the aim of this article is to examine avicenna’s theory of the immortality of human soul. avicenna believes in immortality of the soul and resurrection of the body but he engages in a philosophical investigation about the former not the latter. according to his view, religion has talked of resurrection of the body in detail. the picture he presented of the immortality of the soul, viz spiritual...

For over 2000 years Reishi mushrooms have been recognized by Chinese medical professionals as a valuable remedy. Its Chinese name Lingzhi, means "spiritual potency". Reishi mushrooms are regarded by the Chinese as the "Medicine of Kings also called as "mushroom of immortality" and has been used as a tonic and strengthening medicine for thousands of years. Uses in traditional healing include inc...

This paper focuses on a study of Milan Kundera’s vision immortality as the possibility overcoming death through one’s creative activity and social work during lifetime. Having analyzed Immortality (1991), we argue that novel is strongly aligned with philosophical hypothesis considers everlasting influence people’s life upon minds actions succeeding generations. Touching eternal questions about ...

Despite the passing of a century, Hertz’s seminal work of 1907, Contribution à une Étude sur la Représentation Collective de la Mort, remains a source of inspiration for many modern interpretations of mortuary practices. Most such studies have taken Hertz’s schema of secondary funerary rites as their primary focus, but it is his wider frame of reference with its emphasis on the communal, affect...

The article considers the universal-cultural structure of one dialogues Н. Skovoroda – «The grateful Erodius» with a focus on universals culture, namely, alimentary worldview code. analytical separation this code from its close interweaving categories ultimate bases (life, death, immortality) and other codes showed that, in addition to describing specifics nutrition main character work, Erodius...

“Is death necessary?“, asked biologist G. R. Taylor and stated that in 1968 in the USA alone more than a thousand teams of scientists were working on the issue of growing old and the problem of death. Some people are frozen at their death. They want to be revived as soon as a cure for their disease or the aging process has been found. Most of humanity seems to have the desire to live forever. M...

In every mythological story, a quest for immortality and eternality depicts man’s inner fervor for unity with gods and the supreme power. Man seeks full immersion in life and longs for immortality at the same time. In other words, he wants to live both in time and in eternity. The desire for eternity in man shows his ceaseless struggle with time, and even more so an intense fight with death to ...