First published in 1895, “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind” is a pivotal work in the field of group psychology written by French social psychologist Gustave Le Bon. Le Bon theorizes that there are several characteristics of crowds as distinguishable from individual behavior. As it states in the preface: “The following work is devoted to an account of the characteristics of crowds. The whole of the common characteristics with which heredity endows the individuals of a race constitute the...
The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century...
The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century...
The «Three Initiates» who authored The Kybalion chose to remain anonymous. As a result, a great deal of speculation has been made about who actually wrote the book. The most common proposal is that The Kybalion was authored by William Walker Atkinson (1862 –1932), either alone or with others, such as Paul Foster Case (1884 –1954) and Elias Gewurz . The Kybalion is based on the extensive research and study of the world-old Hermetic Teachings. The book has dedicated to everyone interested in...
The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau. The Nibelungenlied is based on an oral tradition that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries. The poem is split into two parts: in the first part, Siegfried comes to Worms to acquire the hand of the Burgundian princess Kriemhild from her brother King Gunther. Gunther agrees to let Siegfried marry Kriemhild...
The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem written around 1200 in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau. The Nibelungenlied is based on an oral tradition that has some of its origin in historic events and individuals of the 5th and 6th centuries. The poem is split into two parts: in the first part, Siegfried comes to Worms to acquire the hand of the Burgundian princess Kriemhild from her brother King Gunther. Gunther agrees to let Siegfried marry Kriemhild...
First published in 1902, “The Varieties of Religious Experience” is William James’ philosophical and psychological examination of the nature of religion in human civilization. Based on James’s own Gifford Lectures given at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland between 1901 and 1902, James argues that “Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see ‘the liver’ determining the dicta...
Si estás leyendo estas líneas, es porque tus preguntas superan con creces tu conformismo. Por ello no te sorprenderá que te pregunte: ¿Sabes cómo nace el alma? ¿A qué se debe que tengamos que encarnar? ¿Entiendes elsufrimiento? ¿Dónde van los niños cuando mueren? Hola. Me llamo Fina y te propongo un viaje. Un viaje más allá de lo que crees que eres, para encontrarte con ese ser de luz que realmente eres y cómo llegaste a serlo. Te planteo explicaciones sencillas sobre algunas de esas preguntas...
Transhumanisten beschäftigten sich mit Eugenik und deren Grenzgebieten, sie beschäftigen sich mit regenerativer Medizin und dem Züchten menschlicher „Bestandteile“ (von Haut über Gliedmaßen bis zu menschlichen Organen), sie beschäftigen sich mit der Transplantation sämtlicher Körperteile (und mit ernsthaften Überlegungen sowie Vorbereitungen, menschliche Gehirne zu transplantieren); sie beschäftigen sich mit allen nur denkbaren (weiteren) Eingriffen ins menschliche Erbgut (mit dem Ziel,...
Укоренены ли наши эмоциональные состояния и поведение исключительно в химии мозга и жизненном опыте или они могут быть и выражениями намного более обширных и универсальных энергий? Какие особые состояния сознания в наибольшей степени способствуют интеграции и исцелению, и как мы можем научиться этим состояниям? В этой небольшой книге, обобщающей результаты работы всей его жизни, Станислав Гроф отвечает на эти вопросы и затрагивает множество других. Вы узнаете о мирах шамана и мистика, о том, как...