Tag: enlightenment
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The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self
from westernbuddhistreview.com: Traditional Buddhist sources have little to say about Nature in the often abstract and romanticized sense in which we use the word today, and still less to say about ecology understood in contemporary scientific terms. Why then is there so much interest in Buddhism among environmental ethicists and activists? And why so much…
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The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
from historytoday.com: Twenty-first century Britain is a society in which the fascination with the ‘occult’ is flourishing. Paul Kléber Monod’s new book seeks to illuminate one phase of the convoluted history of this phenomenon: its fate and fortunes during the long 18th century. The period 1650-1815 is synonymous with the onward march of scientific reason…
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Who Are The Illuminati?
By 2005, Terry Melanson spent over a decade of study on the Illuminati. Illuminati Conspiracy Archive website provided a platform for Melanson, who posted his progress in mid-aughts, “Illuminati Conspiracy Part One: A Precise Exegesis on the Available Evidence.” Robert Anton Wilson influenced author, who quotes from Wilson’s book, “Cosmic Trigger (pdf),” as succinct description…
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Death of the Phoenix: Final Act for US?
Jewish Kabbalists believe that the ancient civilization which God judged was advanced far beyond our own due to the enlightenment of its inhabitants by an extraterrestrial race of gods—those fallen angels who mated with human women in Genesis 6.