The Uniqueness of the Spiritual Heritage in the Cultural and Religious Matrix of the Ancient East

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Pages: 43-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/FEQQ8448

Abstract:

The article starts from the thesis that the ancient East is a unique space, time and donor of the cultural beginning in a world that has lost the humane sense of authentic culture and exists without clarity about the relationship of tension between culture and civilization. The ancient East is an example of quality, and not so much of quantity, of its cultural and religious heritage. Nowhere has the religious managed to dominate everyday experience as it is demonstrated by Eastern teachings. The sense of existentiality of the experience and unity with everything while maintaining a sacred attitude towards the pure springs of spirituality is a great merit of the East. Unique are the rituals, meanings and methods we have available to develop our knowledge in the most profound way – as self-knowledge. Rediscovering the East through a critical and reflexive methodology, today we again have the lost productive potential of the religious and the authentic cultural.

Keywords:

ancient East; religion; philosophy and psychology; culture; civilization; supernatural; sacred; nature of mind; components of Eastern religious symbolism.

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