Category: Religion
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The Cosmic Dance of the Soul by Dr Lillian Hartley (10)
As exemplified by Kierkegaard and Heidegger, the existentialist response to this crisis is not to seek external validation or perfection but to embrace more profound uncertainties and limitations of life.
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Jung & Religion – the many faces of God – and how to cope with them
This is the mystical or religious experience (of sorts) – experiences of this transcendent realm that, for centuries, men called God.
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A Biblical History of Angels
When Jesus was born, the interest in angels grew more and more, and more was added to the rolls (check out the Talmud, written by rabbis between 200 and 400 CE).
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A Brotherhood of Sinners: the Bible in National Hawthorne’s The House of The Seven Gables
We start with the Salem Witch Trials of 1692-3, during which the “holiest” of the community circled the gallows loudly, applauding the “work of blood”.
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How might Stonehenge have been experienced and used by people in the prehistoric past?
What if, because of its form, Stonehenge possesses a unique, magical agency or potency that manifests in being experienced and or used as diversely as Jacquetta Hawkes has suggested?
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Revelation of the Magi
This text purports to have been written by the Magi themselves; however unlikely that might be, it reads like an exciting novel, the important message of which we might only have been ready for today.
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Hermeneutics of Christmas
Looking at the Nativity through a similar lens, then in Mary we might sense the presence of Isis; in Joseph, we might see Osiris, the patriarch with the crooked staff.
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The Christmas Star
Probably no one has done more to promote the comet hypothesis than Giotto di Bondone (1266/17 – 1337), the medieval Italian artist. His fresco entitled ‘the Adoration of the Magi’ in Padua portrayed the Christmas Star as a comet.
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Man’s Relationship with his Gods
It’s interesting that our familiarity with our humanity increased as our familiarity with the gods decreased.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 5)
In this, Jung took the view from Jewish magic that ‘guardian angels’ could be pretty much the same thing as one’s daimon.