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The Quest for Sanctity

The Quest for Sanctity
By Bambi Sheleg  |  19/11/2009
The New Age movement, that enjoys such popularity in Western culture, in Israel as well, can no longer be ignored. Some think that this is the reatest spiritual movement since the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century, and as such exerts tremendous influence on each of us, whether or not we identify with it.

Knights, the monarchy and global terror in the New Age
By Daníelle Gurévitch  |  19/11/2009
A gnostic, apocalyptic approach, which until just a few, short years ago was embraced by no more than a handful of science fiction buffs is suddenly supplanting realpolitik and taking over the current cultural-social climate. Daniela Gurevich on the semantics of images that clouds the hearts and minds of the masses and...

No One Can Save you from the Work that You Have to Do on Yourself
By Micha Odenheimer  |  19/11/2009
Micha Odenheimer interviewed the psychoanalyst Dr. Michael Eigen in New York about the spirituality branded in the intimate encounters of human suffering

"Secular" Religiosity
By Ran Lahav  |  19/11/2009
A course for philosophy students at Haifa University on the connection between man and God led Dr. Ran Lahav to realize the great thirst in Israel for spirituality that is not linked to any kind of religious establishment. Ran Lahav searches for a refashioning of the types of the religious experience

The Blurring Starts from Within
By Yehonatan Garb  |  19/11/2009
Along with the true value inherent in the search for the sublime and the spiritual, the New Age is also characterized by a lack of critical analysis, tremendous commercialization, and a retreat from dealing with society's problems in order to "connect with myself." Dr. Yehonatan Garb examines the meaning...

The Spiritual Revolution Begins from the Bottom Up
By Philip Wexler  |  19/11/2009
Sociologist Philip Wexler, who has for many years studied the "mystical society," as he terms it, presents data that establish the New Age movement in the West as perhaps the largest movement to enter the religious-spiritual arena since the Reformation.

The Kaaba of the Heart
By Ghassan Manasra  |  19/11/2009
If you want to cleanse the mirror of your heart, you must spend a few days in Konya. Ghassan Manasra and twenty friends, Arabs and Jews,visited the tomb of Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi, the great 13th-century Sufi sheikh and poet, in a search for God's love.

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