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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

...THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION by DONALD BROADRIBB With contributions by Marilyn H... ...contributions by Marilyn Holly and Norma Lyons Second Edition Published by the Author York, Western Australia 2006 The first edition of this book was... ... And Vision Personal Postscript On Dreams Acknowledgments The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238 The People The Dreaming Totems And Incr... ...ntellectual reasoning. His mentor, Socrates, had known the vox dei (divine voice within) which gave him internal direction. But, as Plato reports Socr... ...rates as saying, he doubted whether anyone else could experience that same voice, and sadly I feared that he was right. 1 1. Socrates is reported by P... ...me again in this book, particularly in the chapters on American Indian and Australian Aboriginal beliefs. Analysis “in Jung’s manner” is not, as popul... ...ts are most important: 1. The universe is eternal. It undergoes an endless series of cycles of birth, progress, decay and annihilation, a series of cy... ... specific terms. For much of Buddhism, as for much of Hinduism, there is a series of procedures collectively known as yoga and claimed to make it poss... ... that we ourselves will not die. Jung made the same point, commenting in a TV interview: Well, you see, I have treated many old people, and it’s quite...

...ction. Whether as children we were taught at a church Sunday school or some other religious institution, or weabsorbed simple social assumptions from the culture we live in, none of us grow up in a religious vacuum. Through most of history the majority of people appear to have been reasonably satisfied with the religious culture which went hand in hand with their social st...

...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...

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