Escape from EvilFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Denial of Death, a penetrating and insightful perspective on the source of evil in our world. “A profound, nourishing book…absolutely essential to the understanding of our troubled times.” —Anais Nin “An urgent essay that bears all the marks of a final philosophical raging against the dying of the light.” —Newsweek “Brilliant and challenging…adds another bit of reason to balance destruction…It is, in the best sense of the words, both scientific and philosophical…of the highest importance.” —Los Angeles Times |
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... wonder people have almost universally feared the " evil eye " in traditional society : it expresses a natural and age - old reaction to making oneself too prominent , detaching oneself too much from the background of things . In ...
... wonder people have almost universally feared the " evil eye " in traditional society : it expresses a natural and age - old reaction to making oneself too prominent , detaching oneself too much from the background of things . In ...
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... wonder that early converts to Christianity could renounce everything in a decisive way that today seems strangely self- sacrificial to us . We are not in the same bind . We have completely eclipsed the tension of the invisible - visible ...
... wonder that early converts to Christianity could renounce everything in a decisive way that today seems strangely self- sacrificial to us . We are not in the same bind . We have completely eclipsed the tension of the invisible - visible ...
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... wonder why youth has abandoned the churches , not wanting to realize that it is precisely because organized religion openly subscribes to a commercial- industrial hero system that is almost openly defunct ; it so obviously denies ...
... wonder why youth has abandoned the churches , not wanting to realize that it is precisely because organized religion openly subscribes to a commercial- industrial hero system that is almost openly defunct ; it so obviously denies ...
Contents
Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
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