Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors TOPICS ArtIllustration Lewis Packwood Video games journalist Lewis Packwood has been writing about video games professionally since 2013, and his work has appeared in The Gua...
The complexity of the historical record is multiplied exponentially when one includes other religious traditions in the survey. BothBuddhismandKabbala, theesotericJewish mysticism originating in the 12th century,emphasizenothingness rather than oneness, and the notion of oneness itself has many varieties in...
NOVEMBER 8, 2010 I have found that business-speak can be particularly beneficial in using just a few words to explain situations, scenarios, processes, trends, attitudes and any number of other ethereal and esoteric concepts that might have otherwise needed several sentences or paragraphs to ...
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Nevertheless, as an example and a point of departure, it had a wide effect. It seems to be one of the reasons why so esoteric a subject as systems engineering advanced as rapidly as it did. (For a detailed discussion of the research and development aspects of systems engineering, see the...
secrets of recognition are graded. That is to say, although there is ordinarily a grip (handshake), password, ceremonialized greeting in question-and-answer form, esoteric phrase, or secretjargonserving many of the purposes of a special language that distinguishes even the lowest initiate from non...
Other related types of nonstandard word usage include cant and jargon, synonyms for vague and high-sounding or technical and esoteric language not immediately intelligible to the uninitiate. In England, the term cant still indicates the specialized speech of criminals, which, in the United States,...
Anthropomorphism, the interpretation of nonhuman things or events in terms of human characteristics, as when one senses malice in a computer or hears human voices in the wind. Derived from the Greek anthropos (“human”) and morphe (“form”), the term w
quantum mechanics, science dealing with the behaviour of matter and light on the atomic and subatomic scale. It attempts to describe and account for the properties of molecules and atoms and their constituents—electrons, protons, neutrons, and other more esoteric particles such as quarks and gluons...
St. Ignatius of Loyola St. Bernard of Clairvaux (Show more) Related Topics: meditation ecstasy emptiness esoteric via negativa See all related content mysticism, the practice ofreligiousecstasies(religious experiences duringalternatestates ofconsciousness), together with whateverideologies,ethics, rites,myt...