Religious ecstasy

Chadwick, J. 1958. The Decipherment of Linear B, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. In this article, Chadwick’s discussion is two-fold: I. Interpretation of the Linear B tablet founded in Crete. II. When the Minoan script of Linear A became extinct. As suggested in this article, Evans hypothesises the script of Linear B was a modified form of the Minoan script Linear A. Thus, this article deduces that the decipherment of Linear B is the most important piece of archaeological evidence for…

Beer was an integral part of their religious ceremonies and mythology. Early civilizations found the mood-altering properties of beer supernatural, and the newfound state of intoxication was considered divine. Beer, it was thought, must contain a spirit or god, since drinking the liquid so possessed the spirit of the drinker. Remnants of this belief persist to modern times. We still refer to alcohol and alcoholic beverages as “spirits”. “The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer”,…

A great deal of present-day postmodern theatre simply constitutes one piece of a large evolutionary historical puzzle from which playwrights are able to apply and adapt various styles, techniques, and examples. Although traditional Native story-telling and customs bear many signs of early theatric components, contemporary Native playwrights find themselves working in an unprecedented industry, where very few precursors to their craft exist. Therefore, some of the most renown plays in Western…

magnitudes and they were seen by Sufis. First is Zahir which is the outer form and is the outward meaning of the Qur’an. The second is batin which is the inner form and is the unseen meaning of the Qur’an. Sufism signifies a measurement of Islamic religious life however on occasions this has been seen as suspicious to the Muslim theologians. It is known that the name Sufism might have been taken from the Arabic word ‘Suf’ which means wool. This is due to the fact that Sufis would like to wear…

The psychological approach questions the behaviors of characters in connection to basic ideas and to the writers’ minds. Psychology became one of several ideas that influenced methods of reading and understanding literature in the late nineteenth century. Sigmund Freud, whose work was influential in this area, tried to explain why people behaved how they did. Freud concluded that the psyche was made up of the id, ego, and superego from the patients he tended. If one of these experiences is…

Anandamayi Ma Nirmala Sundari was born in a poor Brahmin familyin 1896. She was married by 12 and lived with her husband till his death in 1938. From the initial days of marriage, Nirmala would retreat from daily activities and spend her time in spiritual ecstasy. Soon she was noticed by people as an extraordinary spiritual person. Her husband believed that his wife was an incarnation of a goddess. She bgan to be called Anandmayi Ma. In 1926, she stopped being a wife and began travelling all…

As we mature and enter into relationships with one another, we make mistakes of all types, but some mistakes can quickly end a relationship. Cheating has always been a big taboo in relationships because the whole point of two people entering into a relationship is to be exclusive to only each other. In a pre-marital relationship you can just walk away with nothing holding you two together but what if the two are married. Instead of plain cheating it has become adultery which is a breach of the…

Emily Dickinson was an American poet known to be on the forefront of the unique poetic voice that is so widely known today. Although Dickinson was considered one of the founders of the American poetic voice there is little information on her and her life. The reasoning behind there being so little information on Dickinson is because she spent most of her life as a recluse. There was only a meager amount of people who knew were Dickinson was and who got to interact and communicate with her.…

this single passage, the director alluded to power nine separate times and even stated that the priests of the church had power over kings, emperors, and even God himself. “Stephen thus becomes elusive of social or religious order (296), because he notices gradually that both religious order and Dublin, which are the tangible and centers of his nationality, have failed to provide him with a vision of reality corresponding with his own experience” (Gunes 43). This initial invitation into the fold…

Alexis Oyola Marriage and Family September 21, 2017 Critical Review #1 In Andrew Greeley’s article on “Premarital Sex”, he discusses the true reason for Catholics abstaining from sex. Greeley explains that a long time ago physical virginity was necessary to ensure that one’s land would be, without a doubt, passed on to their true kin (Greeley, Premarital Sex). By true kin, I mean that the child truly belongs to the husband. This was a cultural element that the Catholic Church had associated…