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Reinterpreting NELSON RODRIGUES An introduction to the representation of unpleasantness Marcelo Bolshaw Gomes1 I always considered myself to be a progressive person. And I always considered embarrassing my intellectual passion for three northeastern reactionary journalists: Câmara Cascudo, Gilberto Freire and Nelson Rodrigues. I struggled a lot with Cascudo, um to the point when I accepted

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THE SOCIAL COGNITIVE THEORY AND TREATMENT OF ASPERGER SYNDROME/ AUTISM Marcelo Bolshaw Gomes[1] Abstract: This text, besides intending to be a short commented summary on the progress and limitations of the ideas of the contemporary psychologist Albert Bandura and the main concepts of the social learning theory and social cognitive theory, also deals with the evolution of theories and

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Santo Daime is based upon tree structures: the church, the doctrine and the sacrament.There are followers that give more emphasis to the institutional aspect; others emphasize the doctrinaire aspect and a few ones, in which I am included, consider the sacrament to be the most important element. The ‘institutionalists’ give emphasis to the administrative rules; the ‘doctrinerists’ to the

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THE MYTH OF PERPETUAL RETURN Homosexuality and spirituality in Xena, the warrior princess Abstract: The document analyzes the TV series ‘Xena, the warrior princess’, from which the author raises some up-to-date theoretical references on mythology and argues over the hyper-textual aspects of the narrative structure of sacred stories. Our culture is full of stories. Each commercial we read or see

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Creator of the Universe, we ask you today to help us accept ourselves as we are. Help us to accept our mind as it is, with all its emotions, hopes and dreams, with our personality, our unique way of being. Help us to accept our body as it is, with all its beauty and perfection. Allow the love we feel for ourselves to be so strong that we will never more reject ourselves or sabotage our happiness,

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We ask you today, Creator of the Universe, to open our hearts, so that we may appreciate all of Your Creations and live in eternal love with You. Help us to see You in all that our eyes, ears, heart and senses perceive. Allow us to see with the eyes of love, so that we may find You wherever we go, and see You in all Your creations. Allow us to see You in every cell of our bodies, in every emotion

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“In times immemorial, God without form, Brahman, the “oldest of all” the gods, bored with nothingness, created the goddess Maya for his enjoyment (In other versions of the story he creates the mirror universe in order to admire himself.).And so he said: “Maya, shall we play?”Maya answered: “Only if you create the world.”So Brahman created the heavens, the earth, the sea, the sun

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Let me start by saying a little bit of me. It will help to understand and contextualize my texts. I was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1961. I am the fifth son of a middle-class family. My father worked in the bank and my mother was a maid. My older brothers had great importance in my formation. French was a psychoanalyst; Jurema, sociologist; and Carmi (Maria do Carmo), teacher, poet and

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We intended here to make some approximations between the work of the English contemporary writer Neil Gaiman (specially the Sandman comic series) and the deleuzian thought: reality seen as virtual multiplicity inside of a single plan of immanence, the change in social sense of Christian guilt sorrow to the regimen of limitless moratoria and the Devenir (Becoming) (the accident as factor of the

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This chapter summarizes and brings up to date to the book Um mapa, uma bússola - Hipertexto, Complexidade e Eneagrama (A map, a compass - Hypertext, Complexity and Enneagram (GOMES, 2000) and presents the notion of enneagram as a model of complex system capable to measure noise and self-organization, associating the dynamic and synchronous factors to the subjective and objective aspects. And,

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Besides summarizing the integral thought of Ken Wilber, that synthesizes different theoretical models and traditional cartography in a holistic approach, the present text aims to demonstrate that the notions of Communication and Complexity permeate his ideas, although they do not appear explicitly in his books. The integral thought of Ken Wilber represents a step ahead, as much in relation to the

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Methodological procedures for self-knowledge. This text intends to discuss methodological parameters and procedures for organization of biographies and for the historical study of the individual subjectivity through the hermeneutics, the general theory of interpretation. Generally, the hermeneutics are applied to explain and to understand other scientific theories, works of art, political

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A Dream of a Thousand Cats “Is the wise man who dreams to be a butterfly or is it the butterfly that dreams to be a wise man who dreams to dream about being a butterfly?"[1] The world of dreams has always been presented to man as a reality parallel to the universe observed through the senses. And, very early, somebody deduced that the universe would have to be a dream of God. E the Dream

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In the spiritist session of November 15th of 1908, presided by Jose de Souza, in the headquarters of the Spiritist Federacy of Niterói, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, a series of strange facts happened: Spirits, that said to be of black slaves, natives and children had incorporated the house mediums, in a way that breached with the Kerdecists practices: asking for candy, tobacco and alcohol.

