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Quest For The Source Of Lost Knowledge

Submitted by Rifkin the Historian on Saturday, August 14, 2021 11:16 AM
By Benozzo Gozzoli – http://www.ritosimbolico.net/studi2/studi2061.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12619307 The Council of Ferrara-Florence, held from 1438 to 1445 in, not surprisingly, the Italian cities of Ferrara and Florence, had as one of its main objectives the possible reunion of the two branches of Christianity, Roman Catholic and Orthodox Byzantine, that had been separated since 1054. Agreement Read More…
Satan, The Concept

Submitted by Rev. Samuel Anatto on Friday, August 13, 2021 11:30 AM
Image by chesterf from http://123rf.com Among the ancient beliefs of Zoroastrianism, the Persian Magi (Astrologers and Zoroastrian Priests) turned some Hindu concepts around, and with them the Asuras were good, and the Devas bad. “Ahura Mazda,” the god was good, his counterpart “Ahriman” was bad … the “devil” of sorts. So there was now evil Read More…
The Democratic Socialists Are Coming

Submitted by American Man on Thursday, August 12, 2021 11:41 AM
Image by mj007 from http://123rf.com The number of people in this country leaning towards a desire for ‘democratic socialism” is growing. It is a pretty word with pretty ideas. American politicians today who are associated with democratic socialism generally favor New Deal-style programs, believing that government is a force for good in people’s lives and Read More…
Is Metaphysics The Same As The Supernatural?

Submitted by Teacher on Wednesday, August 11, 2021 10:37 AM
Image by Glauco Gianoglio from Pixabay It’s common misconception, but no. The term supernatural connotes description of paranormal, psychic, magical, occult type of earthly human physical behaviors. Do earthly humans “naturally,” by the nature of being human, hold the behavioral possibility to behave super “natural” (beyond earthly human “nature” of Human Nature?) Perhaps you know Read More…
The Knowing Soul

Submitted by Shandar on Tuesday, August 10, 2021 11:33 AM
Copyright: <a href=’https://www.123rf.com/profile_styleuneed’>styleuneed</a> What I have to speak about, briefly and in a most elementary way, is what both learning and teaching mean and do not mean. Learning and teaching are mysterious processes. To understand them fully would mean to discover the secret of our lives. For we are, perhaps above anything else, learning and Read More…
Stoic

Submitted by Veritas on Monday, August 9, 2021 11:53 AM
IMAGE by Tumisu from Pixabay Stoicism is a philosophy of personal ethics that enables the individuals who follow it to not be controlled by the desire for pleasure or fear of pain, by using their mind to understand the world and to do one’s part in nature’s plan, and by working together and treating Read More…
Self-Extortion

Submitted by Bliss on Sunday, August 8, 2021 1:07 PM
Image by PDPics from Pixabay So, have you ever been blackmailed? Chances are very few if any of us have faced such a life altering event. That situation where someone or some group has taken something from you and is threatening to expose you to the world unless you pay up some huge amount Read More…
Alternative Healing? – A Chat With The Universe

Submitted by Gamanesque on Saturday, August 7, 2021 3:33 PM
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Dear Universe, What’s all this talk about Alternative Healing? I thought you told us we have everything we need! If that’s true, then what, exactly, are we healing from and why must there be “alternative” ways to do that? Alternative? What do you mean by alternative? Alternative to what? Read More…
Remembering Who We Truly Are In the Face Of The Digital Revolution

Submitted by Adam on Friday, August 6, 2021 1:41 PM
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay In the Western wisdom tradition, there is a recurrent theme of humanity’s self-forgetfulness. We find it, for example, in Plato, in the Corpus Hermeticum, in Boethius’s The Consolation of Philosophy and in Gnostic texts such as the Hymn of the Pearl. This self-forgetfulness is a forgetting of our spiritual Read More…
Sex Life Of The Buddha

Submitted by Krishna on Wednesday, August 4, 2021 2:45 PM
Derivative Images According to John Powers – Professor of Religious Studies, Deakin University: “Despite the fact that Prince Siddhārtha Gautama would grow up to become a religious leader and found a monastic order that enjoined strict celibacy for its members, during his teens he is commonly depicted as residing in the women’s quarters of his Read More…