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Oct 11, 2024 · The sacred is that aspect of a community’s beliefs, myths, and sacred objects that is set apart and forbidden. The function of ritual in the community is that of providing the proper rules for action in the realm of the sacred as well as supplying a bridge for passing into the realm of the profane.
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Oct 10, 2024 · As it turns out, some ideas are not worth spreading. The printed word has relentlessly dominated society for the last half millennium. But we now seem to be going through an archaic revival in the age of screens, expanding our personal Plato’s caves through images and the spoken word.
2 days ago · Religions have sacred histories, narratives, and mythologies, preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe, and other phenomena.
2 days ago · Christians and some non-Christian religions have historically integrated well with scientific ideas, as in the ancient Egyptian technological mastery applied to monotheistic ends, the scientific advances made by Muslim scholars during the Ottoman Empire and mathematics under Hinduism and Buddhism.
Oct 26, 2024 · Spiritual. All practices aim at purifying ego-centeredness, and direct the abilities at the divine reality. [137] Spiritual practices may include meditation, mindfulness, prayer, the contemplation of sacred texts, ethical development, [118] and spiritual retreats in a convent.
Oct 17, 2024 · The role of the sacred texts in the growth of Indian philosophy is different in each of the different systems. In those systems that may be called adhyatmavidya, or sciences of spirituality, the sacred texts play a much greater role than they do in the logical systems (anvikshikividya).
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Oct 22, 2024 · The spread of Hinduism in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Philosophical sutras and the rise of the Six Schools of philosophy. Tantric and Shakta views of nature, humanity, and the sacred. Cultural expressions: visual arts, theater, and dance.
