Libros a Descargar Gratis

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...

Louis Massignon et ses contemporains

Autor: Jacques Keryell

Número de Páginas: 398

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,...

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.

Colour, Art and Empire

Autor: Natasha Eaton

Número de Páginas: 553

Colour, Art and Empire explores the entanglements of visual culture, enchanted technologies, waste, revolution, resistance and otherness. The materiality of colour offers a critical and timely force-field for approaching afresh debates on colonialism. This book analyses the formation of colour and politics as qualitative overspill. Colour can be viewed both as central and supplemental to early photography, the totem, alchemy, tantra and mysticism. From the eighteenth-century Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to Rabindranath Tagore and Gandhi, to 1970s Bollywood, colour makes us adjust our take on the politics of the human sensorium as defamiliarising and disorienting. The four chapters conjecture how European, Indian and Papua New Guinean artists, writers, scientists, activists, anthropologists or their subjects sought to negotiate the highly problematic stasis of colour in the repainting of modernity. Specifically, the thesis of this book traces Europeans' admiration and emulation of what they termed 'Indian colour' to its gradual denigration and the emergence of a 'space of exception'. This space of exception pitted industrial colours against the colonial desire for a massive...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Esotérisme, gnoses & imaginaire symbolique

Autor: Antoine Faivre

Número de Páginas: 1466

Ne en 1934, diplome de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (1965), Docteur es-Lettres (1969), Antoine Faivre a ete Professeur de Langue et Litterature allemandes a l'Universite de Bordeaux III (de 1972 a 1985), puis a l'Universite de Rouen (de 1985 a 1991). Depuis 1969, A. Faivre dirige un seminaire a l'Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes (Section des Sciences Religieuses, Sorbonne), d'abord en tant que Charge de conferences (1967-1979), puis en tant que Directeur d'Etudes (il est titulaire de la Chaire Histoire des Courants esoteriques et mystiques dans l'Europe moderne et contemporaine, depuis 1979). Le present recueil vient tout naturellement rendre hommage au chercheur, qui a tant apporte a l'histoire critique de cette nouvelle specialite, mais aussi temoigner de la vitalite de celle-ci. Nombre de ses eleves, collegues et amis ont ainsi souhaite etre associes a cet hommage en lui offrant les quelque soixante et un articles (rediges en trois langues: francais, anglais et allemand) qui composent ce volume. Cinq parties principales regroupent les themes suivants: histoire de l'alchimie. Hermetisme. Kabbale (Partie I) ; Romantisme allemand. Naturphilosophie. Theosophie chretienne...

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...

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

Autor: Laleen Jayamanne

Número de Páginas: 180

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, expressed in several of their key films. 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.

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...

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...

Religion as Metaphor

Autor: David Tacey

Número de Páginas: 385

Biblical stories are metaphorical. They may have been accepted as factual hundreds of years ago, but today they cannot be taken literally. Some students in religious schools even recoil from the "fairy tales" of religion, believing them to be mockeries of their intelligence. David Tacey argues that biblical language should not be read as history, and it was never intended as literal description. At best it is metaphorical, but he does not deny these stories have spiritual meaning. Religion as Metaphor argues that despite what tradition tells us, if we "believe" religious language, we miss religion's spiritual meaning. Tacey argues that religious language was not designed to be historical reporting, but rather to resonate in the soul and direct us toward transcendent realities. Its impact was intended to be closer to poetry than theology. The book uses specific examples to make its case: Jesus, the Virgin Birth, the Kingdom of God, the Apocalypse, Satan, and the Resurrection. Tacey shows that, with the aid of contemporary thought and depth psychology, we can re-read religious stories as metaphors of the spirit and the interior life. Moving beyond literal thinking will save religion ...

Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures

Autor: Karima Laachir , Saeed Talajooy

Número de Páginas: 300

This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of 'cultural resistance' to describe the way culture and cultural creations are used to resist or even change the dominant political, social, economic, and cultural discourses and structures either consciously or unconsciously. The contributors do not claim that these cultural products constitute organized resistance movements, but rather that they reflect instances of defiance that stem from their peculiar contexts. If culture can be used to consolidate and perpetuate power relations in societies, it can also be used as the site of resistance to oppression in its various forms: gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality, subverting existing dominant social and political hegemonies in the Middle East.

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.

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.

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...

Theatre and the Threshold of Death

Autor: Kathleen Gough

Número de Páginas: 193

On the eve of a global pandemic, Kathleen Gough, a theatre professor, becomes immersed in the lives of five artist-mystics, each of whom is a pioneer in her field: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the first known musical composer; Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), the first modern actor in the Western world; Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, activist, and mystic, whom Albert Camus called “the only great spirit of our time”; Marina Abramovic (b. 1946), “the grandmother of performance art”; and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the first known (and belatedly acknowledged) abstract painter. Each time Gough crosses a threshold into their world, she is compelled to attend courses, seminars and workshops that are simultaneously about dying and healing. Curious to learn more about the relationships between art practice, dying, and healing, Gough imagines the five artists as wisdom teachers in a mystery school. In a series of eight lectures, she turns to performance theory to provide a framework for engaging with the unknown world. In Theatre and the Threshold of Death, Gough makes a persuasive argument for the world-making power of relational thinking in our increasingly polarized age.

From Modernity to Cosmodernity

Autor: Basarab Nicolescu

Número de Páginas: 284

Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society. The quantum, biological, and information revolutions of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries should have thoroughly changed our view of reality, yet the old viewpoint based on classical science remains dominant, reinforcing a notion of a rational, mechanistic world that allows for endless progress. In practice, this view has promoted much violence among humans. Basarab Nicolescu heralds a new era, cosmodernity, founded on a contemporary vision of the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society. Here, reality is plastic and its people are active participants in the cosmos, and the world is simultaneously knowable and unknowable. Ultimately, every human recognizes his or her face in the face of every other human being, independent of his or her particular religious or philosophical beliefs. Nicolescu notes a new spirituality free of dogmas and looks at quantum physics, literature, theater, and art to reveal the emergence of a newer, cosmodern consciousness.

