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Charles Peck Jr deposited Sketch of Belonging, Belongingness, Groups and Identity – Baumeister, Tania Singer-empathy, Solomon Asch’s famous authority experiment, Hogg and Abrams, theory of subjective uncertainty reduction and meaning in group formation & Ideology of Enlightenment in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAs the prominent social psychologists, Baumeister and Leary, point out, “Groups can share food, provide mates, and help care for offspring (including orphans). Some survival tasks such as hunting large animals or maintaining defensive vigilance against predatory enemies, are best accomplished by group cooperation…. Competition for limited res…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited La muerte es un producto de su imaginación: la anatomía de la falacia definitiva como un estereotipo desadaptativo, – Argumento materialista de que “la espiritualidad es irreal” – está más allá de la medida [Miller y Thompson] – Crítica respaldada por el in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl escapismo extremo de los psicólogos materialistas impulsado por el materialismo académico y la Precisa “Profecía de Mar” de Jung – tan Recientemente Probada como Verdadera. Pregunta de un periodista a Carl Jung: ¿Cree que, dentro de veinte años, a alguien le importará el espíritu de los símbolos, de lleno en la era de los viajes interpl…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Thunder Gods, – nearly fifty storm gods including: Zeus, Thor, Indra, story of Zeus + Greek goddess Hera harass Heracles + Jane Goodall’s Apes’ response w/ Challenge Displays to a Violent Thunder Storm! – What We Can Learn From Myths about Human Mind in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoHammering, loud peals of thunder had startled me into consciousness. As a young child of six, the storm had roused me from the comfortable oblivion of my deep sleep. The booming rolls of thunder had woken my father as well. His head peered from behind the door. Finding me awake, we went onto the porch of our summer cottage, which was perched high…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Different Theories on Various Functions of Religions: Predisposition to Religious Beliefs – 1. Fear of the Unknown (and death). 2. Anthropomorphism – Theory of MInd – Xenophanes to Hume, 3. Social Functionalism -meaning system for/of social relationshiips in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoFunctions of Religion
1. Fear of the unknown Fear of the unknown is a popular theory. The philosopher David Hume, the anthropologist Malinowski, and Einstein all emphasize the role of anxiety – or fear.
2. Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object, is another favorite theory. Xenophanes (…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited धर्म, कन्फ्यूशीवाद, कपवा मानसिकता बनाम भौतिकवाद विचारधारा के रूप में “समूहों (या समुदायों) का कोई मनोविज्ञान नहीं है” (ऑलपोर्ट 1927) गीर्ट्ज़ की धर्म की परिभाषा में कोई समुदाय/सामाजिक चेतना नहीं है + अधूरा सामाजिक संज्ञानात्मक सिद्धांत (उद्देश्यों को दरकि in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoलगभग एक सौ वर्षों से, भौतिकवादियों ने तर्क दिया है कि मानव चेतना मस्तिष्क में न्यूरॉन्स की सक्रियता तक ही सीमित है और इसलिए कोई सामाजिक चेतना नहीं हो सकती है। यह एक बेतुका तर्क है. इस तथ्य से कि मस्तिष्क में न्यूरॉन्स सक्रिय होते हैं, इसका मतलब यह नहीं है कि कोई सामाजिक चेतना नहीं है।
आदेश के बिंदु के रूप में मैं इस बात पर प्र…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Body-Mind-Spirit Paradigm – Genetic Emotion-Charged Unconscious Spiritual Symbols!: Tukudika Native Americans, Hawaiian Ho’omana religion, Filipino Kapwa (shared-identity)-Ginhawa, Modern Medicine – Dr. Koenig + Prism Paradigm Symbolic Energy-Filter model in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAs a theoretical paradigm is a very natural and common-sense, idea-model – an idea or paradigm of a human being that is easily grasped model-idea. It is not surprisingly, then, that the Body-Mind-Spirit Paradigm appeared very early in human history.
