Philosophy / 2.Social philosophy

Phys.N. Vorobyeva O. B.
Samara state University of railway engineering, Russia
To the question about the intersection of culture and esoteric
traditional religion in modern society

Social, epistemological, and personal factors contribute to the formation of religious and esoteric practices both in ancient and in modern society. Addressing regular cultural categories, between them can be traced points of contact, divergence and independent existence.

Keywords: esoteric culture, religion, self-improvement, faith, modern society.

Esoteric culture is an ancient system of esoteric knowledge (Greek "esoteros" - the internal, personal, private) and represents the original cognitive model. Due to the dominant directions of the development of superlicence, esoteric culture has created a special technology, due to withdraw at the last level of universal cosmic knowledge. This involved a long and careful process of training those people who were elected as suitable for this purpose and regarded as dedicated. The last aspects were defined appropriate qualities of mind and morals, spiritual maturity, without prejudice to the psycho-physiological structure of man contain the knowledge and to be open in the complex process of self-development and self-realization. Because of this, the original esoteric culture was intended only for the initiated, as created ability was given considerable power over others and, accordingly, involve a high degree of responsibility of the individual.

Anthropological goal of esoteric culture – personal progress, «its development as supersystem, contributing not only to normalize their psycho-physiological and social problems, but also to obtain absolute knowledge through the development of super-powers, understood as the integrated indicator of wisdom, of omniscience. This indicates that it was originally intended to create a higher type of personality that in ancient times, obviously, were as a normal phenomenon» [1, P. 54].

In critical periods of development of society the value of esoteric culture become available to the General public. That is, they are «transformed into the exoteric, the esoteric model of culture and is structured as a well-functioning social institution that is actively mastered by the population, becoming ontological, normative element of the culture of everyday life» [1, P. 124]. In this Institute there are all its elements: the presence of public interest in this issue, the work of schools, studios and other educational organizations that spread the knowledge; the presence scale the teaching staff, the wide distribution of books and periodicals in these areas; to promote the knowledge and information in the media; inclusion of a large part of the population in these processes.

Different population groups use different areas of esoteric culture. «Intellectuals tend to search for psychological comfort, using it aksionovo-technical positions, and the training sessions in any direction woven into the lifestyle and become a prototype of the daily Wellness programs. Other categories of the population uses vulgar-marginal elements. At the peak of popularity are the public areas of the occult: healing and love magic, mantic arts, astrology, palmistry, occult Sciences» [1, P. 148]. They resorted as a last resort to repair difficult situations, using the services of professionals or numerous literary sources, which help to find the information you need. So the process of changing beliefs, mindsets, leading to the loss of traditional religiosity.

«Both religion and esoteric culture indicate exits from life's dead ends, when the reality does not allow a person to find another way but to resort to faith, to ritual»[2, P.26]. In vulgar-marginal esoteric elements of culture «the phenomenon of faith is supported by the fact that the latter is necessary for the person to escape from dissatisfaction with reality, but not go through years of hard work, prayer, seeking the grace of God and with the help of a miracle»[3, Р.348]. Here starts near the law of motivation, according to which a person chooses such ways of solving problems that allow you to do it faster – and people ask for help not to traditional religion and esoteric culture.

However, traditional religiosity natural, universal, permanent in its existence and responds to the deep needs of man throughout his history. Although many people do not attend worship services, do not participate in the ritual practices of religious organizations, they still remain faithful, pray at home, read the Bible, often use broadcast religious services on television.

Speaking about the intersection of society in modern esoteric culture and traditional religious thought, it should be noted the genetic line of these phenomena. Practical faith in the existence of the supernatural world in relationship with him, the possibility of using it in order to obtain the desired result collected in magic and expressed in their «language» - the rituals, taboos, rituals. «In magic in a concentrated form is a General characteristic of religion as an almost-spiritual way of mastering the forces prevailing over man. In modern religions the magic receded into the background, but has been retained as an integral part of rituals in every religion»[4].

All of the above is the fundamental conditionality of study by theologians, philosophers, culturologists, social, personal, epistemological factors contributing to the development of humanity's religious and esoteric practices. The study of this vector helps in predicting the development of the spiritual foundations of society.

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