Tag: Reincarnation

Live video: Alexandra David-Nรฉel, immortality and reincarnation in Tibet, India and China โ€“ with Matteo Martini

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On Monday 3 April we will have the pleasure of hosting Matteo Martini on our YouTube channel, curator of the essay by Alexandra David-Nรฉel Immortality and reincarnation. Doctrines and practices of China, Tibet and India, whose Italian edition was recently published by Aurora Boreale editions.

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The Mythos and the Logos: Greek wisdom in the Platonic myths

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Knowing oneself and the world of ideas through myth, or, in other words, reaching the Logos through Mythos: this is the main idea that supports Greek wisdom, as Plato has divinely illustrated in his works. The myth of the cave, the myth of Er, that of the charioteer and of Eros show us that in what we call "reality" nothing is certain, everything is in constant motion: the truth lies outside the fire, beyond out of the cave and of the mind itself, therefore in the world of ideas, which Plato calls "hyperuranium"; that is, "beyond the sky".

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Shamanic initiation and the ways of the afterlife in the North American tradition

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Similarly to the European tradition, also the North American one recognizes in the period of the winter solstice the "gateway" to the world of the dead and of the spirits and, therefore, the suitable time for youth initiations and masked ceremonies, including the Iroquois one of the โ€œFalse Facesโ€ and the kwakiutl one of the โ€œCannibal Spiritโ€. These beliefs and practices, as well as the analysis of shamanic journeys to the "Village of the Spirits", allow us to understand the doctrines of the native peoples of North America on the various souls that make up the human being and on the relationship entertained by the living with the spirit world. .

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