June 2018 – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

HP Lovecraft: "Poetry and the Gods"

Published on: June 29 2018 Last updated on: August 24 2019 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Extracts, Italian Literature

Written in collaboration with Anna H. Crofts, "Poetry and the Gods" (1920) combines the Lovecraftian ideal of the Poetic Imagination with romantic devotion to the ancient Gods.

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The emanations of the "Dark Satellite"

Published on: June 25 2018 Last updated on: December 11 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, History of Religions

Notes on the dark side of Selene symbolism, from Plutarch's "De facie in orbe lunae" to René Guénon and Stanislas de Guaita

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On possession in Hinduism

Published on: June 20 2018 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Marco Scarinci Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Shamanism, History of Religions

Brief excursus - corroborated by the author's experience in the field - on the phenomenon of possession in Hinduism (both devotional and yogic-tantric) and in related Shamanism

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"Ancient hypocrisy" and "modern hypocrisy": the mask and the "daimon"

Published on: June 15 2018 Last updated on: 20 September 2018 Written by: Daniele Capuano Categorized into: Anthropology, Philosophy, History of Religions

Nine glosses (and an appendix) on the intimate meaning of “hypocrisy”, on the mask as a form of sacred discipline, on the personification of Yeats's “daimon” or anti-self; and again on the Rite, on the “Fall”, and on Love.

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Shamanic elements in the religions of the Himalayan area and in the Indian sub-continent

Published on: June 11 2018 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Richard Confalon Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Shamanism, History of Religions

An overview of rites and beliefs of shamanic origin in the Indo-Buddhist macro-area of Central Asia and sub-continental India

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Who is hiding behind the mask? Visits from Elsewhere and the paraphysical hypothesis

Published on: June 6 2018 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, folklore, Mito, History of Religions

The examination of the theories of John Keel and Jacques Vallée based on the "paraphysical hypothesis", the "superspectrum" and the "thermostrate effect" allows us a reflection on the Other World and a parallelism with the cosmographic model and the "antichtōn »By Filolao

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From Siberian Shamanism to Yungdrung Bön: a hypothesis on the Prehistoric Bön of Eurasia

Published on: June 1 2018 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Marco Scarinci Categorized into: Anthropology, Shamanism, History of Religions

Retrospective on the shamanism of Central and Northern Asia, starting with Mircea Eliade, and on its 'correspondences' with the ancient cult complex of the Prehistoric Bon of Eurasia, not to be confused with the Yungdrung Bön from the XNUMXth century

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