Sentences with phrase «mystical belief»

Kepler in the 16th century justified his shattering empirical discovery that planetary motion was ellipitcal rather than circular by the essentially medieval and mystical belief that the circle represented the spiritual and the straight line the material, so the combination of the two in an ellipse showed the planets «striving to reach the divine ideal».

Religion is the last hope of under educated people to hold on to some mystical belief of a better life after death.

Hitler was brought up a Christian and it is unclear where his beliefs lay as he aged (including mystical beliefs).

Many people think not; and to account for this slackening impulse in the highest and most complete of human mystical beliefs they argue that the evangelical flowering is ill - adapted to the critical and materialist climate of the modern world.

Yep, b / c mystical beliefs don't count when you work for Doctors Without Borders.

Later she studied Tibetan art and religion, extending the mystical beliefs she had held from an early age (her father, like Mondrian, was a Theosophist).

Jewish mystical beliefs of the Kabbalah,...

This Iranian - born English artist, a 1994 Turner Prize nominee, produces paintings that look like exercises in late modernist abstraction but are said to embody Sufi mystical beliefs.

[21] Obeah describes a system of spiritual and mystical beliefs practiced in Jamaica and other black communities of the West Indies.

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Left unquestioned and unchecked, magical, mystical, supernatural beliefs can cause those who believe them to act irrationally regarding public and governmental activities - and that affects us.

VERY OFTEN TRUE STATEMENTS ARE POSTED HERE, BUT THEY ARE CATEGORICALLY DENIED BY THOSE WHO HAVE AN AGENDA TO PROMOTE ONLY BELIEF IN THINGS THAT ARE NOT MYSTICAL, NOT SUPERNATURAL, AND ARE MEASURABLE ONLY SCIENTIFICALLY AND INTERPRETED ONLY THROUGH 21TH CENTURY WESTERN CULTURAL FILTERS.

Experimenting for a year to stay away from such abstractions and declaring your beliefs (mystical or fundamental), could only help a person feel the moments through the layers abstract beliefs.

Scholasticism Theology moved from the monastery to the university Western theology is an intellectual discipline rather than a mystical pursuit Western theology is over-systematized Western Theology is systematized, based on a legal model rather than a philosophical model Western theologians debate like lawyers, not like rabbis Reformation Catholic reformers were excommunicated and formed Protestant churches Western churches become guarantors of theological schools of thought Western church membership is often contingent on fine points of doctrine Some western Christians believe that definite beliefs are incompatible with tolerance The atmosphere arose in which anyone could start a church The legal model for western theology intensifies despite the rediscovery of the East

occult əˈkəlt noun (the occult) supernatural, mystical, or magical beliefs, practices, or phenomena: a secret society to study alchemy and the occult.

Thus, the question arises, will they incarnate more historically than before their own belief in the «mystical body» of Christ, and the collective destiny of the fully redeemed or «liberated» human race?

A myth involves belief in supernatural beings and mystical events.

Respected neurologists such as Andrew Newberg of the University of Pennsylvania, along with colleagues Eugene D'Aquili and Vince Rause (authors of Why God Won't Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief), say not only that we're wired to dream but that we are wired to have unifying mystical experiences.

The idea that mysticism floats free is something that Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other religions would react against because their mystical teachings are a part of the complex of being a Christian, Jew or Muslim, and they coexist with practices, beliefs, institutions and so forth.

Although they have often been considered as unorthodox by the leaders of Islam, their attempts to provide a rational basis for Islamic beliefs and a mystical basis for Islamic worship have for centuries enriched and stimulated the Muslim community.

With that said, I think they do want the general belief in God, a general sense that goodness orders the universe, that love and peace and joy are all good things, that human rights actually matter, and that we can experience some sort of mystical communion with God / the universe / whatever through spirituality.

I believe, in fact, that the logical reason of man operates in this field of divinity exactly as it has always operated in love, or in patriotism, or in politics, or in any other of the wider affairs of life, in which our passions or our mystical intuitions fix our beliefs beforehand.

Atheist can have all manner of ethical beliefs and even, as many atheist buddhists do, mystical religious beliefs.

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Even so, the Greek patrimony contributed to the development of the mystical outlook and had a great deal to do with the elaboration of the Muslim system of belief.

Hence, it is almost inconceivable to them that Solzhenitsyn could hold traditional beliefs about God, Orthodox Christianity, the mystical basis of the Russian nation, and the soul's eternal destiny while also being a spokesman for responsible political freedom (meaning constitutional limits on power, moderate nationalism, private property, and local self «government).

Instead of following the Greek - influenced idea of orthodoxy as right belief... the emerging community is helping us to rediscover the more Hebraic and mystical notion of the orthodox Christian as one who believes in the right way - that is, believing in a loving, sacrificial and Christlike manner.»

The method gave rise to the couplet: Litera gesta docet, Quid credas allegoria / Moralis quid agas, Quo tendas anagogia (which freely translates as: «The literal teaches what God and our ancestors did; the allegory is where our faith and belief is hid / The moral meaning gives us the rule of daily life; the anagogy [or mystical interpretation] shows us where we end our strife»).

«For me, religious belief is more about mystical feelings about the world, and God is something one encounters in one's self,» says Isham, who converted to Christianity at the age of 40.

Administrators at Bullard Elementary School in Kennesaw, Georgia, implemented yoga and other mindfulness practices in the classroom to reduce students» stress, but they received an onslaught of complaints from parents who felt they were promoting non-Christian beliefs by «allowing this Far East mystical religion with crystals and chants to be practiced under the guise of stress release meditation.»

Finding significance in numbers and number sequences dates back to ancient times, and numerology — the belief in a divine, mystical connection between numbers and events — is currently enjoying a resurgence in popularity.

At its heart, the film is a kind of mystical fairy tale whose messages of belief, endurance, family and belonging transcend its memorably specific people and setting.

It would make sense that any tale he might spin about his early adventures would heighten his own role in them as a mentor and guide, as well as inject his own belief in mystical elements as he sees them unfold.

This belief lent credence to the beliefs through the ages about the mystical and magical nature of the cat.

The atmosphere is simply electrifying as suspense builds throughout the live shows, and the ocean breeze reminds visitors that they are in a very spiritual island; influenced by centuries of beliefs in the mystical and divine.

The mystical significance of numbers is also the premise of Numerology 7, another important oil painting in the show demonstrating Milder's belief that expressionism did not always have to be abstract or gloomy.

To look at spirituality in such secular times is a provocation in itself, and the exhibition traces and questions the genesis of deep religious, mystical and occult beliefs that continue to shape the ideas of contemporary artists today.

Is it Péladan's Rosicrucian and mystical Catholic beliefs that have caused critics like the New York Times's Jason Farago to use dismissive terms like «garbage spiritualism» and «mystical mumbo - jumbo»?

In his painting, Duchamp illustrated the ancient belief in auras by showing a field of mystical colors emanating from the sitter's body.

Mark Tobey has always strived to represent the mystical and otherworldly through his art, which was partially caused by his eastern religious beliefs.

It will trace and question the genesis of deep religious, mystical and occult beliefs that continue to shape the ideas of contemporary artists today.

The belief in the mystical and never observed power of carbon dioxide to increase the temperature of an object merely by surrounding it, is akin to the belief in the power of orgone, or the existence of N Rays.