Tagged with Mythologies

"Ascensionism" is the belief that humanity is evolving into a higher reality. How can we de-mysticize "Ascensionism," bring it back from the cosmos and ground it on the Earth? (more)

God is dead, long live the Alien. Faith in something that has passed (Jesus, Mohammed) has been replaced by hope for something to come. However, this something comes not to replace our reality (earthly paradise) but to expand it (interstellar civilization). The Other is a possible world. (more)

Money could be seen as an exteriorized soul to be locked away so that our bodies acquire magical invulnerability. But it need not be hidden away -- it can be circulated and "beget" itself endlessly in usury. It constitutes humanity's one really totally successful experiment in magic: (more)

Whether a naked Sheela-na-gig flaunting her enlarged vagina or a Madonna protecting her swollen belly with layers of reticent robes, feminine icons defy our inclination to identify the one "correct" reading of an image. They require us to employ multiple readings, a skill that is vital to feminist inquiry and, perhaps, to our very survival. (more)

To his many readers, Mircea Eliade is known as a visionary historian of religion and the occult. Few are aware that in his early career, Eliade was a fascist propagandist in his homeland of Romania. (more)