“What is Zen Buddhism?” – Filip HOLM | Let’s Talk Religion

In this video, we continue exploring the rich spiritual tradition of Buddhism through one of its most profound and important schools - Chan/Zen. We dive into the history and development of the school, as well as its characteristic teachings about meditation, koans, liberation and Buddha-nature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMC_8BjG3Cc Sources/Suggested Reading: Chuang Zhi (2019). "Exploring Chán: An Introduction…

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Anauê! Integralismo e nazismo na região de Blumenau | Documentário (2017)

Anauê! é resultado de vários anos de viagens e pesquisas em acervos de cidades do Vale do Itajaí e Vale do Itapocu, região de forte colonização alemã. O tema central são os movimentos Integralista e Nazista em Santa Catarina antes, durante e pós Segunda Guerra Mundial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srcitNSPXgQ Um dos destaques do filme são as entrevistas…

“O que o judaísmo ensina sobre a diversidade” – Michel GHERMAN

Neste vídeo, Michel conta um pouco de sua trajetória no judaísmo, traz algumas lições do Talmud e mostra como um mesmo texto pode trazer diferentes interpretações. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvXmesJkzVs Michel Gherman possui graduação em História pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2000), mestrado em Sociologia e Antropologia - Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2007) e doutorado em…

Who are the Proud Boys? | SBS Dateline

The individual who fails to transcend his quality as a splendid example, a finished model, and whose existence is identified with his vital destiny, locates himself outside the mind. Ideal masculinity—obstacle to the perception of nuance—involves an insensitivity to the aspect of the everyday supernatural, from which art draws its substance. The more one is…

“Writing is like cultivating parasites in your brain” – Michel HOUELLEBECQ

“The past is always happy and the future also. Only the present hurts,” says Michel Houellebecq in this very rare interview, which the French author has said is his last public stage interview. Considered one of the most important European writers today, Houellebecq speaks with great generosity and humour about love, religion and happiness, offering…

I was a Yazidi slave | Full Film | Doc World

Yazidism is a syncretic, monotheistic religion practiced by the Yazidis, an ethnoreligious group which resides primarily in northern Iraq, northern Syria, and southeastern Turkey. Yazidism is considered by its adherents to be the oldest religion in the world and the first truly monotheistic faith. The Yazidi calendar states that the religion, as well as the universe, is almost 7,000 years…

From Hillsong to Hellsong: a megachurch under investigation | 7NEWS Spotlight

From Hillsong to Hellsong, shocking new revelations about Brian Houston’s megachurch. Victims speak out in Spotlight’s season return, in this full length documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgtOSd1IVGA It was once hailed as one of the most influential religious organisations in the Western World, a global megachurch, preaching a rock’n’roll brand of modern Christianity. But just as quickly as…

Is AI the future of humanity? – Artificial intelligence and its limitations | DW Documentary

Artificial intelligence is often portrayed as the future of humanity. But is the logic of algorithms really infallible? Today, even programmers warn against overestimating AI. After all, artificial intelligence presents us with opportunities, but it also comes with risks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZTutoSnXGc Since the beginning of the 2000s, the term "artificial intelligence" - or "AI" for short…

“Vedantic Self and Buddhist Non-Self” – Swami SARVAPRIYANANDA

It is said in the Katha Upanishad apropos of Atman that it is “joyous and without joy.” That is a state to which we accede as well by the affirmation as by the negation of a supreme principle, as much by the detour of Vedanta as by that of Mahayana. Different as they may be,…

“Los Cátaros: su filosofía y creencias” – Sergi Grau TORRAS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVKv_1d24X0 En la última conferencia del ciclo "Los cátaros: historia, pensamiento y mitos", el profesor Sergi Grau Torras desvela la filosofía cátara. Analizando tratados, rituales y testimonios de la época, se exploran los debates doctrinales y las creencias teológicas cátaras, como el reino de la nada y el sacramento del "consolamentum". Aunque condenado como herejía,…