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L'envers du monde - Henry Corbin et la mystique islamique

Autor: Tom Cheetham

Número de Páginas: 160

Henri Corbin et la mystique islamique Ce livre est une introduction claire et efficace à la pensée de Henry Corbin. Il ne s'agit pas d'un livre académique sur sa philosophie, mais bien d'une initiation aux différentes idées composant son oeuvre. L'importance et l'actualité des ouvrages de Henry Corbin sont indéniables. Le remarquable travail de synthèse de Tom Cheetham s'emploie à nous faire pénétrer toutes les facettes de cette oeuvre immense, érudite et d'une grande profondeur . il peut ainsi toucher un large public. Ce qu'il nous dévoile, c'est le niveau invisible, mais bien réel, de notre "acte d'être", de notre présence au monde, spirituel et matériel, invoquant les traditions - notamment celle de la spiritualité islamique - pour lesquelles "esprit" et "matière" sont deux faces d'une même réalité. A travers l'oeuvre de Henry Corbin, Tom Cheetham entreprend de conjurer le matérialisme et le nihilisme ambiants, aussi bien que toutes les formes d'"ismes" qui s'affrontent : radicalismes, totalitarismes, dogmatismes, etc. Là seulement, en rejoignant ce niveau de conscience où s'intègrent philosophies, religions et ésotérismes, pourra s'établir ce...

Henry Corbin

Autor: Daryush Shayegan

Número de Páginas: 277

Henry Corbin (1903-1978), qui a renouvelé en profondeur les études islamiques, en particulier iraniennes et mystiques, est un penseur multiforme et encore trop méconnu. Premier traducteur en France de Heidegger, il a puisé aux sources de la « philosophie prophétique » une pensée riche et profonde qui mérite sa place aux côtés des plus grands systèmes.Daryush Shayegan, lui-même Iranien et qui fut son élève, livre ici la première synthèse complète de son oeuvre. Métaphysique de l'imagination, prophétie et initiation, shî'isme, ismaélisme, Avicenne, Mollâ Sadrâ, Sohrawardî, angélologie, théophanie, religion de l'amour : autant de thèmes qui dessinent un paysage spirituel plein de promesses pour la réflexion contemporaine et où peut s'amorcer un réel dialogue entre l'Occident et l'Orient.

L’Orient des femmes

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 341

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.

New Perspectives on Henry Corbin

Autor: Hadi Fakhoury

Número de Páginas: 344

This collection brings together scholars from various fields to explore the work, life, and legacy of Henry Corbin (1903–1978), a towering figure in the modern study of Islamic esoteric spirituality. A valuable resource for students and researchers alike, it highlights Corbin's unique contributions not only to Islamic philosophy and mysticism, but also to Neoplatonism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, musical and literary theory, film criticism, political thought, and comparative religion.

Henry Corbin

Autor: Mohammad Ali Amir-moezzi

Número de Páginas: 256

Recueil des communications du colloque organisé à l'occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Henry Corbin. En trois sections : philosophie, islam et judaïsme et judéo-christianisme.

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...

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,...

Louis Massignon et ses contemporains

Autor: Jacques Keryell

Número de Páginas: 398

Imagery Techniques in Modern Jewish Mysticism

Autor: Daniel Reiser

Número de Páginas: 462

This book analyzes and describes the development and aspects of imagery techniques, a primary mode of mystical experience, in twentieth century Jewish mysticism. These techniques, in contrast to linguistic techniques in medieval Kabbalah and in contrast to early Hasidism, have all the characteristics of a full screenplay, a long and complicated plot woven together from many scenes, a kind of a feature film. Research on this development and nature of the imagery experience is carried out through comparison to similar developments in philosophy and psychology and is fruitfully contextualized within broader trends of western and eastern mysticism.