Religion and Society in Qajar Iran

Autor: Robert Gleave

Número de Páginas: 582

Gleave brings together studies by experts in the area of religion in nineteenth-century Iran in order to present new insights into Qajar religion, political and cultural history. Key topics covered include the relationship between religion and the state, the importance of archival materials for the study of religion, the developments of Qajar religious thought, the position of religious minorities in Qajar Iran, the relationship between religion and Qajar culture, and the centrality of Shi'ite hierarchy and the state.

Religion after Religion

Autor: Steven M. Wasserstrom

Número de Páginas: 381

By the end of World War II, religion appeared to be on the decline throughout the United States and Europe. Recent world events had cast doubt on the relevance of religious belief, and modernizing trends made religious rituals look out of place. It was in this atmosphere that the careers of Scholem, Eliade, and Corbin--the twentieth century's legendary scholars in the respective fields of Judaism, History of Religions, and Islam--converged and ultimately revolutionized how people thought about religion. Between 1949 and 1978, all three lectured to Carl Jung's famous Eranos circle in Ascona, Switzerland, where each in his own way came to identify the symbolism of mystical experience as a central element of his monotheistic tradition. In this, the first book ever to compare the paths taken by these thinkers, Steven Wasserstrom explores how they overturned traditional approaches to studying religion by de-emphasizing law, ritual, and social history and by extolling the role of myth and mysticism. The most controversial aspect of their theory of religion, Wasserstrom argues, is that it minimized the binding character of moral law associated with monotheism. The author focuses on the...

Strange Dimensions

Autor: Jack Hunter

Número de Páginas: 442

It is from the paranormal's multifaceted nature that the title of this book takes its meaning. Throughout its pages we encounter, time and again, talk of a wide variety of dimensions, levels and layers, from social, cultural, psychological and physiological dimensions, to spiritual, mythic, narrative, symbolic and experiential dimensions, and onwards to other worlds, planes of existence and realms of consciousness. The paranormal is, by its very nature, multidimensional. ""Once again, Jack Hunter takes us down the proverbial rabbit hole, here with the grace, nuance and sheer intelligence of a gifted team of essayists, each working in her or his own way toward new theories of history, consciousness, spirit, the imagination, the parapsychological, and the psychedelic. Another clear sign that there is high hope in high strangeness, and that we are entering a new era of thinking about religion, about mind, about us."" -- Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred.

Energetic Herbalism

Autor: Kat Maier

Número de Páginas: 393

In this indispensable new resource both for the home apothecary and clinical practitioners, a celebrated herbalist brings alive the elemental relationships among traditional healing practices, ecological stewardship, and essential plant medicines. By honoring ancient wisdom and presenting it in an innovative way, Energetic Herbalism is a profound and practical guide to family and community care for those seeking to move beyond symptom relief and into a truly holistic framework of health. Throughout, author Kat Maier invites readers to explore their personal relationships with plants and their environs as they discover diverse models of healing. Inside Energetic Herbalism, you’ll find: The elements and patterns of Ayurvedic doshas for greater self-awareness as well as positive lifestyle choices A deep appreciation of the wisdom of indigenous peoples, which is the foundation of sacred plant traditions The relationship of well-being to the seasons through the brilliant lens of Chinese Five Element Theory, and how our emotional health is beautifully expressed through the Elements The roots and evolution of Vitalism, the traditional Western system of energetic medicine How to assess...

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

The Problem of Disenchantment

Autor: Egil Asprem

Número de Páginas: 662

Challenges the conventional view of a “disenchanted” and secular modernity, and recovers the complex relation that exists between science, religion, and esotericism in the modern world. Max Weber famously characterized the ongoing process of intellectualization and rationalization that separates the natural world from the divine (by excluding magic and value from the realm of science, and reason and fact from the realm of religion) as the “disenchantment of the world.” Egil Asprem argues for a conceptual shift in how we view this key narrative of modernity. Instead of a sociohistorical process of disenchantment that produces increasingly rational minds, Asprem maintains that the continued presence of “magic” and “enchantment” in people’s everyday experience of the world created an intellectual problem for those few who were socialized to believe that nature should contain no such incalculable mysteries. Drawing on a wide range of early twentieth-century primary sources from theoretical physics, occultism, embryology, radioactivity, psychical research, and other fields, Asprem casts the intellectual life of high modernity as a synchronic struggle across conspicuously...

Ceilings and Dreams

Autor: Paul Emmons , Federica Goffi , Jodi La Coe

Número de Páginas: 393

Where is the space for dreaming in the twenty-first century? Lofty thoughts, like dreams, are born and live overhead, just as they have been represented in Renaissance paintings and modern cartoons. Ceilings are often repositories of stories, events and otherwise invisible oneiric narratives. Yet environments that inspire innovative thinking are dwindling as our world confronts enormous challenges, and almost all of our thinking, debating and decision-making takes place under endless ceiling grids. Quantitative research establishes that spaces with taller ceilings elicit broader, more creative thoughts. Today, ceilings are usually squat conduits of technology: they have become the blind spot of modern architecture. The twenty essays in this book look across cultures, places and ceilings over time to discover their potential to uplift the human spirit. Not just one building element among many, the ceiling is a key to unlock the architectural imagination. Ceilings and Dreams aims to correct this blind spot and encourages architects and designers, researchers and students, to look up through writings organized into three expansive categories: reveries, suspensions and inversions. The ...

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.

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.

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.

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.