The Ho’omana religion actually recognizes three different types or levels of “spirit,” which…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Edgar Cayce “Sleeping Prophet” 1877 – 1945 – Famous Documented Psychic & Spiritual Healer-Leader! “The spirit is life. The mind is the builder. The physical is the result.” – w/ preamble “Spirituality is a natural human predisposition. K Adams & Hyde in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoPerhaps the most incredible case Edgar Cayce ever encountered was the case of the Dietrich child. In fact, because newspapers did publish the remarkable story of the Dietrich child, Edgar Cayce immediately became a sensation. In 1902, Cayce had just begun to gain a reputation as a healer. Aimee Dietrich was a six-year-old child who had become…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited The Deeper Dimension of Einstein, Pargament, Wong – Awareness, Orientation + Attention – Klinger and neuroscience ” Albert Einstein: “t would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense!” in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoKenneth Pargament vigorously argues that, “There is a deeper dimension to our problems. Illness, accident, interpersonal conflicts, divorce, layoffs, and death are more than “significant life events.” They raise profound and disturbing questions about our place and purpose in the world, they point to the limits of and underscore our finitude.” (p.…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited What we can learn from children! “Spirituality is a natural human predisposition”” Relational spirituality Hay and Nye; Spirituality as intelligence (K Adams, B Hyde), “experiences can heal-D Thomas + D Scott “Children’s experience will feel normal in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoSpirituality is a natural human predisposition. It is more primal than institutional religion and concerns a person’s sense of connectedness with self, others, and the world (or cosmos). Kate Adams Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln & Brendan Hyde Australian Catholic University
Preface: Edna’s story of her struggle with the death of…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited Up close and personal spiritual-psychic experience – fear factor =J E Kennedy “Very little research” on “people” who have experiences – in terms of people’s reality vs experiences (abstractions) w/ Pargament/Mahoney, Dr. Visuri, C Cusack in the group
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoUp close and personal: J. E. Kennedy points out that “45% of people in one particular study reported an initial reaction of fear to their spiritual-psychic experiences.” Categorization is well-known and well-proven process in the human mind. In my experience it is clear that my experience which was and still is unexplainable under the normal sta…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Sketch of Quantum Physics Science w/ Precognition Experiments by Daryl Bem: involving 12,406 subjects Presentiment Meta-analysis by Julia Mossbridge; Remote Viewing Experiments: Stephan Schwartz, R Targ + Documented “Psychics”: Edgar Cayce, Theresa Caput in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe parapsychologist, Daryl Bem, through successfully repeated experiments demonstrated that precognition experiments do, in fact, produce consistently successful results. It began with Daryl Bem’s 2011 article about his original experiments which produced very significant results. That article got a lot of other researchers interested. Also,…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Dr. Ingela Visuri: “The case of High functioning Autism” & spirituality – “unexplainable sensory experiences” & invisible touch = creativity & imagination w/:Distress, factor & “gradual enlightenment & commentaries by teachers, families + Prism Paradigm in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoIn Ingela Visuri’s study of autistic spiritual experiences, what struck me is the very distinct character of the autistics’ experiences. In Ingela Visuri’s words, “unexplainable sensory experiences” – invisible touch, invisible presence (i.e. bodies), and even imaginary friends. It would stand to reason that since this peculiar type of…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA replied to the topic Theodicy in the discussion
Philosophy of Religion on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAddison on Aliens: On the origins of the evolutionary epic https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/AddisonAliens.pdf
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Theory of Four Needs that [adequately] Explain and Describe Religion: The Four Primary Drives: The Need for Meaning, the Need to Belong, the Need for Ideology, and the Spiritual Drive in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Four Primary Drives: The Need for Meaning, the Need to Belong, the Need for Ideology, and the Spiritual Drive
Religious beliefs are primarily created and generated by four very basic and fundamental “Needs” or “Drives.” From a rather practical and pragmatic approach, in general, religions could be said to involve meaning or purpose, others…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited Jeremiah the Prophet – Prophecy as Force, “Community” and “social consciousness” + three stage Paradigm for prophecy & prophecy as social consciousness – in light of Barton’s article on influence of Jeremiah-exile with a flower to fruit metaphor in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoGeorge Barton, PhD: “Disaster and sorrow compel either a soul or a nation to seek anew the foundations of life. Times of sorrow are accordingly times of religious growth. The Babylonian exile was no exception. Indeed, the influence of this exile upon the religion of Israel was enormous. This was in part due to the fact that the exile was the e…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Critique Endorsed by Drs Koenig, Wong, Farra,- Materialist argue that Spirituality is unreal”- being beyond measurement [Miller and Thompson] = Definist fallacy = Maladaptive stereotype & .by the same logic Death is a Figment of Your Imagination. in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe Academic Materialist driven Extreme Escapism of Materialist Psychologists
and Jung’s Accurate “Mar’s Prophecy” – so Recently Proven True.
A journalist’s question to Carl Jung: Do you think that, in twenty years, anyone will care about the spirit of symbols, fully in the era of interplanetary journeys, with the Sputniks, the Gagarins, and…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited Materialism as Ideology: “There is no psychology of groups ” (Allport 1927) = FALSE PREMISE + Geertz w/ no community & Social Cognitive theory w/o motivation VS Historical Evidence – Dharma, Confucianism, Kapwa-loob values – ethics (V. Enriquez) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThere is an universal consensus among scientists that human beings are first and last social animals. IT would stand to reason then that relationships – and social consciousness – would be pivotal. In this complex society human beings simply would not be able to function is they didn’t have some form of functional social consciousness. Hinduism h…[Read more]
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Adam DJ Brett started the topic CFP&CFA: The Religious Origins of White Supremacy in the discussion
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDetails
- The conference will take place at Syracuse University from 8-10 December 2023.
Sponsored by:
- Henry Luce Foundation
- Syracuse University
Description
In the 1823 US Supreme Court decision, Johnson v M’Intosh, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote,”…discovery gave title to government…[and] the sole right of acquiring the…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited Early Christian Mystics and Modern Scientists: from St. Gregory of Nyssa, Denys the Areopagite, St. Augustine, Einstein, Wolfgang Pauli, ! – Absolute Truth [God] is Beyond Words and Beyond Comprehension! = “the unbounded, incomprehensible divinity” in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEinstein observed, “Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration of this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.” As the p…[Read more]
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Rafael Neis deposited Book Preview: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThis is pre-publication preview introduces the major questions, methods, and insights of my book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species (UC Press, 2023).
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