On Dreams and the East

Autor: C. G. Jung , Heinrich Zimmer

Número de Páginas: 352

Jung’s landmark seminar on the symbolism of yoga and its applications to dream analysis In the summer of 1933, C. G. Jung conducted a seminar in Berlin attended by a large audience of some 150 people, including several Jewish Jungians who would soon leave Germany. Hitler had begun consolidating his position as dictator and these students were distressed at Jung’s recent decision to accept the presidency of a German professional psychotherapy society that was rapidly becoming Nazified and purged of Jews. On Dreams and the East makes these seminar sessions widely available for the first time, offering tantalizing insights into Jung’s evolving understanding of yoga and the realization of the self. The seminar commences with a presentation on the psychology of yoga by noted Indologist and linguist Heinrich Zimmer, whose collaboration in these talks reflects Jung’s growing engagement with the Hindu tradition, particularly Tantric yoga. Jung analyzes a series of dreams of a middle-aged male patient, focusing on mandalas and the centering process. He reflects on related motifs in alchemical symbolism, Navaho healing drawings, Mithraism, baptism symbolism, the foundation of Rome,...

Suhrawardi and the School of Illumination

Autor: Mehdi Amin Razavi Aminrazavi

Número de Páginas: 205

Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi, also known as Shaikh al-ishraq or the Master of Illumination, lived in the sixth century AH / twelfth century CE. His thoughts form a consistent and coherent philosophical system, and a close study of his writings in Persian reveals a theory of knowledge generally called 'Knowledge by Presence'. The elaborate web of myth and symbolism in Suhrawardi's philosophy articulates his theory of knowledge, an important subject in the ishraqi school of thought. Suhrawardi, who claims first to have discovered the truth and then embarked on a path to find the rational basis of his experiential wisdom, represents a thinker who tried to reconcile rational discourse and inner purification.

The Future of the Ancient World

Autor: Jeremy Naydler

Número de Páginas: 285

The sacred consciousness that prevailed in antiquity is the key to unlocking our future • Shows how scientific consciousness, which gives primacy to the sense of sight, estranged us from the participatory spiritual consciousness of antiquity • Explores the vital importance of the imagination in reconnecting us to the spirit world The Future of the Ancient World sheds new light on the evolution of consciousness from antiquity to modern times. The twelve essays in this book examine developments in human consciousness over the past five thousand years that most history books do not touch. In ancient times, human beings were finely attuned to the invisible world of the gods, spirits, and ancestors. Today, by contrast, our modern scientific consciousness regards what is physically imperceptible as unreal. Our experience of the natural world has shifted from an awareness of the divine presence animating all things to the mere scientific analyses of physical attributes, a deadened mode of awareness that relies on our ability to believe only in what we can see. In these richly illustrated and wide-ranging essays that span the cultures of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and...

Divination

Autor: Patrick Curry

Número de Páginas: 347

Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspectives of diviners as well as scholars of divination; several contributors are both. This book explores philosophical issues such as the nature of divinatory intelligence, the relationship between divinatory and metaphorical truth, the primacy of ontology over epistemology, the importance of reflexivity in scholarly studies of divination, and astrology as the principal Western form of divination. The ethnographic and historical examples range from contemporary Nigeria, urban Cuba, Mayan Guatemala and the shamanic cultures of the circumpolar Arctic to classical Greece and ancient Judea.

Swimming in the Sacred

Autor: Rachel Harris

Número de Páginas: 290

WISDOM FROM THE WOMEN HEALERS OF THE PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND The use of entheogens, or psychedelics, is out of the closet today. LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, and other medicines once associated only with the counterculture are now being legally studied for their healing properties. But as Rachel Harris shows, the underground use and study of psychedelics by women dates back to the Eleusinian Mysteries of ancient Greece. Harris interviews the modern women elders carrying on this tradition to gather their hard-won wisdom of experience. Any reader interested in inspiration, healing, and enlightenment will find here a wonder-filled narrative packed with provocative and perhaps life-changing insight.

Debates on Islam and Knowledge in Malaysia and Egypt

Autor: Mona Abaza

Número de Páginas: 318

This book is a comparative study of the sociological field in two different Muslim societies: Malaysia and Egypt. It analyses the process of the production of 'knowledge' through the example of the modern 'Islamization of knowledge debate' and local empirical variations.

