Posted in Z, tagged belief, cults, gay, Greece, homosexual, myth, mythology, pagan, queer, religion, same-sex, worship, zeus on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
Athens, Greece Zeus Temple 2007
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Zeus The son of the Titan Cronus and Titaness Rhea, Zeus is the chief of the second generation Greek gods, usually arrayed with thunderbolts and an eagle.
Zeus had numerous offspring with several different goddesses, the most famous being Aphrodite.
He apparently had amorous relations with his young male cup-bearer, [...]
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Posted in A, tagged adherents, belief, canada, census, courts, cults, demographics, earth, Eileen Barker, faith, globe, government, humanity, jurisprudence, law, new religious movements, planet, population, records, religion, religion and science, science, statistics, uncertainty, world on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Adherents of all Religions It is difficult to get accurate figures for the number of adherents in each world religion.
Religion being a very personal issue, often central to one’s self-image, it’s conceivable that many people don’t wish to report their true beliefs to a proverbial Big Brother and thus will check “other” or “personal” on [...]
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Posted in A, tagged afterlife, anthropology, archaeology, belief, death, eternity, infinity, israel, life, life after death, NDE, NDEs, neanderthalensis, near death experience, paranormal, religion, salvation, soul, spain, spirit, spiritism, spiritual on April 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Fayum Mummy of Artemidorus
Originally uploaded by mharrsch
Afterlife The belief that the spirit or soul continues after death.
This belief arguably dates back to prehistoric times (115,000 – 200,000 years ago) where evidence points to Homo neanderthalensis in Israel and Spain buried with food items, tools and possibly weapons in hand, often in fetal position facing sunrise [...]
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Posted in A, tagged afterlife, agape, belief, bread, bread and wine, c. s. lewis, catholic, Christian, communion, Eucharist, feast, Greece, heaven, Holy Communion, jesus christ, life, love, religion, rome, sacrament, sacraments, soul, spirit, wine on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Agape In literary circles the Greek term agapē (Latin: caritas) refers to the ideal of universal love, particularly, charitable Christian love among brothers and sisters of the human family.
As C. S. Lewis suggests in The Four Loves (1960), this is distinct from matrimonial, emotional, passionate-erotic and friendly love.
For many Christians, agape also refers to the [...]
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Posted in A, tagged afterlife, agnostic, agnosticism, belief, doubt, faith, gnosis, God, heaven, hell, ignorance, knowledge, religion, skepticism on April 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Militant
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Agnosticism In the strongest sense of the term agnosticism refers to the belief that we can never know if God, the afterlife, heaven and hell exist because all human experiences, including internal ones, are said to be subjective.
By way of contrast ‘weak agnosticism’ maintains a “maybe, maybe not” position that, until some kind [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Anthroposophy, belief, blind faith, buddhist, cayce, ESP, faith, graff, hindu, insight, intuition, jung, myth, new age, prediction, psi, psychic, religion, remote viewing, science, scientism, spirit, Steiner, targ, theosophy on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
£20 Holograms
Originally uploaded by austinevan
Akashic Records Derived from the Hindu (Sanskrit) and Buddhist (Pali) understanding of akasha (= ether, subtle space, the forms of space), the Akashic Records is a term used by Theosophy and Anthroposophy to denote a cosmic memory bank of all that ever was.
The term is often used uncritically by believers, not [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Adler, alien, Aliens, belief, channeling, childhood, Clairvoyance, delusions, demons, ESP, et, evil, fantasies, freud, genetics, jung, madness, medium, mental illness, mysteries, neurosis, nutrition, paranormal, parapsychology, Philosophy, possession, precognition, prophecy, psi, psychiatry, psychic, psychology, science, sociology, space, star trek, strange, stress, synchronicity, trance, trauma, ufo, unexplained, urban legend on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Alien Trio 2
Originally uploaded by bbaltimore
Alien Possession Theory (APT)
A corrupt tree cannot bear good fruit (Luke 6:43)
APT considers the possibility, commonly found within science fiction, that hostile extraterrestrials (ETs) from another world or realm may have a negative effect on psychologically vulnerable human individuals through the use of psi.
This alien invasion motif does not [...]
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Posted in A, tagged Allah, belief, God, Islam, religion, spirit on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque
- Interior
Originally uploaded by baraneh
Allah The Arabic word for God.
After a revelation given to the prophet Mohammed on Mount Hira, the name Allah referred to a single God.
Previously the Arabic term Allah designated a supreme God among other gods.
Moslems believe that Mohammed is the greatest among many prophets to have walked the [...]
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candle without wind
Originally uploaded by topher76
Anatman (Pali anatta: “no self” 
This is a Theraveda Buddhist theory stipulating the non-existence of the soul.
Aspects of anatman theory resemble but also differ from the idea of reincarnation.
In anatman theory, the temporary seat of consciousness is said to be exterminated like a candle flame at death, to be re-lit as [...]
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Posted in A, tagged afterlife, ancestor, belief, cults, heaven, religion, spirit, veneration, worship on April 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Shrines to the Ancestors
Originally uploaded bythemanwithsalthair
Ancestor Cults [ancestor, from Latin antecessor, from ante, before + cedere, to go]
Various traditions around the world venerate and pray to deceased ancestors.
These so-called ‘cults’ believe that familial spirits come to aid in daily life by bestowing spiritual power, protection, wisdom and even practical guidance through individuals acting as [...]
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