Today, as ecological issues arise on all sides, we are becoming more and more aware of how our natural environment is deteriorating. Our cities do not have clean air or drinking water necessary for a healthy life. Erosion and the transformation of fertile land into deserts are happening in many places on the planet, and … Read more
“We need to develop a sense of general responsibility towards the various problems our planet is facing. Responsibility does not lie solely with the leaders of our countries or those appointed or elected to do a specific job. It lies with each and every one of us individually. Peace, for example, begins within each of … Read more
In the Indian newspaper The Tribune on April 21, 2002, Partha S. Banerjee writes: “…to experience Tibet as it used to be, don’t think of Lhasa – visit Mustang. Which means that from the nearest airport to the capital, Lo Manthanga, you have to walk for six days! And that’s in addition to the $700 … Read more
This article is based on the writings of 20th-century historian Christopher Dawson. As a historian of ideas, rather than bare facts (although his erudition was immense), many of his ideas are still very relevant today. One of his main themes is the importance of culture. To describe its role, he compares it to a plant … Read more
1976, at the age of seventy-nine, after a lifetime of serving in the British army, where he held high positions and mingled with presidents and kings, General John Bagot Glubb, known as Glubb Pasha, wrote a short but insightful essay about the life cycle of empires titled The Fate of Empires. In this little book, … Read more
Is it possible to have a society without community, without some kind of family? Will the traditional family disappear and be replaced by some other form of community? To find the answer, we first need to reexamine what family is and whether it has always meant what we understand by that term today. With the … Read more
Archaeological research conducted in the heart of Asia, in Tuva in southern Siberia, over the past few decades, has brought sensational discoveries. Near the village of Arzhan, on the slopes of the Western Sayan Mountains, a massive Scythian necropolis was uncovered, consisting of over a hundred kurgans arranged in several parallel chains. While most of … Read more
Every sacred space is characterized by the fact that it is a place of transition, a breakthrough between levels, which allows communication between what is above and what is below, and vice versa. Individuals in traditional societies could only live in a space “open” upwards, where the breakthrough of levels was symbolically ensured and communication … Read more
“The New Anthropological Spirit”, the result of research in the field of human sciences, reveals that all functions that animate the human being, although sometimes seem contradictory, such as reason and imagination, sacred and profane, conscious and unconscious, are actually complementary and integrated in human consciousness. Thus, modern man is not only a toolmaker and … Read more
The Olympic Games are always an opportunity to reconnect with the spirit of this most significant sports event, which once had a different purpose than it does today. There is still debate about when they originated, although the majority of historical sources agree that the first Olympic Games of the ancient world were held in … Read more
