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ArsMysteriorum · 4445 days ago · link · · parent · post: The sociological and psychological origins of religion
It is odd that I am putting quite a bit of time into researching a PhD thesis proposal that flies directly in the face of this. Odder still how much fun it is?
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ArsMysteriorum · 4445 days ago · link ·
The study of Renaissance Western esotericism is necessarily interdisciplinary, as it involves the greatest polymaths in history and so calls on similar talents from its scholars. They labored under the assertion that there was no barrier between 'physical' and 'supernatural', but that all of nature was physical including intermediary intelligences. They make a startlingly good case.