The article explores the panditas and their role function in Philippine history, examining selected depictions Spanish English sources from 17th century until early 20th centuries. As precolonial figures that illustrate link of Philippines to broader Malay world, gradually acquired embodied Islamic elements into amorphous identity practice, ultimately becoming knowledge, spirituality, culture M...

The student who dives deep into the mysteries that enshrine Truth . will tell of her beauties, and proclaim to those have ears hear words healing. So wrote English cleric spiritualist W. Stainton Moses in his Spirit Teachings (1883)-or, if is be believed, so spirit Imperator, who, promising spiritual bodily edification, enlisted as earthly amanuensis. Treating purportedly real writings like tra...

Abstract This article examines the genealogy of concept “transconscious,” a key notion in work Mircea Eliade. It argues that “transconscious” is inheritor long psychological tradition study religion, namely religious faculty. The first section looks at faculty Max Müller and some his German post-Kantian precursors, namely, Friedrich Jacobi Jakob Fries. subsequent sections examine history terms ...

The Harmony of the World and Drying Faeces. Juliusz Świecianowski His Works (1834–1900) was a member Academia di San Luca, Belle Arti in Bologna Congregazione dei Virtuosi al Pantheon Rome (today Pontificia Insigne Accademia e Lettere). He an architect by education but, above all, theoretician inventor. published his universalistic aesthetic theories alluding to occultism Kabbalah many language...

According to the common view of Jung as the rebellious crown prince of psychoanalysis, his doctrine of the archetypes appears, at worst, a lightheaded fascination with occultism or, at best, a way to overcome the historical and personalistic reductionism of the Freudian doctrine of sexual stages. Against the background of German thought and East-of-the-Rhine psychiatric interests, one is inclin...