DOCTRINE OF MAN IN DESCARTES AND PASCAL by A. M. Malivskyi

“…The realization of this purpose involves defining the spiritual climate of the era and addressing to the texts of two great French thinkers of the 17th century to demonstrate common moments in interpreting the phenomenon of a man. …”
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ANTHROPOCENTRIC INTENTION OF HESYCHAST AND SUFISTIC PRACTICES OF FREEDOM PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT by Yurii Y. Semchuk

“…The mystics’ efforts in aspiration of perception of the Truth were reconstructed, as in Christian practices of an unexpected irradiation of cognition Omnipresent and in the knowledge of Jehovah in Sufism through «gentle-hearted message» which is opened to receiving spiritual vision and the gift of God without volitional intentions of the observer. …”
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Emei Martial Arts Promotion Model and Properties Based on Neural Network Technology by Cheng Xing, N.E. Zainal Abidin, Yudong Tang

“…China unanimously believed that Emei Martial Arts has the essence of self-improvement. It is a spiritual force that actively promotes human progress. …”
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Mia Couto and the enchantment of rain by Myrtle J. Hooper, Isabel B. Rawlins

“…Ashcroft says Couto’s vision as a writer is to ‘give back to the word its divine power … the power to enchant things, be these trees, birds, or landscapes’. …”
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TOTEMIC TABOOS IN ESAN-LAND: UNPACKING THE ROLE AND IMPACT OF TOTEMIC PRACTICES IN EWU KINGDOM, NIGERIA by Aigbokhan Nelson Ehimare, Patrick Charles Alex

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‘Over-hopefulness and getting-on-ness’: Ruskin, Nature, and America by Sara Atwood

“…This essay shows that despite sharing with them a deep love of nature and sense of its spiritual power, there are fundamental and important differences between Ruskin’s understanding of the natural world and that of influential contemporary Americans such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and John Muir.…”
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Showcasing Emptiness? Voicing Redemption Through ‘Saharomania’ in the French Literary Imaginary by Amina Zarzi

“…At once empty and loaded with spiritual charge, the desert embodies the essence of mystical connotations, for those who master decrypting its unsettling silence. …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…His focus is Africa and its Diaspora, but his thought resonates with implications far beyond Africa, into contexts of struggle for plurality of vision outside and even within the West, the global dominance of whose central theoretical constructs inspires Falola’s essay. …”
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Dealing with Complexity – Knowledge, design, and management of the built environment by Cesare Sposito, Francesca Scalisi

“…According to Ceruti and Bardi (2021), unfortunately, it isn’t easy to translate this vision into the workings of everyday life and to guide both the observation of the world and the project, which is an expression of our being in the world. …”
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Monts d’Australie, espaces des mythes, des quêtes, des déchirements by Colette Selles

“…However, a more harmonious future is suggested with visions of rebirth, regeneration and plenitude in the Tasmanian highlands…”
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“Vuelvo y te desconozco”: vocabulario místico y vuelcos espirituales en Báculo de Babel de Blanca Andreu by Lucía Méndez Soria

“…This article analyses the second collection of poems by Blanca Andreu (A Coruña, 1959), a series of apocalyptic visions that mark a spiritual journey and a meditation on the transformative and revealing power of poetry as on the prevalence of a sacred nature of language. …”
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Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility by Adeshina Afolayan

“…Fálétí’s Philosophical Sensibility 61 Both the poets and the philosophers have always had one thing in common— the exploration of the possibilities that ideas and visions yield: As theoretical disciplines concerned with raising social consciousness, philosophy and literature engage in similar speculation about the good society and what is good for humanity. …”
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