are people who have taken the Gaia Theory of James Lovelock to the point of being a religion of sorts. These people generally believe that the earth is an entity that we are to get in touch with in order to obtain inner or world peace, or maintain global homeostasis ( Read more... )

Adonis, having become androgynous, behaved as a man for Aphrodite and as a woman for Apollon." - Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History Bk5 (as summarized in Photius, Myriobiblon 190)

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Neoplatonism is generally a religious philosophy. Neoplatonism is a form of idealistic monism (also called theistic monism) and combines elements of Polytheism (see Monistic-polytheism). Plotinus taught the existence of an ineffable and transcendent One, from which emanated the rest of the universe as a sequence of lesser beings. Later Neoplatonic ( Read more... )