Tag: Marius Schneider

β€œThe physics of angels”: dialogue between a visionary biologist and a rebellious theologian

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Can modern physics dialogue with the theological and mystical tradition to shed light on the ancient question of angels? This is the question on which "The physics of angels" is based, a text-dialogue between the rebel theologian Matthew Fox, and the biologist Rupert Sheldrake, known for the theory of morphic resonance, focused on the analysis of some of the most illuminating texts of three Christian mystics: Dionigi Aeropagita, Saint Thomas Aquinas and Hildegard of Bingen.

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Marius Schneider: "The gods are songs"

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The peculiar archetypal-symbolic vision of the German philologist and musicologist Marius Schneider is splendidly enclosed in this first chapter of "La musica primitiva" (1960) in which the divine forces are seen, through the meticulous analysis of the origin myths of the most varied traditions, primarily as "sound powers".

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