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The Digital as a Space for Esoteric Practices: An Anthropological Study of Esoteric Practices in Contemporary Iran
CAS-E Associated Scholar Maryam Abbasi investigates the digital as a space for esoteric practices in her project at the Institute…
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- By Anna Ozhiganova A variety of esoteric practices around the world aim at spiritual self-transformation and unlocking a person’s hidden or supernatural abilities. In contrast, practices that target infants or even...
- By Michael Lackner The term “esoteric” has no real equivalent in Chinese. For “esoteric Buddhism” and Tantrism, the term mijiao 密教, roughly: “secret doctrine” has become common. Outside of the Buddhist...
- By Bernd-Christian Otto I see the traces of my dance on the soil before me, as if my feet have painted a brownish lane across the grassland. The ‘tree of life’...
