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Living Religions 6th E
Chapter 1 - Religious Responses
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
03/08/2008

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Freud
Definition

Infancy of humanity.

Sexual guilt 

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Marx
Definition
Opium of the masses.
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William James
Definition
Harvard Professor, wrote "Varieties of Religious Experiences"
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Biologists
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Teleology

a purpose - not random things, intelligent design.

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David Bohm - Quantam Physics
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"Everything interpenetrates everything"

Implicate order & Explicate order 

 

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Sheldrake
Definition

"Morphogenetic fields"

"The Presence of the Past" 

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Pole Shifts
Definition
Cataclismic Shifts
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Mana
Definition
Space Time illusion
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Religion
Definition
From Latin, meaning "to tie back, to tie again"
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mysticism
Definition
a state of being in which a person perceives spiritual truths directly 
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transcendent reality
Definition
an actuality surpassing or beyond the reality known to the senses
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Theistic
Definition
religions based on one's relationship to a divine being 
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nontheistic
Definition
religions that do not see the ultimate reality as a personal divine being 
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monotheistic
Definition
religions worshipping a singular form of the divine being 
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polytheistic
Definition
religions emphasizing many attributes or forms of the divine being 
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atheistic
Definition
the belief that there is no deity
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agnostic
Definition
the belief that if a divine being exists, it is impossible to know it
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Dr. Douglas Baker
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Ancient wisdom, OBEs, 3rd Eye, Reincarnation,

Esoteric Astrophysics 

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Kabbalah
Definition
Jewish Secret Doctrine
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Near Death Experience
Definition
  • Dr. Raymond Moody
  • Dr. Melvin Morse  - pedaitrician
  • Dr. George Rodonaia - Russian Scientist
  • Dr. Kenneth Ring - blind could see
  • Dr. George Ritchie - Army - x-ray temperature 
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Transpersonal Psychology
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Dr. Stanislav Grof
future of psychology, outside of personal experiences 
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Intolerance of Religion
Definition
downside of religion
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