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Mystical Anthropology
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Author : John Arblaster
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-10
Mystical Anthropology written by John Arblaster and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Religion categories.
The question of the ‘structure’ of the human person is central to many mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This book focuses on the specific anthropology of a series of key authors in the mystical tradition in the medieval and early modern Low Countries. Their view is fundamentally different from the anthropology that has commonly been accepted since the rise of Modernity. This book explores the most important mystical authors and texts from the Low Countries including: William of Saint-Thierry, Hadewijch, Pseudo-Hadewijch, John of Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen, Hendrik Herp, and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons. The most important aspects of mystical anthropology are discussed: the spiritual nature of the soul, the inner-most being of the soul, the faculties, the senses, and crucial metaphors which were used to explain the relationship of God and the human person. Two contributions explicitly connect the anthropology of the mystics to contemporary thought. This book offers a solid and yet accessible overview for those interested in theology, philosophy, history, and medieval literature.
Mystical Anthropology
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Author : Ineke Cornet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Mystical Anthropology written by Ineke Cornet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Anthropology of religion categories.
Concepts of the Divine that emerge in mystical testimonies have often been studied. Seldom has the human person, the common denominator in all mystical testimonies, been given due attention. Nevertheless, questions regarding universal elements in mystical experiences and the role of particular theological traditions in current debates on mysticism cannot be addressed without examining the underlying concepts of the human person and the relation to the divine in mystical texts. The complexity and diversity of mystical texts call for an approach that is in the first place critical-hermeneutical and takes all elements, be they particular or universal, into account. It also calls for an interdisciplinary and cross-religious perspective in which the expertise from various disciplines and different mystical traditions is combined. This volume brings different anthropological concepts to the fore through an interdisciplinary study of texts from two religious traditions, the sixteenth-century Arnhem Mystical Sermons (from the Christian tradition) and the twentieth-century Sri Aurobindo Gose (from the Hindu tradition).
Anthropology And Mysticism In The Making Of Initiation
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Author : Andy Hilton
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2023-09-14
Anthropology And Mysticism In The Making Of Initiation written by Andy Hilton and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-14 with Social Science categories.
By the 1980s, interest in initiation was at its peak; it was being employed both theoretically and practically, in gender politics and humanistic therapy. How did that come to be, how should we understand 'initiation', and what can be its future? This wide-ranging book looks at the history, evolution and contemporary idea of initiation. It traces origins in the ancient Mysteries and early Christian texts, through Renaissance rediscoveries to admission in Freemasonry and anthropological investigations in French Canada and British Australia. It introduces the 'initiation discourse', as something that was constructed through centuries of translations and nineteenth century human science leading to the making of the modern concept. It argues for a subject, 'initiation studies', that effectively secularised the eighteenth-century rites of admission to produce the twentieth-century rites of passage. And it details, as compensation for this hollowing out of the mystery, the study of shaman 'spirit-workers', the idea of death and rebirth, and the later sacralisation of the liminal in adolescent/adult initiation. Finally, a contemporary revision is explored that incorporates neglected aspects like depth psychology and education for an idea of youth as a life-stage. And while ritual is now deemphasised, the religious dimension is reaffirmed with a critical analysis of cosmic consciousness, the enduring Great Mystery.
Mystical Anthropology
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Author : Johnny Lovewisdom
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-04-08
Mystical Anthropology written by Johnny Lovewisdom and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Science categories.
