Book review: Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice. Robin Jackson, editor by Jeremy Millar

“…Holistic Special Education: Camphill Principles and Practice is a story of a vision transcending the destruction and displacement of the Nazi era, and then bringing a holistic philosophical and spiritual approach to the care of children with special needs in the North East of Scotland. …”

El Greco's representation of mystical ecstasy by Estelle Alma Maré

“…These figures, merging themselves in a divine vision, are depicted with distinctive vertical forms, gesturing heavenwards in a specific way. …”
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Communist anniversaries as a symphony of power and science (case study of Bulgaria) by Ewelina Drzewiecka

“…The main issue discussed is how the Communist Party, as a political institution, and the Bulgarian Academy of Science, as an academic institution, cooperated to establish a new vision of society. The discussion offers an interpretation in the light of the Orthodox concept of the symphony of power perceived as a metaphor of the relation between the secular and the spiritual power.…”
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Barokní „světová kronika“ Andrease Augustina Fiedlera jako málo známý kulturněhistorický pramen by Jiří Wolf

“…What areas were surveyed by spiritual vision of the small-town chronicler? How did Fiedler view the space of the night sky full of premonitions, praesagia? …”
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Quelle alternative philosophique et éducative au consumérisme contemporain ? by Etienne Kola

“…Adopted by the majority of the modern States, he has a spiritual shift in current humans making him a fanatic of consumption. …”
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"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi by Michel Dufour

“…Minimalist and conceptual, the Yeatsian mountain is reduced to archetypal forms related to the geometry described in A Vision, Yeats’s metaphysical treatise. Rooted in Irish mythology, and rising into a spiritualist ethereal world, the mountain conjoins different symbolic strata, allowing an intellectual and spiritual ascent. …”
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Comer y vivir bien en el mundo indígena misak: “sentipensar el cuidado de la vida” by James Montano Morales

“…This approach emphasizes understanding eating as a sensory and spiritual connection with the land and the cyclical rhythms of the territory. …”
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Reincarnating Shakespeare’s sister: Virginia Woolf and the “uncircumscribed spirit” of fiction by Naomi TOTH

“…In order to explore the relationship between the fictional, the spiritual, and the feminine in Virginia Woolf’s thought, two of her important essay-manifestos, “Modern Fiction” (1919/1925) and A Room of One’s Own (1928), are read here in parallel. …”
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St. Andrew's project: building inclusion using 'outcomes that matter' by Chris Walter

“…Andrew's Project lie in the original vision of Camphill as a place of mutual learning, where each individual's spiritual uniqueness is promoted through meaningful relationships. …”

The Wound as Bridge: The Path of Conocimiento in Gloria Anzaldúa's Work by Mirella VALLONE

“…The latter is an epistemology she developed in the post-Borderlands years, by which she meant a form of spiritual inquiry /activism reached via creative acts.What emerges from this analysis is a vision in which the personal and the social are closely connected and in which various traditions (the Aztec and the Catholic) converge and mix to provide a conception of pain not as privatizing, meaningless, and world-destroying, but as significant and transformative. …”
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Ироническое начало в фельетоне Киев-город Михаила Булгакова by Antoni Bortnowski

“…The ironic image of Soviet Kiev stands in stark contrast to the vision of the city captured in the novel The White Guard. …”
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Eminescu – poezia naşterii şi a stingerii (elemente de antropogonie eminesciană) by Carmina Cojocaru

“…Through all of these searches, Eminescu places a permanent antropogonic vision at the foundation of his creation on which are based both the cosmogonic and sociogonic views that G. …”
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« For the Childlike is the Divine » : la quête de la jeunesse éternelle dans les contes et romances de George MacDonald by Benjamine Toussaint-Thiriet

“…MacDonald’s vision of these three ages of man is based on his deep religious beliefs and the magical world created in his fairy tales and romances enables him to avoid the more pragmatic and pessimistic aspects in his depiction of the process of growing old. …”
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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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