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The Western Spiritualism

by

Carlos Antonio Fragoso Guimarães






Plato, 428-347 B.C.


This Page in Portuguese



The Ransom of A Beautiful Heritage



This page seeks to show that the current interest for the philosophical-spiritual subjects doesn't just find a strong support in the rich and beautiful Oriental tradition, but also in our extraordinary Western philosophical and religious tradition, as well as in the current progress of the Physical and Psychological Sciences. We tried to recover the primary thought that it based the life and the works of some of the largest and more significant thinkers of the Occident, from the Greeks to nowadays.


This page, in English, is dedicated to my dear Giovanna Lira.




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Index


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Some of tehese pages are in translation proccess from the Portuguese to English


  • Socrates and the discovery that the man is their psyche (in English)

  • Plato and the discovery of the Metaphysics (in English)

  • The Orphism and its Importance in the Philosophy (in English)

  • Jesus and his Message (in English)

  • Plotinus and the Neoplatonism (in English)

  • The Druids and theirs Doctrine of the Immortality of the Soul (in English)

  • The Catholic Church and The Great Heretical Movements: The Catars and the Templers.

  • The Great Mystics: Hildegard von Bingen and Master Eckhart

  • The German Romantic Movement

  • Kierkegaard and the Born of the Existentialism

  • Allan Kardec and the Spiritism (in English)

  • The Modern Physics: A New Vision of the World

  • Carl Gustav Jung and the Analytic Psychology

  • " Besides the Brain " - Holism and Transpersonal Psichology
  • Of the same author: Buddha and the Buddhism: an Oriental psichology
  • Presentation


    The people's great existential dissatisfaction in nowadays seems to show clearly for us that we must to meet again a meaning for our lives. To find again the soft charm that we had when we saw the sunrise or the flight of a hummingbird, when we tried an intuitive understanding that filled us a lot besides the picture reductionist that we are given by the current modern paradigm of our science in the linear process of the understanding of the world. Greats men and women - giants in the soul and humble, a lot of times, in theirs presentation - left for us his lifes and examples and they indicated for us some roads that, if certainly they were personal roads of them for its spiritual maturation, certainly serve to us as references. They also showed us that the life can be a significant adventure when we assumed the initiative of we discover ourselves as only individuals and, at the same time, siblings of a great universal family.

    Now I think that isn't so necessary that we look for " gurus " for that we begin in the search of the our solemnity sef-discovery. We needed companions and friends of ideals. Today the human knowledge is disseminated and it is, partly, more accessible, no longer if finding so rigid submitted in the hands of few - although the access to the most fundamental information for the maturation of the man's political, economic and spiritual understanding is still highly manipulated, fiscalizad and subjects to a rigid control for the dominant classes, zealous in maintaining its power on thinking of the people - that did of the knowledge, or its guard, a dominance tool. We can find the fundamental thought of all the main philosophical currents in books or, in this case, in pages done by people of all the cultures and professions, in an altruistic way, in the internet.

    We owed, also, to have taken care a lot to the you put us to the on the way to the discovery of our self. Countless false masters that make us to look at the stars and to look for the transcendency but that, at the same time, they don't have the minimum scruple of for the avid hands in our pockets, marketing every kind of gewgawses and psychological crutches, or making theyselves masters of a false knowledge of the supernatural. Without we spoke about the people that abuse of the religious and spiritual feeling. They are the hypocrites of all the times. Actually, there are not reasons so that the sacred things are marketed, unless one wants to exercise some type of power on the human consciences, as always they made it the nested religious institutions of all the times. In that we can also include the science, streictily linked to the economic and ideological universe of the capitalist system that we lived, and that, today, it can also be considered a type of an institutionalizedreligion, with their cientist-priests who impose to us his form of understanding the world as being the only valid.


    Also see following Home Pages:



    The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

    A Window for the Philosophy

    Paulo Coelho

    Universidade Internacional Holística de Brasília - Unipaz

    Spiritual Counsciousness in WWW


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    João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil 27/12/1996 and Translated in 03/12/1998



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    Copyright (C) 1996 by Carlos Antonio Fragoso Guimarães


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