This article outlines some of the major Eastern sexual and spiritual traditions (primarily Hinduism, Taoism and Tantrism), and discusses their relevance for the contemporary Western world. The article begins by examining the sources of Eastern sexual traditions, before and after the "Axial" period, the turning point at which male consciousness and power gained ascendancy over the female princi...

The relationship between religion and health has been a subject of interest in the past and in the latest years becoming increasingly visible in the social, behavioral, and health sciences. Among several approaches to be considered, the present work provides a briefly discuss concerning the bond between health and religiosity in the cure process and diseases treatment. Several investigations sh...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to add to the understanding of humility-based economic development and entrepreneurship among the Amish – a religious group – in the USA, whose culture values asceticism, frugality, thrift and work, as well as humility. Design/methodology/approach – The paper presents an ethnographic research study. Findings – Amish adults teach their young that work is pl...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze Foucault’s final key notion subjectivation in the light Baroque metaphor fold(ing). According Deleuze, two distinct sources, Heidegger’s memory Being and Leibniz’s monadology, are a way brought together Foucauldian notion. I try highlight importance concept context performative turn contemporary philosophy various historical ways conceiving concept. A tec...

BACKGROUND Between roughly 500 BCE and 300 BCE, three distinct regions, the Yangtze and Yellow River Valleys, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ganges Valley, saw the emergence of highly similar religious traditions with an unprecedented emphasis on self-discipline and asceticism and with "otherworldly," often moralizing, doctrines, including Buddhism, Jainism, Brahmanism, Daoism, Second Templ...

One of the things that initially attracted me to Buddhist thought and practices was the widespread description of Buddhism as the Middle Path or the Middle Way, denoting a central course between the extremes of asceticism and indulgence arrived at by the Buddha in his years of practice. Philosophically, I have also become increasingly impressed with the teachings of one of the major schools of ...

The article examines the ideas of environmentalism in works and statements His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. ecological concept "Green Patriarch" reveals relations between religion environment. cause environmental crisis is recognized as a spirituality. It argued that utilitarian logic ethics are not enough to change human behavior towards environment – thinking requires anot...

Abstract. Prayer in silence is a prayer of the mind that continuously done without stopping to ask for God`s mercy. But another view says only human request God. Efpherm, it emphasized not just request, but can maintain purity heart and unite with God book Hymns Preserved In Armenian, No. I . The method used writing this article library research, describe how important pray silence. By praying ...