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Myth and Mind: The Origin of Human Consciousness in the Discovery of the Sacred

2010

By accepting that the formal structure of human language is the key to understanding the uniquity of human culture and consciousness and by further accepting the late appearance of such language amongst the Cro-Magnon, I am free to focus on the causes that led to such an unprecedented threshold crossing. In the complex of causes that led to human being, I look to scholarship in linguistics, mythology, anthropology, paleontology, and to creation myths themselves for an answer. I conclude that prehumans underwent an existential crisis, i.e., the realisation of certain mortality, that could be borne only by the discovery-creation of the larger realm of symbolic consciousness once experienced a…

The Manifestation of Consciousness: Beyond & Within from Fundamental to Ubiquity

2017

Consciousness being the very source of subjective experience is needed for our life experiences, for the working of our body, to perceive, to cognize, and to express. Agreeing to a fundamental approach for consciousness is more about embracing the true understanding of consciousness rather than avoiding it. Consciousness can, therefore, be located anywhere and everywhere, but in a form that we do not understand until it takes shape within the limits of our reality. Monism related approaches to consciousness are an act to run away from the problems associated with dualism and therefore the need of the hour is a holistic sense of consciousness. Holistic approaches to understand consciousness …

In laudem novae scholae. Slavinājums jaunatklājamai skolai

2017

No latīņu valodas tulkojis Dainis Zeps

Likteņdārzs: tradicionālās latviešu reliģiozitātes transformācijas projekts = The Garden of Fates: A Project of Transformation of Traditional Latvian…

The research deals with the memorial complex called the Garden of Fates. The complex is dedicated to Latvian victims of the 20th century and located on the island Krievkalna in Latvia. The article analyzes various aspects of traditional Latvian religiosity as a background for the main idea of the project.

Международное Общество Сознания Кришны: К вопросу о рецепции бенгальского вайшнавизма на Западе // The International Society for Krishna Consciousnes…

2012

Global Hinduism is not homogenous. Usually in the process of adjustment to the Western consumer Hinduism transforms to a large extent. Although the founder of ISKCON was not ready to make a compromise with Western worldview and religiosity, ISKCON became one of the most popular forms of Western Hinduism. The article answers the question why ISKCON, rooted in Caitanya Vaishnavism, has experienced just a slight transformation and at the same time is so popular in America and Europe.

Lūgšanas pieejas modelis.Bibliskie, psiholoģiskie un loģiskie aspekti.

IN SUPPORT OF COMTE-SPONVILLE

2011

When I was a small boy, about two years old, on occasion, I had some nightmares. One morning I mentioned that to my Mother, and she replied, in a most natural matter of course manner, as if it had been about a simple and trivial issue, that next time, when I would again have such a nightmare, I should simply remember that I was dreaming, that all it would only be in a dream, and then I should just wake up … Since my Mother’s reply came so instantly, smoothly, and without the least emotion, let alone dramatization, I simply took it as such … And next time, when a nightmare came upon me during my dream, I simply did, and yes, I managed rather naturally to do, what my Mother had told me to do …

Divine Semi-Paradoxes

2010

Which path to go? The Notion of Religion in Phenomenology of Religion in Europe and Latvia (in Latvian)

2010

The article is dedicated to the understanding of religion in the classic Phenomenology of religion and in the post-modern one in the Western Europe. The second part of the article is devoted to the Latvian Phenomenology of religion of the twenties-thirties of the XX century. The problem is that Phenomenology of religion and the Comparative religion on the whole today ignore the classic categories of the Sacred and the religious experience applying to their unverifiable character. Is the methodology of sciences appropriate for the study of religion? Does the Comparative religion have its own object of research? Which paradigm of religion is appropriate for Latvian Comparative religion? Those…

No Kristus pie Krišnas: jaunā reliģiskā paradigma? From Christ to Krishna: A New Religious Paradigm?

Globālais hinduisms ir daudzveidīgs. Parasti hinduisms, pielāgojoties Rietumu patērētājiem, lielā mērā transformējas. Starptautiskā Krišnas Apziņas Biedrība ir viena no populārākajām Rietumu hinduisma kustībām, kaut arī tās dibinātājs nebija gatavs uz kompromisiem ar Rietumu reliģiozitāti. Raksts atbild uz jautājumu, kādēļ Krišnas Apziņas biedrība, kas sakņojas Čaitanjas vaišnavisma tradīcijā, ir piedzīvojusi ļoti nenozīmīgas izmaiņas mācībā un reliģiskajā praksē, un tomēr kļuva populāra eiropiešu vidū. Tas ir kļuvis iespējams pateicoties tam, ka vaišnavisma teoloģiskā sistēma ir tuva kristietībai un līdz ar to ir atpazīstama rietumniekiem; arī tādēļ, ka Čaitanjas vaišnavismā notiek mūsdien…