The astonishing revival of saint worship in contemporary Israel was ignited by Moroccan Jews, who had immigrated to the new country in the 1950s and 1960s.
By 1791, the French Revolution had spread to Haiti, where slaves and free blacks alike had begun demanding civil rights guaranteed in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man.
First English translation of Victor Hugo's writings on his experiments in spiritualism *; Reveals Hugo's conversations with renowned discarnate entities such as Shakespeare, Plato, Galileo, and Jesus *; Examines his contacts with aliens from the planets Mercury and Jupiter and the revelation that our entire universe is a quantum hologram *; Discusses Hugo's possible role as a grand master of the Priory of Sion During Victor Hugo's exile on the Isle of Jersey, where he and his family and friends escaped the reign of Napolon III, he conducted ';table-tapping' sances, transcribing hundreds of channeled conversations with entities from the beyond.
Shows how we must make deep changes to complete our paradigm shift from the old mechanistic worldview to the new organic worldview *; Reveals the distinct stages of paradigm shifts through the ages, including the 18th-century Enlightenment and the critical stage of our current shift *; Explains how the new organic worldview began with Goethe and Kant *; Offers solutions for each of us to be able to realize and make the deep changes needed for global regeneration In Global Awakening, Michael Schacker shows that hidden within our global crises is a positive future for the planet.
In this important study of the meaning of the Grail, one of Europe's greatest esoteric philosophers discloses the pre-Christian and initiatic sources of this symbolic motif that is so central to Western mythology and culture.
Seit Jahrhunderten hüten die Dogon, ein Volk aus den Felsenlandschaften Malis, ein erstaunliches kosmologisches Wissen – darunter präzise Angaben über das Sirius-System, das erst in der Moderne durch Teleskope bestätigt wurde.
Sensible Ecstasy investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers.
Sufism, the name given to Islamic mysticism, has been the subject of many studies, but the orders through which the organizational aspect of the Sufi spirit was expressed has been neglected.
Reveals the thread that unites the spiritual paths that have opposed orthodox religion over the centuries and the challenge they provide to the status quo *; Contains 40 essays by 18 key investigators of heresies and suppressed spiritual traditions, including Steven Sora, Ian Lawton, Jeff Nisbet, P.
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively.
The moral values and interpretive systems of religions are crucially involved in how people imagine the challenges of sustainability and how societies mobilize to enhance ecosystem resilience and human well-being.
In den heiligen Hallen von Heliopolis hüteten die Priester ein Wissen, das über Generationen hinweg verschlüsselt und nur Eingeweihten zugänglich war: das Geheimnis der Sonne – des Gottes Re, der als Quelle allen Lebens verehrt wurde.
Originally published in 1973, this volume consists of a sequence of essays in religious thinking, responsive to the impact of Quranic style and emphasis.
It has been argued that the mystical Sufi form of Islam is the most sensitive to other cultures, being accommodative to other traditions and generally tolerant to peoples of other faiths.
This is the first extensive scholarly study of drone metal music and its religious associations, drawing on five years of ethnographic participant observation from more than 300 performances and 74 interviews, plus surveys, analyses of sound recordings, artwork, and extensive online discourse about music.
*; Examines in depth Enoch's full story of the Watchers, the fallen angels who came to Earth and shared corrupting forbidden knowledge*; Explores how Enoch was a vital component of Second Temple messianic Judaism, speculative Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, and Gnostic mythology*; Investigates the entire history of the Book of Enoch and its important esoteric offshoots, including the later 2 Enoch (the Slavonic ';Book of the Secrets of Enoch') and the so-called Hebrew ';Book of Enoch' (3 Enoch)Said to have been written by the prophet Enoch, the great-grandfather of Noah, the Book of Enoch disappeared for many centuries, except for one place: the Bible of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which held the book as canonical.
Bridging the gap between science and the world's great spiritual traditions to move our worldview forward *; With contributions from 28 leading scientists and spiritual thinkers, including Michael Beckwith, Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, Amit Goswami, Stanislav Grof, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jos Argelles, and Peter Russell *; Offers strategies to promote the fusion of science and spirituality *; Explores phenomena at the crossroads of science and religion, such as the nonlocal mind, conscious evolution, and quantum consciousness Edited by Nobel Prize nominee Ervin Laszlo and WorldShift International cofounder Kingsley Dennis, this volume brings together 28 leading scientists and spiritual thinkers for a game-changing conversation on bridging the gap between science and religion.
Drawing on Jewish myth, ritual and tradition, as well as the author's own experiences, this original and unique book offers insights into how Jung's psychology and ideas are relevant if understood from a wider, archetypal, perspective.
Furthers the revelations of The Urantia Book, providing a beautiful vision of our coming return to the Multiverse *; Offers angelic reassurance that ';Armageddon has been canceled' and that the coming transition will be gentle and the future positive *; Explains Lucifer's angelic rebellion, its impact on the past 200,000 years, and the transformation of consciousness on the horizon as the fallen angels return *; Shares the author's spiritual wisdom gained through extensive travels and encounters with angels, ETs, and other enlightened beings As recorded in The Urantia Book, two hundred millennia ago 37 planets, including our own, were quarantined from the rest of the Multiverse to quell the spread of the Lucifer rebellion within the angelic hierarchy.
Awaken your life with the God and Goddess and discover the magick of the Wiccan wayGet ready to take a journey to a mystical place where anything can happen--an adventure into the realm of witchcraft, magick, and empowerment.
The Art of Being and Becoming gathers Inayat Khan's teachings on what the Sufis consider the fruit of the whole creation -- the divine art of creating the human personality.
From medieval contemplation to the early modern cosmopoetic imagination, to the invention of aesthetic experience, to nineteenth-century decadent literature, and to early-twentieth century essayistic forms of writing and film, Niklaus Largier shows that mystical practices have been reinvented across the centuries, generating a notion of possibility with unexpected critical potential.
Reveals the hidden meaning of the Grail and a secret Christian doctrine for achieving higher consciousness*; Shows that Gnosticism is not a derivative of Christianity but the revelation of the true message of Jesus*; Describes the ancient relationship between water and spirit*; Explains the doctrine of immanence taught by Jesus at the Last Supper*; Features the translated source text from The Refutation of All Heresies by Bishop Hippolytus, the only existing record of the Naassene SermonIn the third century C.
Originally published in 1978 Spirit Possession and Spirit Mediumship in Africa and Afro-America is an incredibly diverse and comprehensive bibliography on published works containing ethnographic data on, and analysis of, spirit possession and spirit mediumship in North and Sub-Saharan Africa and in some Afro-American communities in the Western Hemisphere.
