Western Esotericism - 8 unexpected facts

 

Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality

Fact: Esoteric spirituality is a type of belief system that focuses on an individual person’s specific efforts to reach deep personal spiritual understanding.

 

Citation: https://spiru.com/esotericism-uncover-spiritual-mysteries/

Fact: Esoteric spirituality is often referred to as "hidden" or "secret" knowledge.

 

Citation: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26571892

Fact: Esoteric spirituality focuses on understanding the relationship between the spiritual and the physical world.

 

Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898496/

Fact: Esoteric spirituality can help an individual connect with their deeper spiritual self.

 

Citation: https://consciouswater.com/blogs/blog/psychology-spirituality-a-complimentary-relationship

Fact: Esoteric spirituality can lead to a deeper understanding of oneself and the world around them.

 

Citation: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8651234/

Fact: Esoteric spirituality can increase an individual's overall happiness and well-being.

 

Citation: https://digitaloccultlibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/practitioners-guide/

Fact: Those interested in exploring esoteric spirituality should be willing to devote time and effort to learning about it.

 

Citation: https://thelife.com/10-spiritual-questions-and-their-answers

Fact: Esoteric spirituality is not for those who are looking for simple answers or a quick fix.

 

Abusch, Tzvi (2002). Mesopotamian Witchcraft: Towards a History and Understanding of Babylonian Witchcraft Beliefs and Literature. Abusch, I. Tzvi; Toorn, Karel Van Der (1999). 

 

Mesopotamian Magic: Textual, Historical, and Interpretative Perspectives. Brill. ISBN 978-90-5693-033-2. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

 

"Babylonian Demon Bowls". Michigan Library. Lib.umich.edu. Retrieved 2013-09-06.

 

Bell, H.I., Nock, A.D., Thompson, H., Magical Texts From A Bilingual Papyrus In The British Museum, Proceedings of The British Academy, Vol, XVII, London, p 24.

 

Brier, Bob; Hobbs, Hoyt (2009). Ancient Egypt: Everyday Life in the Land of the Nile. New York: Sterling. ISBN 978-1-4549-0907-1.

 

Karenga, M, (2006), University of Sankore Press

 

Teeter, E., (2011), Religion and Ritual in Ancient Egypt, Cambridge University Press

 

Andrews, C., (1994), Amulets of Ancient Egypt, University of Texas Press

 

Mark, Joshua (2017). "Magic in Ancient Egypt". World History Encyclopedia.

 

W. Gunther Plaut, David E. Stein. The Torah: A Modern Commentary. Union for Reform Judaism, 2004. ISBN 0-8074-0883-2

 

"A Little Hebrew". Retrieved 2014-03-26.

 

Elber, Mark. The Everything Kabbalah Book: Explore This Mystical Tradition--From Ancient Rituals to Modern Day Practices, Adams Media, 2006. ISBN 1-59337-546-8

 

Person, Hara E. The Mitzvah of Healing: An Anthology of Jewish Texts, Meditations, Essays, Personal Stories, and Rituals,Union for Reform Judaism, 2003. ISBN 0-8074-0856-5

Sanhedrin 67a

 

Belser, Julia Watts. "Book Review: Gideon Bohak, Ancient Jewish Magic". Academia. Retrieved 9 July 2021.

 

Bohak, Gideon (2011). "2". Ancient Jewish Magic: A History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 70–142. ISBN 978-0-521-18098-6. Retrieved 15 May 2020.

 

Clinton Wahlen Jesus and the impurity of spirits in the Synoptic Gospels 2004

 

Book of Deuteronomy 18: 9–10

 

Exodus 22:17

 

(2012). Rethinking Greek Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521110921.

 

Copenhaver, Brian P. (2015). Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107070523.

 

Price, Simon (1999). Religions of the Ancient Greeks (Reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521388672.

 

Hinnells, John (2009). The Penguin Handbook of Ancient Religions. London: Penguin. p. 313. ISBN 978-0141956664.

 

Betz, Hans Dieter (1986). The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation, Including the Demotic Spells. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. xii–xlv. ISBN 978-0226044446.

 

Lewy, Hans (1978). Oracles and Theurgy: Mysticism, Magic and Platonism in the Later Roman Empire. Paris: Études Augustiniennes. p. 439. ISBN 9782851210258.

 

Betz, Hans (1996). The Greek Magical Papyri in Translation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.ISBN 978-0226044477.

 

Drijvers, Jan Willem; Hunt, David (1999). The Late Roman World and Its Historian: Interpreting Ammianus Marcellinus (1st ed.). London: Routledge –. ISBN 9780415202718. 

 

Flint, Valerie I.J. (1990). The Rise of Magic in Early Medieval Europe (1st ed.). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691031651.