L'utopie maçonnique - Améliorer l'homme et la société

Autor: Céline Bryon-portet , Daniel Keller

Número de Páginas: 360

Améliorer l'homme et la société La franc-maçonnerie s'efforce d'"améliorer l'homme et la société" et de "rassembler ce qui est épars". Se voulant le Centre de l'Union, elle oeuvre "au progrès de l'humanité" en faisant advenir "ordo ab chao", ainsi que le déclarent ses rituels. Chimère pour les uns... Rêve réalisable pour les autres... Cet ouvrage explore les multiples facettes de l'utopie maçonnique. Porteuse d'un esprit de reliance et d'une volonté de réenchantement, celle-ci propose tout à la fois un ailleurs structuré par un imaginaire symbolique, censé transformer le regard puis le comportement de l'initié . et un prolongement hors du huis clos de l'atelier, afin que se diffusent ses valeurs et que se déploie son projet de fraternité universelle. Entre contemplation et action, progressivité initiatique et progressisme social, l'idéal incarné de l'Ordre prend naissance dans l'espace-temps sacré de la loge, tout en étant destiné à s'ancrer dans le monde profane pour participer aux mouvements de l'Histoire. Chaque franc-maçon, qu'il privilégie la construction spirituelle de son Temple intérieur ou s'engage dans un combat humaniste contribue à...

Visualizing Sufism

Número de Páginas: 324

Visualizing Sufism approaches the question of the presence of graphic materials in Islamic mystical literature from a broad and comprehensive perspective. To this goal, an international group of specialists in the field worked on largely manuscript and unpublished sources with the aim of analyzing the use of visual elements in the works of some key figures of Islamic mysticism—Ibn al-ʿArabī, Aḥmad al-Būnī, Saʿd al-Dīn Ḥamūyeh, al-Shaʿrānī—, and in intellectual networks—Ḥurūfiyya and Bektashiyya, Shīrīn Maghribī and his connections. The result is the most extensive collection of specimens of Sufi graphic materials ever brought together and discussed in a single volume. By virtue of the object of study investigated in the chapters of this book, in addition to the history of Sufism, questions are raised that touch upon numerous areas in the field of Islamic Studies, including intellectual history, codicology, and art history. Contributors Elizabeth R. Alexandrin, Noah Gardiner, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Evyn Kropf, Giovanni Maria Martini, Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, and Sophie Tyser.

Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe

Autor: Donato Verardi

Número de Páginas: 155

Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy. Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe. Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging...

Collected Writings of Giles Clark

Autor: Judith Pickering , Geoffrey Samuel

Número de Páginas: 362

This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947–2019), whose original clinical theory constitutes a major contribution to the areas of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy. Clark’s work influenced generations of analytical psychologists, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trainees in England, Australia and elsewhere. His oeuvre covers important themes such as psychoanalysis as a deeply relational, mutually transformative and intersubjective endeavor; how, as wounded healers, analysts learn the art of recycling their own madness so as better to assist their patients; the clinical treatment of borderline and narcissistic disturbances and personality disorders; and psychosomatic issues as manifest and experienced in transference and countertransference relations in the analytic field. The book also explores the relevance of Spinoza, Santayana, Jung and German Romantic philosophers to analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, not merely in historical or theoretical terms but as a vital resource to guide clinical practice as demonstrated through a series of compelling case studies. The Collected Writings of...

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz

Autor: Laleen Jayamanne

Número de Páginas: 108

Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick and Ruiz explores the poetic thinking of these master filmmakers. It examines theoretical ideas, including Maori anthropology of the gift and Sufi philosophy of the image, to conceive film as abundant gift. Elaborating on how this gift may be received, this book imagines film as our indispensable mentor - a wild mentor who teaches us how to think with moving images by learning to perceive evanescent forms that simply appear and disappear.

