Word: esotericism
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Not every bookstore-cafe manages quite so well. The Trident Bookseller and Cafe, despite its earnest endeavors (colored chalk on blackboard slates announce the various esoteric sections; a sign in the window reads "Bonsai Trees for Sale"), cannot escape the implications of its gentrified location. Next to the incense and...
This explanation satisfied me for some time. After all, the Judeo-Christian God has been rumored to be a jealous God. And who wouldn't be jealous of people who spend their careers pushing back the borders of knowledge and getting paid ridiculously well for it, not to mention that...
There were no fireworks, no arrows arching toward the torch. Just children, scores of them, scattering like snowflakes, and the strangled cries of some costumed chanters. Innocent and esoteric by turn, the first Olympic opening ceremonies to have their very own 15th century landscape poster introduced the world to what...
While all of Washington, D.C., is absorbed, or so it seems, in esoteric questions about arcane legal concepts like "perjury" and "subornation of perjury"--whatever they mean--the political world is missing the real issue: If some of the seedier snippets leaked from the Tripp-Lewinsky tapes are to be...
This is a particularly vexed matter because Tibetan Buddhism is an unusually charged and esoteric set of practices uncommonly difficult to translate, "a unique blend," as the Buddhist scholar Christmas Humphreys once wrote, "of the noblest Buddhist principles and debased sorcery." Its core, as with all Buddhism, is a belief...