![]() ![]() It does not necessarily matter if you belong to a church, or a NRM, (or a university). The last axiom is not less important than the further one: it is all about states of consciousness in this approach.And the corollary of this is that the interpreting task consists in putting together the many pieces of the puzzle to rebuild the whole spiritual process. The second axiom says that the process is split up in different moments and stages which are made visible by figures or characters.This approach is called emic by Antoine Faivre, against the etic approach, in which the commentator distances himself from the observation subject. The person who analyses gets directly involved in the interpretation process.Its time to present our method of work, a particular way of interpreting texts or movies in search for spirituality in a Gnostic way. So, as a character says in Becketts play: ∺ll of us are born silly. Is there a trace of spirituality in the masterpiece in the founding literature of the classical Rosycross: the Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosycross, anno 1459 (written in 1616), when the book is supposed to be just a joke, a farce, or a ludibrium, as the presumed author himself, John Valentine Andreae, pointed out? But it is funny to notice that the anagram of Dogville is Godville, and so it can remind us to Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, whereby the mysterious non-coming visitor might be God. Is there religion in Dogville? We just hear about a mission house with no appointed priest. A confrontation between two far-off pieces of art, a top modern movie and a four hundred years old writing (masterpiece in the founding literature of the classical Rosycross), which normally have nothing to do neither with each other nor perhaps with the goals or interests of the CESNUR-members. Indeed, maybe the relative new rising of cults is based only on this search for the sense of spirituality. ![]() The question we want to discuss here is if violence and its use could be distinctive criteria to mark a boundary between religion and spirituality. ![]()
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