Lux in Tenebris

Número de Páginas: 516

Lux in Tenebris is a collection of eighteen original interdisciplinary essays that address aspects of the verbal and visual symbolism in the works of significant figures in the history of Western Esotericism, covering such themes as alchemy, magic, kabbalah, angels, occult philosophy, Platonism, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy. Part I: Middle Ages & Early Modernity ranges from Gikatilla, Ficino, Camillo, Agrippa, Weigel, Böhme, Yvon, and Swedenborg, to celestial divination in Russia. Part II: Modernity & Postmodernity moves from occultist thinkers Schwaller de Lubicz and Evola to esotericism in literature, art, and cinema, in the works of Colquhoun, Degouve de Nuncques, Bruskin, Doitschinoff, and Pérez-Reverte, with an essay on esoteric theories of colour. Contributors are: Michael J.B. Allen, Susanna Åkerman, Lina Bolzoni, Aaron Cheak, Robert Collis, Francesca M. Crasta, Per Faxneld, Laura Follesa, Victoria Ferentinou, Joshua Gentzke, Joscelyn Godwin, Hans Thomas Hakl, Theodor Harmsen, Elke Morlok, Noel Putnik, Jonathan Schorsch, György Szönyi, Carsten Wilke, and Thomas Willard.

Upon Entropy

Autor: Riccardo M. Villa

Número de Páginas: 256

In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the computer opened up a stage of progress in which knowledge has become a commodity. Modernity and postmodernity appear as two stages of a process resulting from the conflict of science and narrative. As science attempts to distance itself from narrative, it must create its own legitimacy. This paper takes up this challenge with a focus on the question of imagery. The image is precisely what modern science seeks to free itself from in its quest for absolute transparency. This transparency is examined from the perspective of architecture, drawing on arguments from philosophy, quantum mechanics, theology and information theory. Natural science in the context of postmodernism Quantum mechanics and information theory New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series

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.

The Archetypal Artist

Autor: Mary Antonia Wood

Número de Páginas: 187

In this thoughtful and revelatory book, Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art, creativity, and what Jung called the "creative spirit" in order to illuminate how artists can truly understand what it means to be a creator. By bringing together insights on creativity from some of depth psychology’s most iconic thinkers, such as C.G. Jung, James Hillman, and Joseph Campbell, as well as featuring a selection of creators who have been influenced by these ideas, such as Martha Graham, Mary Oliver, Stanley Kunitz, and Ursula K. Le Guin, this book explores archetypal thought and the role of the artist in society. This unique approach emphasizes the foundational need to understand and work with the unconscious forces that underpin a creative calling, deepening our understanding of the transformational power of creativity, and the vital role of the artist in the modern world. Acting as a touchstone for inquiries into the nature of creativity, and of the soul, this enlightening book is perfect for artists and creators of all types, as well as Jungian analysts and therapists, and academics interested in the arts, humanities, and depth psychology.

World of Image in Islamic Philosophy

Autor: Van Lit L. W. C. Van Lit

Número de Páginas: 206

One of the most controversial issues that divided Islamic philosophers and theologians during the Middle Ages was whether human beings would have a spiritual or bodily existence after death. The idea of a world of image was conceived as a solution, suggesting that there exists a world of non-physical (imagined) bodies, beyond our earthly existence. This world may be reached in sleep, in meditation or after death.From the embryonic conception by Ibn Sina, to the radical rethinking by Suhrawardi and Shahrazuri into a sophisticated system, L. W. C. van Lit unravels the history of this idea. Using a distant reading approach for measuring the transmission, he further shows how the idea remained relevant for Muslim thinkers through the centuries, up until today.

