Tag: Tapas

Auras and inner lights

Published on: Last updated on: Written by: Categorized into: Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology, History, History of Religions

Since the perception of a light characterizes the apparition of the divine, the luminous has always been associated with the numinous. The great dilemma that Walter Benjamin proposes is whether the visual impression is determined exclusively by the biology of the human eye or is also characterized by cultural and historical specificities. This contribution seeks to reconstruct how the experience of light in the West has changed over the centuries in intensity and suddenness and how its modes of manifestation have changed.

Keep reading…

The "tapas", the libido and the victory over necessity

Published on: Last updated on: Written by: Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Philosophy, Mito

The stages of the development of consciousness are contained in the myth, which leads to the conscious realization of the individual destiny, the cure as a re-actualization of the myth becomes mythbiography in a path that from Jung, through Neumann and Bernhard reaches Romano MΓ dera.

Keep reading…