicar las ambigüedades que nos hacen más vulnerables, los temores y terrores, los credos traicionados, las zonas a veces inevitablemente peor guardadas del individuo y sus comunidades. José Ricardo Chaves advierte y analiza en este libro parte del patrimonio estético y discursivo que ha dado forma y voz a la androginia y el hermafroditismo, a las prácticas y doctrinas esotéricas y rosacruces, a la imaginería del vampirismo y lo gótico. Entre conocidos y olvidados, obras de Virginia Woolf, Gustav Meyrink, William Butler Yeats, Mary W. Shelley, Jeffrey Eugenides, Yukio Mishima, Ueda Akinari, Hans Heinz Ewers, Franz Hartmann, Arnold Krumm-Heller, entre muchos otros, son convocadas...

A Different Kind of War Story

Autor: Carolyn Nordstrom

Número de Páginas: 276

"A deeply researched study into the nature of political violence."--

The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics

Autor: Stuart Douglas

Número de Páginas: 282

This book presents a comparison of the Gnostic worldviews of Carl G. Jung and science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick, two figures who have done far more than most to revive an interest in the Gnostic tradition in the modern world. Despite profoundly different approaches - one was a depth psychologist whose unique insights and approach to psychology forced him to explore the depths of the unconscious in a way that inevitably led him to touch frequently on metaphysical or spiritual matters; the other was an author of science-fiction - there are some striking parallels between their unique Gnostic visions. With the relatively recent publication of both Jung's and Dick's personal journals - The Red Book (2009), and, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (2011), respectively - in which they articulate their Gnostic visions, it seems timely to make this comparison.

Metanfetafísica

Autor: Germán Osvaldo Prósperi

Número de Páginas: 529

El libro parte de la hipótesis de que la metafísica occidental nace con una sobredosis, identificada por Platón con la idea del Bien en República 509b, a la que sin embargo intenta conjurar por todos los medios. Por el contrario, la apuesta del libro consiste en extremar la sobredosis ontológica y llevar al Ser a un estado de coma. Tal maniobra teórica, cuyo objetivo último es desfundamentar por completo a lo real, conduce a postular un Afuera absoluto del Ser que no se relativice y que, en consecuencia, no haga depender al Ser de esa Exterioridad radical. "La filosofía, en su extenso devenir histórico, ha manifestado la voluntad de asociar la metafísica con una actitud contemplativa, con el rigorismo especulativo, con una lógica de la asepsia y una geometría de los conceptos delimitados con paciencia en busca de una tranquilidad de espíritu. De hecho, Schopenhauer defendía la idea de que el ser humano es un animal metaphysicum, vale decir, que quiere dotar al mundo de un sentido que, más allá de sus consecuencias, pueda ser alentador para la vida serena. El filósofo Germán Prósperi, en este extraordinario libro, se libra a un camino inverso pues postula que la...