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Now, it might be a good way to define the chapters that follow as various explorations of what it means to remember the One in "the midst of the turmoil." This being said, we have to add that one or another of the phenomena that are explored in the following pages may not speak to all readers with the same sense of need and urgency. We know by experience that the stories of Coyote, the tricks of Hermes, or the extreme pranks of holy fools are not, and need not, be to everybody's liking and profit, far from that. To some extent and mutatis mutandis, what is true of esoterism can also be said of "cracks of light." Both share the precariousness of their manifestations and the circumstantial relevance of their teachings. Moreover, esoteric doctrines and practices lend themselves to concealment and paradox given their profundity and subtlety. The kinds of phenomena that we propose to study thereby serve, not infrequently, as vehicles or masks for esoteric teachings. In acknowledging this relationship, however, we do not mean to equate "cracks of light" with esoterism as such. Be that as it may, although the phenomena that we examine in this book do not necessarily address an exclusive g
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- Author
- P. Laude, Patrick Laude
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan US
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786611368746
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Sociology, Religion