 

Kieckhefer, Richard (June 1994). "The Specific Rationality of Medieval Magic". The American Historical Review. 99 (3): 813–818. doi:10.2307/2167771. JSTOR 2167771. PMID 11639314.

 

Josephy, Marcia Reines (1975). Magic & Superstition in the Jewish Tradition: An Exhibition Organized by the Maurice Spertus Museum of Judaica. Spertus College of Judaica Press

 

Lindberg, David C. (2007). The Beginnings of Western Science: The European Scientific Tradition in Philosophical, Religious, and Institutional Context, 600 B.C. to A.D. 1450 (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

 

Gilchrist, Roberta (1 November 2008). "Magic for the Dead? The Archaeology of Magic in Later Medieval Burials" (PDF). Medieval Archaeology. 

 

Gilchrist, Roberta (2012). Medieval Life: Archaeology and the Life Course (Reprint ed.). Woodbridge: Boydell Press.

 

El-Zein, Amira (2009). Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

 

Lebling, Robert (2010). Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar. I.B.Tauris.

 

Nasr, Seyyed Hossein; Dagli, Caner K.; Dakake, Maria Massi; Lumbard, Joseph E.B.; Rustom, Mohammed (2015). The Study Quran; A New Translation and Commentary. Harper Collins.

 

Uncovering the Ancient Origins of Gnosticism: A Guide for Modern-Day Gnostics

 

Citation: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/Gnosticism

Fact: Gnosticism is a religious and philosophical movement that has been gaining popularity in recent years.

 

Citation: https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/rosicrucian-egyptian-museum-alchemy/

Fact: It is based on the belief that knowledge is power and that knowledge can be used to unlock the secrets of the universe.

 

Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism

Fact: The earliest known forms of Gnosticism can be traced back to the first and second centuries CE.

 

Citation: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1196075

Fact: Gnosticism was heavily influenced by ancient religious traditions, such as Zoroastrianism, Mithraism, and Manichaeism.

 

Citation: https://iep.utm.edu/neoplato/

Fact: Gnosticism was also influenced by ancient philosophical traditions, such as Neoplatonism and Hermeticism.

 

Citation: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00332925.2012.677606

Fact: Gnosticism was closely related to various esoteric traditions, such as Hermeticism and Kabbalah.

 

Citation: https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/g/gnosticism.html

Fact: Gnosticism was also closely related to magic.

 

Did the Buddha practice magic?

 

Citation: https://academic.oup.com/book/8994/chapter/155495125

Fact: Science tends to reject magic as superstition and primitive thinking.

 

Citation: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2018/06/impact-of-science-and-technology-on-global-economic-growth-mokyr

Fact: Technology has advanced greatly in the last two centuries due to science.

 

Citation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natphil-ren/

Fact: Magic was understood as a part of the organic model of reality in ancient cultures.

 

Citation: https://www.amazon.com/Clockwork-Universe-Newton-Society-Modern/dp/006171951X

Fact: The rise of modern science in the 17th century created a new clockwork model of the universe.

 

Citation: https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07777-2.html

Fact: In the 20th century, a psychological dimension was added to the explanations of magic.

 

Citation: https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-world-after-the-revolution-physics-in-the-second-half-of-the-twentieth-century/

Fact: Quantum physics has shifted beyond 19th century physics.

 

Citation: https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/religion/overview/witchcraft/

Fact: The Christian Church has historically believed that spirits and demons are necessary to achieve magic.

 

Citation: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=c6ee6a83abb76559decb913f39b5feb6e02581a5

Fact: The Vinaya has several narratives which detail the Buddha's alleged miraculous and magical abilities.

 

Citation: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Buddhism/Vajrayana-Tantric-or-Esoteric-Buddhism

Fact: The Mahasiddhas spread Vajrayana Buddhism in India and Tibet.

 

Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracles_of_Gautama_Buddha

Fact: Monks are thought to possess supernatural abilities acquired through yoga and meditation.

 

Citation: https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/budfree.htm

Fact: Some modern authors reject the idea of mystical and spiritual abilities possessed by the Buddha and those who followed him.

 

Citation: https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/blog/magic-in-the-modern-age-do-you-still-believe-in-magic/

Fact: Magic is still present in our world today.

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Have they been lying to you about Shamanism and its History?

 

Citation: https://www.maineshaman.com/blog/shamanic-healing/shamanic-healing-for-chronic-illness

Fact: Shamanism has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.

 

Citation: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23448783_A_12000-year-old_Shaman_Burial_from_the_Southern_Levant_Israel

Fact: The earliest acknowledged archaeological record of a shaman was located in an excavation from a burial site in Israel, from around 12,000 years ago.