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The ritual initiation in the Candomblé is a process of constructing a permanent psychological identity between the participant of the cult and the cultuated entity. Opposing to the mediumistic development on the spiritist conception – in which the spiritist medium temporarily renounces its proper subjectivity in favor of the subjectivity of a deceasead person - the incorporation trance in the

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There is a legend tells that, in an immemorial time, the king Shango, orisha chosen by Obatalá to rule over the land and the others gods, had many wives. The most important was Oya (or Yansan), godess of the storms, and Oshum, whose domain is extended to the rivers, lakes and waterfalls. A certain day, jealous about the preference of Shango for her rival; Yansan decided to revenge from Oshum

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A narrative trip through Tarot’s Major Arcane Once upon a time, in one of the distant Kingdoms in which memories no longer exist, a great Magician (01). When he opened his left hand up and his right hand down, he would canalize great power and unite earth and the sky, and from this unity would govern the four elements: the earth-token, the water-vessel, the air-sword, and the fire-stick that lay

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During the second Persian invasion to the Greeks, general Leonidas, king of Sparta, went up to the Delphi oracle to inquire about the possibility of the Spartan army, of 300 men only, to face alone 5000 Persians in the Thermopiles valley. The pythoness psycho graphed the following: - "Go, you will win. You won't die there.” And general Leonidas, then, went to war and died together with his 300

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"According to tradition where the Egyptian cleric, inheritors of the wisdom of Atlantis, were still guardians of the sacred mysteries, the Great Hierophant, foreseeing a period of spiritual decay of humanity and the persecution of the sacred teaching, convoked to the temple all expert cleric of Egypt so that, together they could find a way to preserve from destruction the initial teaching, thus

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In the tradition of Santo Daime, a 'hynarum' reflects the learning of the person who received and expressed his spiritual biography, with the evidence and experiences he encountered during the course of his life. In addition, each hynarium also is characterized by teachings of a saint in particular, according to the characteristics of spiritual guide that directs its receptor. The Hynarium the

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- on awareness of our double symbiosis There is a native North American legend that says that in the beginning of Earth’s history, there was a great conference with all the animals, to protest the devastating and ignorant attitude of mankind towards the environment. “Nature is the great mother of every animal, and man wishes to submit her to his fickleness”- accused the serpent, demanding that

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Osho: Avatar of Insurrection A critical homage to the pope of esotericism pop. (1) A rebel is not someone who does react against society, is someone who comprehends the whole game and simply gets out from it. The game starts to no make sense to him. He is not against the game. This is the beauty of rebellion: It is all about freedom. The revolutionary man is not free; he spends his whole time

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RECAPITULATING CASTANEDA To display the thought of Castaneda in an analytical manner, is somehow to betray it, once it has always emphasized the practical and irrational nature of the Toltec teachings. And it is a great initial difficulty to characterize the ideas of Castaneda, since his thinking is neither esoteric nor academic, but combines elements of both in sophisticated concepts – as '

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Kambô, The Spirit of the Shaman "Kambô circulates in the heart. Our shaman said that when we take Kambô it makes the heart move accurately, so that things flow, bringing good things to the person. It is as if there was a cloud on the person, preventing the good things to come, then, when it takes the Kambô; it comes a 'green light' which opens its ways, making things easier" There is a Kaxinawá

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JUREMA THE QUEEN - The Sacred Plant of Brazilian Northeastern Backlands (1) The Jurema is settled on a unique place among Brazilian anthropological studies. The term itself contains multiple denotations, which are associated on a complex symbolism (MOTA & BARROS, 1990:171). Besides the botanical sense (2), the word Jurema has at least three other meanings: 1. Liquid preparation based upon the

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