Las enseñanzas secretas de las plantas

Autor: Stephen Harrod Buhner

Número de Páginas: 350

Revela el uso de la percepción directa en la comprensión de la naturaleza, las plantas medicinales, y la sanación de las enfermedades humanas • Explora las técnicas utilizadas por los pueblos aborígenes y occidentales para aprender directamente de las propias plantas, incluidas las técnicas de Henry David Thoreau, Goethe, y Masanobu Fukuoka, autor de The One Straw Revolution [La revolución de una brizna de paja] La humanidad no puede sobrevivir sin las propiedades nutricionales y medicinales de las plantas. Se ha calculado que el número de especies vegetales que hay en nuestro planeta oscila alrededor de 400.000, y muchas de estas especies son aún desconocidas para la humanidad. Si bien los botanistas occidentales sólo han identificado y clasificado una pequeña fracción de ese total, se puede afirmar con seguridad que muchas de las plantas desconocidas en Occidente son conocidas para los pueblos aborígenes que viven en los entornos naturales de esas plantas. Todos los pueblos antiguos y aborígenes afirman que sus conocimientos sobre remedios botánicos provienen de las propias plantas y no de la experimentación a través de pruebas y errores. Un dato menos...

Hildegard von Bingen y la tradicion visionaria de Occidente

Autor: Victoria Cirlot

Número de Páginas: 282

Las visiones de Hildegard von Bingen despliegan un riquísimo universo simbólico, que es el objeto de estudio de este libro. A través de diversas aproximaciones se trata de comprender el fenómeno visionario, ya como una experiencia extraordinaria, ya como parte integrante del proceso creador. La floración de las imágenes, su descripción y plasmación plástica es abordada a partir de comparaciones que ofrecen contrapuntos al caso de esta mística renana del siglo XII, tales como el Apocalipsis de Juan de Patmos, los espirituales del Oriente de luz estudiados por el iranólogo y filósofo Herny Corbin, o la obra del artista surrealista Max Ernst. La imaginación creadora de Hildegard von Bingen aparece como el origen de una tradición visionaria de Occidente, sagrada y secularizada, cuya estética se fundamenta en el valor de las imágenes.

Angels of Desire

Autor: Jay Johnston

Número de Páginas: 336

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.

Traversing the Heart

Autor: Richard Kearney , Eileen Rizo-patron

Número de Páginas: 536

The key wager of Traversing the Heart - Journeys of the Inter-religious Imagination is that a spiritual imaginary operating at the level of metaphor, narrative, symbol and epiphany can traverse the borders of dogma and ideology and open genuine conversations between wisdom traditions. Like every hermeneutics of the heart, this journey begins to unfold in a concrete space and time: the interreligious conference at Bangalore in June 2007. While this collection does not claim to cover the religious traditions of all continents, its concluding essay on transculturation in Andean-Christian art highlights the importance of the North-South dialogue as a necessary supplement to the East-West one largely addressed in the book. As a call to future journeys and dialogue, this volume aims to communicate the one seminal lesson learned during the India conference: that in our third millennium, religions will be inter-religious or they will not be at peace.

Embodied Imaginations

Autor: Chidambaram Ramesh

Número de Páginas: 266

The science behind the writers’ experience of characters developing their own will and taking objective forms. Many writers have the experience that their characters have evolved their own personalities. They start to tell their own stories, and sometimes they could even rebel against the author’s ideas for them and change the course of the whole plot. That is not all, though. Sometimes, literary characters assume objective appearances which are visible not just to the creators, but also to others and manifesting in the real world. These experiences raise several interesting philosophical and scientific questions. Have the writers unwittingly created quasi-conscious entities by the power of their minds? Can thoughts manifest as something tangible that can be seen, heard, or even touched? How genuine are the contents of the mind? Embodied Imaginations explores these questions, highlighting the results of an investigation on this fascinating topic, stemming from personal anecdotes of many writers. Providing scientific evidence for the existences of these mental constructs, the goal is to collect robust and reliable building blocks that may help to deconstruct perceptions and...

Le cinéma d'Abbas Kiarostami

Autor: Sussan Shams

Número de Páginas: 212

La Palme d'Or attribuée au Festival de Cannes, en 1997, à Abbas Kiarostami pour le Goût de la cerise fut la consécration de la carrière d'un cinéaste dont l'oeuvre avait déjà été récompensée dans le monde entier. Avec son regard d'Orientale, l'auteur nous propose un voyage à l'intérieur d'un cinéma enraciné dans la culture d'origine de ce cinéaste iranien dont l'esthétique suscite de nombreuses interrogations chez le spectateur occidental.

