Mysticism

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson was born on May 25, 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts. “When he was 8 years old, his father, who was a minister, died and left his family to face hard times.” according to my research. After the devastating loss, the family went through poverty, but that did not stop him from going to school. At 14 years of age, he got accepted into Harvard College, where he received one of the best educations. “When he was 17, he started keeping a journal and continued…

uses this ideology to gain power and control throughout their empire. They brainwash people into the idea that country is more important than oneself. In the article What were the Wartime Japanese Thinking Christopher Harding states: A militaristic mysticism has everyone in thrall to the emperor, sapping people of independent spirit and the ability to make decisions for themselves. They are relatively incapable of critical thinking, ordinary human feeling, or even humour. (Harding 50) Harding…

Throughout the history of dance culture, many ideas have evolved through writings of pioneers and artists who work in that field. Ted shawn was born in 1891 and died in 1972, he was one of the artist who believed that dance was more than one simple art. He mostly based his ideas on a philosophy concepts that involves spiritual and physical claims. In fact, the way he makes a bridge between harmony and movements that surrounds the whole idea of the culture of dance. From Shawn 's theory, dance…

Religious syncretism is when two or more religious belief systems are blended or combined into a new system. There are many reasons why religious syncretism happens. One of the most common ways that religious syncretism occurs is when two or more religious systems exist and are actively practiced in the same area. Eventually, the two religions may blend and become one. Religious syncretism may also happen when a conquering culture imposes its religion on the people it has conquered, but the…

The Greek World view is a unique and defined world view that issued the start of the philosophical terms and concepts that are even carried on in today’s livelihoods. What exactly is a world? A world view is a form of vision, how an individual perceives his/her world from their perspective, how certain actions are seen as right or wrong, good or evil, just and unjust etc. - “A worldview is a framework of set of fundamental beliefs through which we view the world and our calling and future in it…

What is the first thing you picture when you hear the words “Australian nature”? I’m sure most of you instantly think of the green-filled plains or the sunburnt land and the shimmering, blue water we are surrounded by. And yes, the majority of us take pride in our sun flared lifestyle and rhapsodise about what nature brings to us. Consequently, it is no surprise that many Australian poems are based on ideas of the Australian environment, landscape and nature, whether with respect to our…

I 've long held a desire to understand and help combat the mentally and emotionally detrimental aspects of our society and culture, It was born out of the death of my friend Aiden in high school He committed suicide after coming out as gay to his family, but not before his father threatened to disown him, his grandfather suggesting he join the Marines, his grandmother trying to "change his mind" with religion and his mother staying silent, he received everything except for what he truly needed,…

The book “Forty rules of Love” is written by a Turkish author and storyteller Elif Shafak, which has earned her many awards and praises. She mostly writes fiction both in Turkish and English. Shafak mixes Western and Eastern customs of narrating in stories of women, minorities, outsiders, subcultures, and youth. Her written work draws on various societies and literary traditions, reflecting interests ever, theory, Sufism, oral culture, and social legislative issues. The Forty Rules of love is a…

Religion in Moderation Religion is a subject of personal interpretation. However, the degree to which you chose to follow or not follow religion is influenced by external factors of socialization and the environment around you. Ryan Cragun is the author of What You Don’t Know about Religion (but Should) a book which presents objective data, and subjective analysis and opinion of four groups of religious individuals in regards to factors and topics of the modern world and how the presence or…

socio-economic wealth, as other branches of Judaism and their respective synagogues are, and, while I noticed it and took it more than my parents did, the wealth of Judaic knowledge in not only Torah and Jewish law, but Jewish mysticism. Chabad essentially takes the mysticism offered by the Jewish Kabbalah, which talks about the aforementioned balancing of intellectual faculties and emotions, and synthesizes it into rain droplets understandable to the common person. I took to this more than my…