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Religious Myths, Science and Society

Myths and symbols are systems for programming pre-industrial and pre-cientific societies. They programme static societies that go on for a very long time in fundamentally the same way. Programming static societies means programming them for no change, to exclude change. This sort of programming is not possible unless it is believed that things, including the absolute itself, are as the myths and symbols say they are.
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Melloni Sed de ser

Xavier Melloni. Sed de ser. Herder, 2013. 152 p.Reflexiones, poemas, breves textos en tono poético, para ser leídos sin prisas, meditados como invitaciones al silencio: “no siendo es cuando más somos”, … “portadores de la vida que la Vida nos…

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Serres Pulgarcita

Michel Serres. Pulgarcita. Gedisa, 2014. 160 p.A sus 84 años, Serres es capaz de volcarse lúcidamente hacia esa nueva generación de jóvenes que mueve rápidamente los pulgares por las pantallas y la educación que podría ayudarles, teniendo en cuenta que…

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When research and inner path become one

Centre Unesco de Catalunya. On Mystics: A congress. Barcelona, June 2001 (Each participant was asked to introduce himself in connection to the subject, his personal stand point on spirituality). I embarked on a study of humanity’s great religious traditions, from the perspective of the cultural conditions of the new situation. I started by studying the remoter cultural traditions, in order to avoid the interference of my own beliefs: Hinduism, Buddhism. As my research progressed I approached western religions, first Islam, then Judaism and finally the great Christian mystics. In this study my interest was centred in the depth of the message rather than questions of the doctrine or beliefs that were being expressed.
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