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“…CD 1 (mixed and compiled by CosmicGate): Those mornings (Original vocal mix) / es. Kris O'Neil. There's no such thing as mermaids / es. …”
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“…Front matter -- Introduction / SECTION ONE -- Spirit Possession Belief and Social Structure / Pastoral Images and Values in Southwest Donegal / Ritual and Religions: An Ethologically Oriented Formal Analysis / The World/Nonworld Dichotomy / Rituals of Community in an American Religious Youth Group Meeting / SECTION TWO -- Techniques of Control in the Esoteric Traditions of India and Tibet / Suffering as a Religious Imperative in Afghanistan / New Approaches to Religious Ethnology, Especially in Austria: Main Theses / Religion and Ecology among the Great Basin Indians / Hindu Ritual Idiom: Cosmic Perspective and Basic Orientations / A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels / Shamanism and World View: The Case of the Ainu of the Northwest Coast of Southern Sakhalin / Rituals of Reversal as a Means of Rewiring Social Structure / The Place of the Cactus Wine Ritual in the Papago Indian Ecosystem / SECTION THREE -- The Violation of Taboo and Magical Power / A Rjonga Curing Ritual: A Causal and Motivational Analysis / Synoptic Comments on Religion, Ethos, and Science in American Culture / In Search of the Miraculous at Zuni / SECTION FOUR -- Signs and Symbols in Israeli Electioneering / Inward-Looking and Outward-Looking Symbols / Crosses and Souls / Dreams as Charismatic Significants: Their Bearing on the Rise of New Religious Movements / SECTION FIVE -- Moon and Reincarnation: Anthropogenesis as Imagined by the Surára and Pakidái Indians of Northwestern Brazil / Creative Process in Ritual Art: Piaroa Indians, Venezuela / Krou Popular Traditions in the Ivory Coast / Religious Practices of a Mysore Village / A Multiple Burial Custom of Korea: Ch'obun / Permanence of Traditional Rites in the Tunisian Marriage Ceremony Today: An Interpretational Approach / Aquatic Rites in the Danube Straits at the Iron Gates / Folk Medicine in a Settlement of the Szekely People in the Southern Banat Region of Yugoslavia / Belief and Cult in Human Prehistory / Animal Sacrifices in the Balkans / The Mystery Play and the Carnival / Mythic Elements of Petroglyph Sites in the Upper Ohio Valley / Family Religion in Japan: the Ie and Its Religious Faith / Relics of Paganism among the Baltic Peoples after the Introduction of Christianity / Epilogue / Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects…”
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“…Cosmogony -- The Different Conceptions of the Universe -- Some Deep Questions in Cosmology -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Scientific Argument -- The Religious Argument -- The Metaphysical Argument -- The Esoteric Argument -- The Post-Cosmological Argument -- The Theory of Post-Cosmology -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- PART TWO The Contested Beginnings -- CHAPTER 2 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS CONTESTED BEGINNINGS -- The Persuasion of Its Contested Beginnings -- Its Contested Beginnings-and the Mind -- Acosmism, and the Illusion in the Creation of the Universe -- Idealism, the Mind, and the Problem of Universals -- Its Contested Beginnings-and Nature -- The Big Bang Theory, and the Pre-Big Bang Alternatives -- Its Contested Beginnings-and Society -- Earth-Centric Cosmology, and the Politics of the Church -- Correlative Cosmology, and Empire Building -- Its Contested Beginnings-and Culture -- Theology, and the Cosmological Argument -- Hylomorphism, Ethics, and the Teleology of the Universe -- The Questionability of Its Contested Beginnings -- PART THREE The Speculative Ends -- CHAPTER 3 THE UNIVERSE AND ITS SPECULATIVE ENDS -- The Wonder of Its Speculative Ends -- Its Speculative Ends-and the Mind -- Involution, the Mind, and the Cosmic Return to the Absolute…”
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“…Introduction ; On the verge of darkening lights ; Point of no return ; Mysterious monolith ; Queen of the night ; At the gates of dawn ; Sphinx ; Carried by cosmic winds / Eloy, san. Frank Bornemann, Sigi Hausen - BONUS TRACK: On the verge of darkening lights (live in Paris 1983)…”
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“…Cover; CHINESE MATHEMATICAL ASTROLOGY: Reaching out to the stars; Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; PREFACE; REFERENCES TO HISTORICAL CHINESE GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES; A BRIEF NOTE ON CHINESE ROMANIZATION; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; 3 THE TAIYI SYSTEM IN THE THREE COSMIC BOARDS: Method of the Taiyi deity; 4 QIMEN DUNJIA: Strange Gates Escaping Techniques; 5 LIUREN: The art of the six Yang Waters; APPENDIX I: TRADITIONAL CHINESE ASTROLOGY; APPENDIX II: THE ZIPING METHOD OF FATE-CALCULATION; APPENDIX III: TABLE OF CHINESE DYNASTIES; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX…”
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“…Survey 5 Religious Dimensions of Gender and Sexuality -- Part VI: The Mahāyāna Buddhist Tradition -- 24: Faith -- Cosmic Buddhas and Bodhisattvas -- Amitābha (Radiant Light) -- Maitreya (The Kindly One) -- Avalokiteśvara (The Perfect Companion) -- Kṣitigarbha (Earth Matrix) -- The Bodhisattva Path -- 25: Principles of Zen Buddhism -- Legends of the Patriarchs -- Characteristics of Zen -- Emptiness of authority -- Emptiness of mind -- Emptiness of activity -- Emptiness of enlightenment -- 26: Buddhism as a Global Religion -- Buddhist Modernism: From Scientific Rationalism to Depth Psychology -- Engaged Buddhism in Asia and the West -- Part VII: Japanese Religions -- 27: Japanese Religion and Culture -- Characteristics of Kami -- 28: Shrine Shintō -- Dimensions of Sacred Time and Space in Japan -- Sacred Space -- The nation/natural world: kokoku (故国, native land) - boundary: the sea -- The community/Shintō shrine: jingu 神宮 (marked by the torii 居, gate) - ritual demarcation: the matsuri (まつり) festival -- The enclosure/homestead - demarcation: the fence and torii -- The home: ie (家) - demarcation: the genkan (玄 ) -- The self (heart and belly): kokoro (心) and hara ( ) - ritual purification: the mizuya (水屋) and the omamori (おまもり) -- 29: Dimensions of Religion in Modern Japan -- Religious Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics: Chanoyu and Haiku -- Religion in Japanese Culture -- Part VIII: Conclusions -- 30: "Religion" and the Religions -- Final Thoughts -- Survey 6 "Religion" and the Religions -- Appendix: Suggestions for Further Reading -- Shusaku Endo, Deep River, and John Dalton, Heaven Lake -- Michio Takeyama, Harp of Burma, and R. …”