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Tag: religion

Life-Giving, Lethal, Prophetic
Art + Stories, World + People
Dreams and Visions, Fiction

Life-Giving, Lethal, Prophetic

The mythologies and meanings of water across history and various cultures seem to share some similarities – from its life-giving properties to the flood myth.
Tomasz Wiśniewski
Dukkha
Soul + Body
Good Mood

Dukkha

An author and practising Buddhist discusses his manyfold spiritual path – and how the path to liberation is, in fact, quite ordinary – in the third part of our new series about Buddhism.
Juliusz Strachota
How Psychedelics Help You “Die Before You Die”
Soul + Body, World + People
Science, Wellbeing

How Psychedelics Help You “Die Before You Die”

The heart of the religious ritual is mysticism, argues Brian Muraresku in "The Immortality Key."
Derek Beres
The White Lady Comes After Dark
Art + Stories, Soul + Body
Fiction, Good Mood

The White Lady Comes After Dark

In Latin America, the unique concept of death is a combination of Indigenous beliefs and those imported by the Spanish colonizers.
Maciej Wesołowski
Karma Doesn’t Work How Most People Think It Does
Soul + Body
Good Mood

Karma Doesn’t Work How Most People Think It Does

Eastern traditions have complex views on how karma affects your life.
Paul Ratner
The Lady of Life and Death
Art + Stories
Experiences

The Lady of Life and Death

To some, she was known as Magna Mater; to many others, she was known as Cybele. She is, of course, the Mother Goddess of the ancient world.
Anna Arno
On Freedom
Soul + Body
Good Mood

On Freedom

The right thing to do is to be so totally free from desire that you can choose, that you are always able to choose: to have or not to have. Then you are really free.
Osho
A Time to Shed Our Scales
Art + Stories, World + People
Dreams and Visions, Opinions

A Time to Shed Our Scales

Father Maciej Zięba of the Polish Catholic Church talks about the difficulties of the pandemic, dealing with change, and his experiences in the Solidarity movement of the 1980s.
Kamil Bałuk
The Para-Scientific Popularity of Aura
World + People
Science

The Para-Scientific Popularity of Aura

Aura is depicted in a variety of art and myths; it is also described by adherents of esotericism. But can it be proven scientifically?
Tomasz Wiśniewski
The Dark Side of the Sun
Art + Stories
Fiction

The Dark Side of the Sun

Light and darkness, that which is clearly illuminated or lies hidden in the shadows, have both literal and figurative meanings in mythology and religion.
Adam Aduszkiewicz