Essays on Spiritualism

According to Christopher Bader, Joe Baker and Frederick Carson Mencken in Paranormal America: Ghost encounters, UFO sightings, Bigfoot hunts, and other curiosities in religion and culture (2011) research shows that “more than 2/3 of Americans have paranormal beliefs with this being manifested in their penchant for movies with paranormal themes. This statistic is not alarming since evidently the paranormal and the supernatural have been a part of human culture since the beginning of time. In fact, in most religions paranormal experiences are either commonplace, or show up without alarm to the persons practicing that particular religion. While persons without ...

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The modern bureaucratic system replaced the previous patriarchal system which had some flaws that slowed down the further development of the society. The administrative bodies make decisions and realize them, resorting to enforcement matters when it’s needed, within their authority. The bureaucracy tries to satisfy the needs of those people that it administrates, while those people are taking care of other things: production of material and spiritual goods, bringing up the new generation, health care, and their own professional and personal development. The bureaucracy acts in behalf of those people who empowered it to manage the public affairs. ...

Executive Summary

Mythology typically elucidates historical events of ancient characters to represent beliefs, practices, natural phenomenon and institution that are related to religious beliefs and rights. The mythology had an immense impact on art and literature during the Decadence era as it gave rise to the concept of Symbolism in Europe. Decadence was an era towards the end of Eighteen Century that emerged during the industrial revolution in Europe. Decadence is heavily linked with symbolism. Symbolism links the ancient mythology with imagination to form art and literature. Symbolism is an artistic and literary movement that emerged in the group of few ...

The Mayan apocalyptic predictions of 2012 have long since passed, and civilization has essentially moved on from its portents of doom and gloom. However, with Gregg Braden’s Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, elements of self-help spiritualism and pseudo-math are combined to create a work of New Age spiritualism that, while certainly illuminating to the converted, will not successfully convince those looking for philosophies to the universe that require greater rigor. Looking at the book through an air of skepticism, Fractal Time fails to convince, poorly using its own research and loosely connecting information together ...

Saturday, 8 November 2014

Salvation Death Repentance Every religious book or scripture is a guide to the human being to follow the proper path. What is the proper path then? It is a path, which leads the person towards the Ultimate Truth, the path that breaks the chain between a soul and a body. This path leads us toward the phase of non-duality. The attainment of this phase is possible only after leaving the body and the purification of the soul. The purification of the soul is possible through good deeds, virtues and your deep faith in God and Jesus Christ. All religious scriptures of the ...

There are a lot of famous and unfamiliar names that can be associated with the field of naturalism. A naturalist is someone who is considered to be an expert in natural history and that his or her expertise is practiced and applied through the course of art or literature (Loudon). One of the most famous naturalists in the world is Charles Darwin, who we know as the father of Evolution. Additionally, some of the famous naturalists are George Culver, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joy Adamson, Alexander Von Humboldt, Henry David Thoreau, Steve Irwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. This paper will discuss the ...

Tuesday June 10

The three revolutions that started Modern Age are the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution. 2. What is the Enlightenment, or Age of Reason?

Enlightenment is characterized by a shift to a more rational and scientific approach to religious, political, social, and economic issues.

3. Neoclassicism: Oath of Horatii – Name 3 characteristics

The three characteristics were clarity of form; sober colors; and shallow space.

4. Romanticism: What is the “attitude of this movement”? Use either The Third of May or The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons and state something about light, paint application and the subject matter. Romanticism involves imagination and emotion as more valuable than reason. It also perceives that nature is less corrupt than civilization, and that human beings are ...

Talking of globalization, most people tend to think only in the line of economic globalization. They do not relate globalization to culture and language that is the most rampant aspect of globalization in the contemporary world. According to David (2010), globalization has remarkably increased flexibility in the native non-Western cultures across the world. Various non-Western cultures have gone through globalization particularly in Japan. The first native non-Western culture in Japan is that will be looked at is the cultural language (Bachika, 2008). The other globalized native non-Western culture is food culture in Japan. Religion as culture in Japan is ...

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Modern science and medicine have influenced the healthcare industry in many ways. Modern science believes in the intervention rather than focusing on the spiritual factors that are associated with the disease or illness. It is important that the modern medicine realizes the importance of spiritual healing. With advancements in spiritual healing over the last 3 decades, spirituality has been introduced in modern intervention. General physicians and healthcare professionals are seeking more focusing on the spiritual needs of patients. Clinical studies have found that spirituality when combined with modern medicine improves the quality of life and increases the survival rate ...

Introduction

When we think of blues songs, we relate them to misfortunes, break ups or other bad events. This is because blues is known to have originated from a bad period. Delta blues or Mississippi delta blues is a musical form that emerged in early 20th century in Mississippi. However, this music originates from Africa since slaves were captured from Africa and forced to work in plantations in the South. Slaves used music as a way of escape from the torture and oppression they faced. Slaves would sing to their favorite delta blues as they work in the plantations. Slavery and religion seem ...

Hamlet is of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. The main character is Hamlet who is the Prince of Denmark. Hamlet is the son of the late King Hamlet. The spirit of his father appears to him in a dream and informs him on the causes of his death. He is informed that his uncle King Claudius killed him and hastily married Gertrude ‘King hamlets widow’ for him to resume the throne. Claudius had killed king Hamlet by poisoning him in the ear. Hamlet decides to obey his father’s spirit by killing King Claudius to get his revenge. He gets into a ...

The common element in Kongo burial practices is the relationship of the living to their ancestors and recently deceased relatives. An ancient, syncretic religion, its absorption of Catholic influences and elements of various African traditions enhanced the tendency of idiosyncratic belief systems to develop among the individual villages. This diffusion of belief and practice facilitated the spread of a diverse and versatile religion from Africa to the New World where it has exhibited remarkable coherence in the expression of burial practices. The trans-Atlantic slave trade strengthened the emotional need to connect with the past, not only with one’s departed ...