 

Citation: https://jeremiahstanghini.com/2013/08/05/the-history-of-shamanism-a-brief-overview-of-shamanism-part-1/

Fact: Upper Paleolithic cave paintings show evidence for shamanic practices extending back at least 30,000 years.

 

Citation: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1556-3537.2009.01016.x

Fact: Masters of Ahpay Amah claim that animism and the use of the altered state of mind have existed for at least 250,000 years.

 

Citation: https://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/contributions/pdf/CNAS_02_01_11.pdf

Fact: The term "shaman" has its roots in the Tungus language and originates from the word 'saman,' which translates to "one who is excited, moved, raised".

 

Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism

Fact: The definition of shaman is related to some of the various roles that shamans take on, such as healing and participating in an altered state of consciousness.

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Graham Harvey; Robert J. Wallis (5 February 2007). Historical Dictionary of Shamanism. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-6459-7.

 

Montague Summers (1928). The Vampire: His Kith and Kin. University Books –. ISBN 978-1-60506-566-3.

 

Julia Chan (8 June 2016). "Bobohizans: The shamans of Sabah teeter between old and new worlds". The Malay Mail. Retrieved 11 November 2016.

 

"Universiteit Leiden, Hanno E. Lecher". Archived from the original on 21 March 2012. Retrieved 6 June 2015.

 

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Gros, Stéphane (2010-05-31). "Aurélie Névot, Comme le sel, je suis le cours de l'eau: le chamanisme à écriture des Yi du Yunnan (Chine) (Like salt, I follow the current: The literate Shamanism of the Yi of Yunnan)". Retrieved 6 June 2015.

 

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Hangartner, judith (May 2006). "The resurgence of Darhad shamanism: Legitimisation Strategies of Rural Practitioners in mongolia". Tsantsa. 11: 111–14

 

Hesse, Klaus (1987). "On the History of Mongolian Shamanism in Anthropological Perspective".

 

Shimamura, Ippei (2014). The Roots seekers: Shamanism and Ethnicity Among the Mongol Buryats. Kanagawa, Japan. 

 

Balogh, Matyas. "Contemporary Shamanisms in Mongolia." Asian Ethnicity 11.2 (2010): 229–38.

Noll, Richard. "Mongol shamans summer solstice fire ritual 21 June 2017". YouTube. Retrieved 4 July 2017.

 

William Henry Scott (1992). Looking For The Prehispanic Filipino and Other Essays in Philippine History. New Day Publishers.

 

William Henry Scott (1994). Barangay: Sixteenth Century Philippine Culture and Society. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press. ISBN 978-971-550-135-4.

 

Perry Gil S. Mallari (16 November 2013). "The complementary roles of the Mandirigma and the Babaylan". The Manila Times. Retrieved 5 July 2018.

 

McCoy, V. R. (2018). Shaman-the Dawn's People. BookBaby. ISBN 9781732187405.

 

Emma Helen Blair; James Alexander Robertson; Edward Gaylord Bourne, eds. (1904). The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803. Vol. 38 (1674–1683). The Arthur H. Clark Company. 

 

United States Philippine Commission, 1900-1916 (1905). Census of the Philippine Islands, Taken Under the Director of the Philippine Commission in the Year 1903. Vol. I: Geography, History, and Population. United States Bureau of the Census.

 

Agnes M. Brazal (1996). "Inculturation: An Interpretative Model". In Jozef Lamberts (ed.). Liturgy and Inculturation: Introduction. Studies in Liturgy. Vol. 77. Peeters. 

 

Rawski, Evelyn S. (1998), The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions, Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press.

 

Hoppál, Mihály (1994). Sámánok, lelkek és jelképek (in Hungarian). Budapest: Helikon Kiadó. 

 

Noll, Richard (January 2009). "The Last Shaman of the Orqen of Northeast China". Shaman: Journal of the International Society for Shamanistic Research.

 

Hoppál, Mihály (2005). Sámánok Eurázsiában (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 

 

Plato's dialogue between Young Socrates and the Foreigner 

 

Irenaeus' comparative adjective gnostikeron "more learned", evidently cannot mean "more Gnostic" as a name.

 

On the Detection and Overthrow of Knowledge Falsely So Called Book 1. Ch.3

The texts commonly attributed to the Thomasine Traditions are:

The Hymn of the Pearl, or, the Hymn of Jude Thomas the Apostle in the Country of Indians

The Gospel of Thomas

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas

The Acts of Thomas

The Book of Thomas: The Contender Writing to the Perfect

The Psalms of Thomas

The Apocalypse of Thomas

 

Encyclopædia Britannica

 

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