...nIcles .............................................................. 15 Stage one ................................................................... ........................................................................ 16 Stage Two ................................................................... .........................................................................23 Stage Three ................................................................. ...ntradicted everything his contempo- - Perhaps one of the best known Native American traditions is the Council Circle. Here, the members sit in a cir... ... persons, and even cab drivers. In Kabbalah, a giving degree is considered male and a receiving degree is considered female. Within each degree ther... ...ered female. Within each degree there are states in which it is acting as male or as female; hence, we sometimes refer to a certain degree as male,... ...h. The only two exceptions to this rule are the Crer r ator, who is always male, being the source, and Creation, which is always female, since she re... ...couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an... ...o the New England Journal of Medicine, “Annu- - ally, more than 46 million Americans, ages 15-54, suffer from depressive episodes.” And the Archives ...

...ued the ways of many great Kabbalists throughout the generations before them. The goal of this book is to assist individuals in confronting the first stages of the spiritual realm. This unique method of study, which encourages sharing this wisdom with others, not only helps overcome the trials and tribulations of everyday life, but initiates a process in which individuals ...

..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ft me with a sense of coldness, making me feel a total outsider watching a stage play without a beginning, middle or end, in which I could only be par... ...but it could as easily have been a New Guinea shaman telling her about the malevolent spirit of her dead grandfather. Or a Christian priest warning he... ..., and contributed to the remainder of the book as well, throughout all its stages of preparation. The Conclusion is in many ways a summary of what has... ...us cultures developed the early Hebrew reli- gious culture. In its initial stages Hebrew religious culture was organized along clan and village/city l... ...a role for women proved difficult. Buddhism was a child of its times, when male domination was even more prevalent and taken for granted than now. Ver... ...lace in the religious system determine their social status? The origins of male dominance are lost in the mists of time, proposed explanations are mer...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ...nd the ability to feel pain? Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche, and Aquinas) rejected the idea of animal rights. Th... ...sitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence on humans. Malebranche augmented this line of thinking by "proving" that an... ...and suffering, as we all know, are the exclusive outcomes of Adam's sins. Kant and Malebranche may have been wrong. Animals may be able to suffer a... ...these problems are averted. Therapeutic cloning has vast untapped - though at this stage still remote - potential to improve the lives of hundreds ... ...y deleterious. We can render a system dysfunctional by inhibiting or reversing any stage in the complex processes involved - or by preventing the e... ...s "how are the laws applied". If a bias exists, if a party is favoured it is at the stage of administering justice and the impartiality of the arbit...