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I immediately closed the book. I almost wept. I sat there trembling, so touched that I was unable to read further. I felt not so much that I had found ...

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The Psychospiritual Stages of Dying All religions begin with the cry “Help!” William James This very earth is the Lotus Land of Purity; And this body is the body of ...

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And less than a hundred years later … “What do you think of the world to come?” an admirer asked Thoreau. “One world at a time,” Thoreau replied.9 Time, of ...

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Figure 7.2. Abraham and Isaac, sixteenth century, from Church of the Madeleine, Troyes, France Vassil/Wikimedia Commons Basic Teachings of Judaism Jews trace their history back to the biblical characters of ...

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23 Time Changed into Space In an earlier chapter it was stated that in a certain sense time consumes space, and that it does so in consequence of the power ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-31 | Author:Murphy, James Bernard

CHAPTER FOUR A Crowd of Theories René Girard: What a delight to talk about crowds and scapegoats with the great social psychologist, Gordon Allport, who has written about the psychology ...

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6 Spirit, Light, and Seed In an article written in 1957, I discussed a number of experiences, mythologies, and speculations related to “mystical light.”1 My main design was to establish ...

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Connecting through Interpretation at Museums, Zoos, Aquariums, and Protected Areas In addition to the already discussed Disney Animal Kingdom Park and various national parks, interpretive displays with conservationist messages are ...

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Wang Che and the Establishment of Ch’üan Chen Taoism After the northern and southern dynasties, Taoism matured into an institutionalized religion. Under the T’ang dynasty (618–907) it enjoyed the patronage ...

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84 One reader responded that the separation of religion and politics is in the constitution. Not true. The constitution says that there shall be no established state church—very different. Seven ...

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In September 2004, during a conference in Padang, Indonesia, together with my good friend and mentor from India Sebastian Painadath, S.J., I might have been a bit carried away: It ...

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Chapter Twenty Negative Merging The symbiotic phase does not comprise only gratifying experiences; it includes many painful and frustrating experiences. When the infant’s needs are not met adequately or immediately, ...

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Awakened Understanding As suggested earlier, we can distinguish between two kinds of right understanding. The second form is awakened understanding, the content of the enlightenment experience. It means directly seeing ...

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