Tag: Ioan Petru Culianu
Colin Wilson & Jacques Bergier: that is, the conspiracy of history
Civilization as a conspiracy; history as a trap; an endemic psychic vampirism that has seized an entire civilization: these are the burning themes of two of the key texts of the Alternative Reality between the 60s and 70s: "The parasites of the mind" by Colin Wilson andย "The cursed books" byย Jacques Berger.
Ioan P. Culianu: "game" and Magic in the Renaissance
Review of the recent Lindau issue containing notes on the Romanian philosopher and historian of religions on the Renaissance ars magica (Serious Iocari. Science and art in the thought of the Renaissance, Lindau, Turin, 2017).
Ioan P. Culianu: the Hyperborean shamanism of ancient Greece
cover: Ilyas Phaizulline, "Orpheus at the Empire of the Dead"
Introduction
curated by Marco Maculotti
When it comes to "shamanism" [I], we usually tend to think of the Siberian one [II], from which the term itself derives, or to the Himalayan one, which often synchronizes with the Buddhist and / or Hindu tradition, or to that of the native populations of North America, Mexico and the Andes, as well as that of the Australian aborigines. More rarely, the importance of shamanic practices for the Indo-European peoples is emphasized, although the classical sources are not poor in this regard.