Diogenes
June 25, 2020
Natalya Mozghovaya
The article is devoted to the analysis of such a spiritual phenomenon in the history of Russian philosophy as its spiritual-academic branch, represented in the ХІХ century by the scientific and pedagogical activity of philosophy professors of four academies of the Russian Empire: St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and Kazan. On the example of the Kiev and Moscow Academies, the unique features of this...
Diogenes
June 30, 2019
Manol Manolov, Alexander Voznyuk
The article demonstrates some important direct and indirect facts about human consciousness being the main value of a man and human society, since consciousness is necessary and sufficient, system-forming quality of a human being as a representative of Homo sapiens. These facts enable to unfold some theoretical speculations helping to formulate some conclusions about consciousness revealing...
Diogenes
June 1, 1995
Christian Bouchet
The belief that obscure dreams have meaning, that they can be understood in spite of their seeming incoherence, is shared by most cultures: the importance attributed to the interpretation of dreams comes up several times in such sacred texts as the Bible and Talmud, where it is warned that an uninterpreted dream is like an unopened letter. However, even if such a point of view may justify the...
Diogenes
June 1, 1992
Wolfgang G. Jilek
5 citations
Consecutive waves of paleolithic migrants crossing the Bering land bridge from Siberia to North America between 80,000 and 7,000 b.c. brought with them the shamanic way of harnessing supernatural powers. This way prevailed until the White intrusion 400 years ago, into the living space of the aboriginal peoples of North America. Wherever European political, religious, and economic dominance was...
Diogenes
June 1, 1992
Michel Matarasso
In our time “spirits” have been reduced to mythical beings often objectified in the form of masks. The mask-figure of Toornarsuk, this cunning and mischievous Eskimo shamanistic spirit-figure’, seems to offer us both a mirror image of the various ways shamanism has been observed and a reflection of the complex picture shamanism presents to contemporary researchers. Shamanism, like Toornarsuk,...
Diogenes
September 1, 1957
María Zambrano
1 citation
Until now, the analysis of dreams has dealt almost exclusively with their contents and has been concerned with an attempt to extract all their meaning from the images which appear in them. As is well known, the incorporation into science of the analysis of dreams began with Freud, who, upon discovering a basic hypothesis or subject, quickly arrived at a kind of metaphysics of which dreams are...
Diogenes
March 1, 1957
Anatole Lewitzky
What is shamanism? What is the social nature of this institution which at times seems so clearly to be situated on the fringe of society that one is tempted to call it anti-social? There is indeed no lack of definitions, but where religion is concerned definitions are never satisfactory, for the limits of various phenomena are too uncertain and shadings between them too subtle. The social...