From the standpoint of social philosophy, the phenomenon of techno-religion is examined as a quasi-religious form of consciousness in which technological systems acquire a symbolic status of the sacred unsupported by religious tradition or institutional continuity. The aim of the study is to identify the mechanisms by which transcendent orientation is substituted by algorithmically managed...
The article examines the fundamental causes of the crisis in the contemporary philosophy of consciousness. The most important of these is the formulation of the difficult problem of consciousness as a question about the nature of subjective experience (qualia), which results in the reduction of consciousness to elementary sensations - visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory. More...
This article examines the sacred and mythological aspects of the combat experience of Russian Army soldiers during the initial period of the First World War (1914-1915). The focus is on the process of transformation of traditional religious ideas into a syncretic system that performed the functions of psychological adaptation and mobilization of the individual in extreme conditions. Based on...
This article examines the understanding and use of the concept of energy in the New Age movement. Based on an analysis of the movement's teachings, it discusses how energy has become a central symbol, integrating ideas borrowed from physics, Eastern traditions, and Western esoteric teachings. Energy in New Age philosophy is a polysemantic category, denoting both physical and spiritual forces...
The paper explores Michael Harner's “basic shamanism” as a syncretic phenomenon in modern culture. Neo-shamanism is considered as a subculture or syncretic form of new religious consciousness that combines with elements of traditional cultures and elements of modern psychology and mysticism (esotericism) in modern popular culture. The article defines the problem of the emergence and development...