Sublime

The third fact is that Jesus was a member of a minority group in the midst of a larger dominant and controlling group. In 63 B.C.…

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The illusory nature of this world, and the desire for escape by those trapped in it, is the key to the metaphysic implicit in both Hinduism and Buddhism.

“There is one thing we always

The Greek historian Zosimos writes that without the Mysteries 'life for the Greeks would be unlivable' for 'the sacred Mysteries hold the whole human race together'.[

We are strangers in the world, but also strangers to ourselves.

After meeting author and mythologist Joseph Campbell and composer John Cage in New York he headed to California and began teaching at the American Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. There his popular lectures spilled over into coffeehouse talks and appearances with the well-known beat writers Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg. I

The authors of these studies suspect a large part of the health and longevity benefits owes itself to the communal aspect of worship. These studies explored a diverse array of religious services. In other words, it’s not that any specific belief system or deity is saving you. It’s far more likely that you and the people in your community are saving

stated that there was a basic division of the ways of men: those who wish for peace of soul and happiness must believe and embrace faith, while those who wish to pursue the truth must forsake peace of mind and devote their life to inquiry.