Journal ArticleDOI
The Human Condition.
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
In some religious traditions, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness.Abstract:
Human beings are described by many spiritual traditions as ‘blind’ or ‘asleep’ or ‘in a dream.’ These terms refers to the limited attenuated state of consciousness of most human beings caught up in patterns of conditioned thought, feeling and perception, which prevent the development of our latent, higher spiritual possibilities. In the words of Idries Shah: “Man, like a sleepwalker who suddenly ‘comes to’ on some lonely road has in general no correct idea as to his origins or his destiny.” In some religious traditions, such as Christianity and Islam, the myth of the ‘Fall from the Garden of Eden’ symbolizes the loss of the primordial state through the veiling of higher consciousness. Other traditions use similar metaphors to describe the spiritual condition of humanity:read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Towards a political concept of reversibility in international relations: Bridging political philosophy and policy studies:
TL;DR: While contingency and negation are relatively well-established notions in the theoretical analysis of international relations, their practical implications remain under-conceptualised as discussed by the authors and need to be considered.
Journal ArticleDOI
Do Celebrities Have It All? Context Collapse and the Networked Publics
Asha Kaul,Vidhi Chaudhri +1 more
TL;DR: With the advent of social media and increase in networked publics, context collapse has emerged as a critical topic in the discussion of imagined audiences and blurring of the private and the publi... as mentioned in this paper.
Journal Article
Seeing and Being Seen: Toward a Liberal Democratic Theory of Spectatorship
TL;DR: In this paper, a dual-ended process that affects both those who see and those who are seen is considered, and the authors examine the ways various forms of inequalities (social, economic, and political) may shape experiences of being seen.
Journal ArticleDOI
Work and culture: Approaching cultural and work psychology:
TL;DR: The authors argue that culture and work have suffered from a mutual distancing over the course of history, and argue that work is a sign-mediated activity that occurs through culture and culture is not an entity, but rather a process by which we use signs as tools to mediate our relationship with the environment and to regulate our own action in irreversible time.
References
More filters
Book
The Life of Lines
TL;DR: In this article, a series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human are presented, with a focus on the life of lines.
Journal ArticleDOI
From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice: reclaiming a transformative agenda for gender and development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the fact that gender equality and women empowerment have been eviscerated of conceptual and political bite compromises their use as the primary frame through which to demand rights and justice.
Journal ArticleDOI
Echo chambers and viral misinformation: Modeling fake news as complex contagion.
TL;DR: A network simulation model used to study a possible relationship between echo chambers and the viral spread of misinformation finds an “echo chamber effect”: the presence of an opinion and network polarized cluster of nodes in a network contributes to the diffusion of complex contagions.
Journal ArticleDOI
Do Humble CEOs Matter? An Examination of CEO Humility and Firm Outcomes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a mediation model to explain the relationship between CEO humility and firm performance and found that when a more humble CEO leads a firm, its top management team is more likely to collaborate, share information, jointly make decisions, and possess a shared vision.
Journal ArticleDOI
Antibiotic Resistance and the Biology of History
TL;DR: The turn to the study of antibiotic resistance in microbiology and medicine is examined, focusing on the realization that individual therapies targeted at single pathogens in individual bodies are environmental events affecting bacterial evolution far beyond bodies.