STARTING WITH THE ANCIENT HYPERBOREANS, THRU MILLIONS OF YEARS, WE SURVEY THE LIFE AND IDEALS OF PRE-HISTORIC CULTURES, LEADING TO OUR PREPARATION FOR A MYSTICAL RECURRENCE OF THE SATYA YUGA, OR THE NEW GOLDEN AGE, FOSTERED BY MASTER PARADISIANS OF A HIGH HEAVENLY HIERARCHY. CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION TO HYPERBOREAN CULTURE AND THEIR SUN GOD. Seven Eternities ago the Sweat-Born came forth from the First Heaven to inhabit the earth with huge vaporous bodies in the earliest Hyperborean Race nourishing from the air, which in time descended into the frugivorous, required a living water nourishment from juicy fruits. Modern misconceptions as to seeds and nuts which give densest body, drugging with pesticides for Fruit-eater's "High," early historians identification of Hyperboreans and original source of Sun Gods. CHAPTER II: THE ANCIENT EASTERN LEGENDS OF PARADISIAN ORIGINS. Buddhist Concepts of how self- luminous bodies became denser partaking of earth-born fruits of earth, till finally eating rice, men became passionate and evil; Comparison with Bible Genesis when man was cast out of Eden for bread-eating; Pre-Adamite Man that lived in Altai or "Heavenly Mts.," Shambhala, Paradise of Chinese Legends, P'eng lai, Taoist Hygiene School abstains from 5 grains, eats jujubes fruit, or breath, to become Immortals, Lemurians and 7 Root Races, Soma or Juicy Fruit in Hindu and Zend legend, Science on recent origin of grains, and Map. CHAPTER III: THE HEBRAIC ORIGIN OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE. Shamash, the Sun God of Babylonian Legend, and part played in Biblic Genesis, the Legend of Moses' birth and Great Flood precisely described in Chaldean Records, Josephus explains Genesis, Adam and Eve, Cain, Seth from nonbiblic sources, Gnostics were Essenes, Ezra writes Mosaic Books. CHAPTER IV: DIETETIC VIOLATIONS THAT GAVE RACIAL TRAITS TO PREHISTORIC PAMIRS, TARIM BASIN, SUMERIA, CHALDEA FROM ATLANTIS. Anthropology and Ethnology, Iridology gives color index to pathology in the eyes and its relation to skin and hair; how skin color is developed by ethnic traits in diet; negroes become white on raw food; clabber as living substance responsible for white race; intestinal purity and alkalinity gives clean skin color; Pamirs described as original Eden; Chinese corroboration about Eden; Sumeria, fish-born Semiramis, and Atlantis. CHAPTER V: THE EGYPTIAN INITIATION INTO ATLANTEAN MYSTERIES, THEIR SACRED HIERATIC LANGUAGE AND TRAITS. Historic Greek descriptions of Atlantis, Early Egyptians abstain from grains and flesh, Moses copies Pork and unclean meat doctrine from Egypt, Excess fat, avocados, etc. hard on liver, Lactobacillus, healing of menstruation and seminal losses, the Mysteries of Egyptian Initiation, Hermes, Atlantian writings. CHAPTER VI: ANCIENT LEGENDARY HISTORY OF THE KRISHNA CULT, AND ARYAN CULTURAL BENEFICIENCE FROM BUDDHA. What Scriptures confirm as to the black man Krishna who creates rivers of blood slaughtering enemies by the hundred thousands, made over 4 women pregnant every night of his life, having 16,108 wives, including female gorilla, and other jungle legends unwittingly espoused by Yoga much like O.T. Bible's gory prophets. Buddha's Doctrine of Compassion for all beings, abstinence from killing and chaste ideals, forsaking worldly desires, Teachings. CHAPTER VIII: THE FIRST PEOPLE, THE LEMURIANS, THE GOBI CIVILIZATION, ANTHROPOGENESIS OF MODERN SCIENCE AND MYSTICAL LEGENDS ABOUT SHAMBHALA. After Eternal or First Land of Hyperborea, Lemuria, sin and taking of life came into being. Seed-eating gave rise to sexualism, and perversions giving bestial forms to human fetus development. Soviet science as to Lemuria, Osborn and Doreal Research about Gobi Civilization, Tibetan Lama's views and Prophecy of Shambhala in Ecuador.
Mystical Anthropology
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Author : John Arblaster
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2016-11-10
Mystical Anthropology written by John Arblaster and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Religion categories.
The question of the ‘structure’ of the human person is central to many mystical authors in the Christian tradition. This book focuses on the specific anthropology of a series of key authors in the mystical tradition in the medieval and early modern Low Countries. Their view is fundamentally different from the anthropology that has commonly been accepted since the rise of Modernity. This book explores the most important mystical authors and texts from the Low Countries including: William of Saint-Thierry, Hadewijch, Pseudo-Hadewijch, John of Ruusbroec, Jan van Leeuwen, Hendrik Herp, and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons. The most important aspects of mystical anthropology are discussed: the spiritual nature of the soul, the inner-most being of the soul, the faculties, the senses, and crucial metaphors which were used to explain the relationship of God and the human person. Two contributions explicitly connect the anthropology of the mystics to contemporary thought. This book offers a solid and yet accessible overview for those interested in theology, philosophy, history, and medieval literature.
