Abstract ‘Insight’ or vipassanā meditation refers to meditative practices employed within Buddhist traditions. But following the secularization of in recent decades – that is, its differentiation from Buddhism orthodox Jewish Israeli meditators frame it as a religiously neutral, therapeutic technique centred on mundane human body. They thus consider involving no forbidden ‘Eastern’ religious co...

Studies on cultural divisions in Western European politics typically combine two different value divides. The first divide is moral traditionalism versus progressiveness, which pits the religious and secular against each other matters of procreation, family gender roles. second one authoritarianism libertarianism, captures opposition between high- low-educated about basically attitudes towards ...

This paper will attempt to sketch a historical outline of ideas relating to revelation by tracing the development of a concept or topos which has preoccupied Western thinkers since antiquity and which became crucial during the Romantic period — the concept of the Daemon, and the general mode or sensibility referred to as the “Daemonic.” In Classical thought, the term “Daemonic” is associated wi...