World Belief

What’s my religion, if I have one? Officially I don't, or perhaps in the strictest sense of the word religion… Read More

Ancient Egyptian religion can be summarized as shamanism under the influence of nationalism. Like the Native American cultures, they saw… Read More

Egyptian religion was both intuitive and rationalistic.  Since its focus was so pragmatic the Greeks and Romans actually saw no… Read More

I tend to use the kahuna concept of mana to evaluate any path. Mana is a concept of "proven effectiveness."… Read More

We are overconfident of human independence. Even modern psychological research suggest that it’s a half truth at best.  Then you could delve… Read More

Literacy is interesting. Previously the only sanctioned literacy was of the priesthood, and only of the sacred texts. The word… Read More

There were two broad schools of thought in Chinese belief, naturalistic and legalistic. The Taoists were an example of the… Read More

What were some of the fundamentals about his thoughts or ideas? The analects of Confucius are a collection of works… Read More

It would likely be very helpful for westerners to study Confucianism, but many western thinkers decry the eastern fusion of… Read More

Norse religion still affects much of our culture today. Our fondness for feast holidays originates with them, as does the… Read More