The Mișcarea de Integrare Spirituală în Absolut (Movement for Spiritual Integration into the Absolute, henceforth MISA) is a Romanian-origin transnational yoga movement founded in 1990 and based on the teachings of Gregorian Bivolaru (b. 1952), also known as Grieg. Emerging in the aftermath of the collapse of the Communist regime in Romania, MISA developed into one of the largest contemporary...
This article argues that the study of esotericism has long been characterized by a structural overemphasis on texts, doctrines, and worldviews, accompanied by a relative neglect of practices and practice-induced experiences. While recent scholarship has increasingly acknowledged the importance of ritual, embodiment, and ethnographic methods, no coherent methodology for the systematic analysis...
The introduction to this special issue outlines the concept of Western learned magic and suggests to analyse it as an entangled tradition, thus calling for an interdisciplinary, transcultural and transreligious perspective on its history. A working heuristic of seven different types of entanglement in the history of Western learned magic is proposed, whereas special emphasis is placed on...
By 'stochastic' Hines apparently means non-deterministic: a system in which its current state does not determine its next state.14 The metaphor of the 'Aeon' has been a common topos in 'learned magic' discourse ever since Aleister Crowley: see Bogdan 2012.15 See also Hine 1991, who states that if the 'Quantum revolution dealt a death blow to the dualistic perception of the universe, Chaos...