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Carl Jung & Buddhism On The Unconscious
Jungian psychology and the Yogācāra school of Buddhism both investigated the depths of the human psyche. Both proposed the existence of a hidden layer beneath our everyday conscious mind…
The Universe Awakens Through You
The nondual experience of oneness (wholeness) is at the core of mystical experience. But this union of opposites, this awareness of being is available in ordinary, everyday experience. One only needs but look and see.
A Buddhist Story About No-Self (The Chariot Simile)
Who are you? What is your self? What is that which you call ‘I’ and who are ‘you’ to call it that? Inquiry into the nature of the self is at the core of the Buddha’s teaching – and it is the key to the Buddhist liberation from suffering. Here we explore an iconic Buddhist story about the (non-)self.
Heraclitus: Union of Opposites, Change & Logos
Is Heraclitus the greatest philosopher no one talks about? And what did this thinker mean when he said the world is made of fire?
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.
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.