The Anthropology Of Magic
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Author : Susan Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-28
The Anthropology Of Magic written by Susan Greenwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-28 with Social Science categories.
Magic is arguably the least understood subject in anthropology today. Exotic and fascinating, it offers us a glimpse into another world but it also threatens to undermine the foundations of anthropology due to its supposed irrational and non-scientific nature. Magic has thus often been 'explained away' by social or psychological reduction. The Anthropology of Magic redresses the balance and brings magic, as an aspect of consciousness, into focus through the use of classic texts and cutting-edge research. Suitable for student and scholar alike, The Anthropology of Magic updates a classical anthropological debate concerning the nature of human experience. A key theme is that human beings everywhere have the potential for magical consciousness. Taking a new approach to some perennial topics in anthropology - such as shamanism, mythology, witchcraft and healing - the book raises crucial theoretical and methodological issues to provide the reader with an engaging and critical understanding of the dynamics of magic.Join the live discussion on Facebook!
Magical Consciousness
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Author : Susan Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-08-20
Magical Consciousness written by Susan Greenwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-20 with Social Science categories.
How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to come together to reveal a largely hidden dynamic of magic. Magic gets to the very heart of some theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered in the social and natural sciences, especially to do with issues of rationality. This book examines magic head-on, not through its instrumental aspects but as an orientation of consciousness. Magical consciousness is affective, associative and synchronistic, shaped through individual experience within a particular environment. This work focuses on an in-depth case study using the anthropologist’s own experience gained through years of anthropological fieldwork with British practitioners of magic. As an ethnographic view, it is an intimate study of the way in which the cognitive architecture of a mind engages the emotions and imagination in a pattern of meanings related to childhood experiences, spiritual communications and the environment. Although the detail of the involvement in magical consciousness presented here is necessarily specific, the central tenets of modus operandi is common to magical thought in general, and can be applied to cross-cultural analyses to increase understanding of this ubiquitous human phenomenon.
Western Mysticism
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Author : Butler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Western Mysticism written by Butler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Social Science categories.
A renewed interest in the spiritual, with an increasing number of people today wishing to incorporate the contemplative in their active lives, prompts the reissue of this classic work, a doctrine that is at once elevated and practical. The writings are meant to be studied from three distinct points of view: religious philosophy, material for the study of those states between mind and body such as ecstasy and trance, and for the sake of their mysticism. Drawn from the writings and teachings of Saint Augustine, Saint Gregory and Saint Bernard, the writings form a coordinated body of doctrine with what three great teachers of mystical theology in the Western Church have written concerning their own religious experience and the theories they based on it. In addition, the book discusses such important topics as speculative contemplation, what mysticism is, the characteristics of Western mysticism, the practical, and the contrasts between the contemplative and active lives. No student of mysticism can possibly afford to neglect a volume so full of valuable suggestions and real insight into spiritual conditions.
The Nature Of Magic
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Author : Susan Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-03
The Nature Of Magic written by Susan Greenwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-03 with Social Science categories.
This book examines how and why practitioners of nature religion - Western witches, druids, shamans - seek to relate spiritually with nature through 'magical consciousness'. 'Magic' and 'consciousness' are concepts that are often fraught with prejudice and ambiguity respectively. Greenwood develops a new theory of magical consciousness by arguing that magic ultimately has more to do with the workings of the human mind in terms of an expanded awareness than with socio-cultural explanations. She combines her own subjective insights gained from magical practice with practitioners' in-depth accounts and sustained academic theory on the process of magic. She also tracks magical consciousness in philosophy, myth, folklore, story-telling, and the hi-tech discourse of postmodernity, and asks important questions concerning nature religion's environmental credentials, such as whether it as inherently ecological as many of its practitioners claim.
Jewish Mysticism And Magic
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Author : Maureen Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-08-07
Jewish Mysticism And Magic written by Maureen Bloom and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Providing a unique anthropological perspective on Jewish mysticism and magic, this book is a study of Jewish rites and rituals and how the analysis of early literature provides the roots for understanding religious practices. It includes analysis on the importance of sacrifice, amulets, and names, and their underlying cultural constructs and the persistence of their symbolic significance.