Des profondeurs de l'être

Autor: Armelle Dutruc

Número de Páginas: 506

Marie-Magdeleine Davy (19031998) était philosophe, écrivain et maître de recherche au CNRS. Profondément engagée dans la vie intellectuelle de son époque, elle confia ses plus riches pensées à d’innombrables écrits publiés pendant plus d’un demi-siècle. On y croise les figures essentielles de sa méditation : Nicolas Berdiaev, Carl Gustav Jung, Louis Massignon, Gabriel Marcel, Roger Godel, Henry Corbin, Simone Weil, Henri Le Saux, et tant d’autres. Esprit indépendant et non conventionnel, éternelle voyageuse en quête de l’Absolu, Marie-Magdeleine Davy ne cessa d’affirmer que la voie conduisant à l’intériorité est celle du silence qui mène au cœur de toute chose, de soi-même et de l’univers : « Telle est ma conviction, écrit-elle, après avoir beaucoup lu, médité et conversé avec des hommes et des femmes en Extrême-Orient, en Orient et en Occident. C’est donc au sein de la plénitude du silence que des hommes peuvent ensuite se retrouver, se comprendre et s’aimer ». Pour beaucoup d’Européens, Marie-Magdeleine Davy aura été un témoin de la dimension de profondeur que tout être porte en lui, une preuve vivante de cet aspect autre de ...

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...

The Sacred History

Autor: Jonathan Black

Número de Páginas: 629

From the bestselling author of The Secret History of the World, an exploration of the mystical forces that shape and protect us The Sacred History is an account of the workings of the supernatural in history. It tells the epic story of angels, from Creation, to Evolution through to the operations of the supernatural in the modern world. This tale of how people and peoples have been helped by angels and other angelic beings is woven into a spellbinding narrative that brings together Krishna, Moses, Buddha, Elijah, Mary and Jesus, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, the angels who helped Hungarian Jews persecuted by the Nazis, and stories from African, Native American and Celtic traditions. Told from the spiritual point of view, The Sacred History relates every betrayal, every change of heart, every twist and turn, everything that looks like a coincidence, every portent, every clue, every defeat, every rescue moments before the prison door clangs shut. This is the angelic version of events.

La ciudad y la razón fronteriza: la filosofía de Eugenio Trías

Autor: Rivera Garcia, Antonio

Número de Páginas: 251

La obra de Eugenio Trías ha supuesto una renovación en el conocimiento de la Filosofía de nuestro país y su labor como docente universitario es importante para comprender los fundamentos de la misma. Con este libro, donde han participado varios autores, no se pretender hacer un análisis exhaustivo de su obra sino ofrecer una visión panorámica de su pensamiento. Esta propuesta se ajusta a los cuatro ámbitos principales en los que se ha forjado su filosofía: el esclarecimiento del concepto de razón fronteriza, la ética y la reflexión sobre la condición humana, la filosofía de la religión y la estética, y la teoría de las artes. Estos temas están presentados y analizados con el ánimo de despertar el interés sobre la filosofía de Trías y conocer sus aportaciones, sin que con ello se pretenda suplir el provecho intelectual de este filósofo, sino más bien conducir al lector hacia su obra.

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...

Divination

Autor: Dr Patrick Curry

Número de Páginas: 308

Divination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A universal human practice, it has received surprisingly little academic attention. This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspectives of diviners as well as scholars of divination; several contributors are both. This book explores philosophical issues such as the nature of divinatory intelligence, the relationship between divinatory and metaphorical truth, the primacy of ontology over epistemology, the importance of reflexivity in scholarly studies of divination, and astrology as the principal Western form of divination. The ethnographic and historical examples range from contemporary Nigeria, urban Cuba, Mayan Guatemala and the shamanic cultures of the circumpolar Arctic to classical Greece and ancient Judea.

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