The Sacred & The Profane | Mircea Eliade
By identifying with a myth or an archetype, archaic man participates in ultimate reality and enters the plane of the gods, of life everlasting.
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Psychology Of Evil | Shadow Projection
Becker points out all political scapegoating is essentially a religious ritual. It is the act of embodying all the evil in the world and all the injustice in the state onto one easily discernible object. An object that then must be destroyed to destroy the evil it symbolizes.
The (Not So) Secret Religion Of Money
An essay on the religious aspect of money, man’s innate denial of death and quest for more life. Has gold replaced God in today’s society?
The Dark Psychology of Giving
Ernest Becker shows us the dark psychological roots of our desire to give and make gifts. Heroism and guilt form the psychology of gifts.
The No-Self Teaching Of The Buddha
Anattā, which many people translate as ‘the theory of no-self’ should more rightly be translated as ‘the no-theory of self’. To understand this teaching means to completely transform your outlook on the world in a way that is difficult to describe in words.
The World Is A Fractal
A contemplation on ancient insight from Vedic India.
Iron Man / Hephaestus: An Archetype Of Trauma And Modernity
What does the story of the wounded craftsman tell us about our deepest insecurities? And how has our modern age given a new meaning to this timeless tale?