نشریه مطالعات معنوی
پیاپی 17-18 (پاییز و زمستان 1394)

In some cases, Krishnamurti's thoughts are similar to Lao-tzu's ideas, the great philosopher of China. According to Krishnamurti's attitude, humans are full of rejoicing at the beginning, but they afflicted in the society. The best way to rejoice is to throw away the present artificiality of civilization and live in connection with nature. Krishnamurti refers to the issue of knowledge in the context of his statements, and finally his point is that man should be abandoned from all consciousness to be free. In Krishnamurti's view, it is the task of education to grow the person in harmony. In this way, the person becomes "himself". His excessive insistence on introversion, in particular the doctrine of freedom from subjectivity, has transformed his view into one of the most indifferent views on social concerns. Krishnamurti and his followers, when they are aware of man's frivolous engagements and show him the depth of negligence, are alert to their audience, but their point of view, when they read the human being completely into contemplation, silence and disobedience, the followers of this school are wandering, because the only fundamental problem of man is not consciousness and originality.

By having a glance at the history we can see that the contrast between spiritualties is not only for our time. Many wars is formed throughout the history, because of spiritual oppositions. Many scholars believe that by scientific discovery and opening doors in the contemporary world - which in some areas is amazing - despite little comfort, failed to give complete peace to mankind. Not even a single day in which the rising crime and inatención to social norms does not hurt human heart. Social sciences researchers believe that human beings after a period of abandonment of spirituality, received to the conclusion that technology is not a remedy for all problems and called for reconciliation with their spirituality. International studies have reported a tendency of humans to spirituality, but through the unwanted or malicious interpretations of spirituality the conflict has been created between different types of spirituality. Hence, the need to an index for knowing true and authentic spirituality is noteworthy. In this article the author tries to explain that different interpretations of spirituality caused conflict between spiritualties. The author also tries to determine a criteria for the recognition of true or real spirituality from unreal once and protect it from deviation. According to this research, the key feature of spirituality which differs between real and non-real spirituality is epic.

Anthropology is a part of a worldview as well as a significant part of religious knowledge, which helps a person to avoid loss and degeneration and to remain safe to achieve salvation. Understanding the human excellence and his abilities is the basis of understanding of the most important issues in anthropology. If we have a materialistic worldview, we will judge about humanity and his virtues and vices in a way which completely different from the situation that we have a divine worldview to will judge about man and his personality elements and his nature. Naturally, our moral system varies according to each of these two worldviews. Those who only see the material aspects of mankind, in fact, have recognized the smallest part of human existence, while the moral and human principles must be examined on the basis of the identification of all human existence (body and soul). The author in this paper tries to express a part of the structure and abilities of human being which guide the man in his life and behavior based on religious teachings.

The purpose of this paper is to review the views and claims of the Raelian movement. This review is presented with the analysis of Prometheus's film, which is based on Raelian movement's thought. Rael claims that he continues the path of the prophets but this research has been tried to prove the absurdity of this claim based on holy verses and rational arguments. The findings suggest that the Raelian movement not only has any relation with the teachings of prophets in great religions, but is a sect innovated by colonialist who are trying to promote it in various ways including great investment and the attractive films.

In the structure of mysticism of the Circle, devil plays a prominent role, as one of foundations this movement. Growth of the followers of this spiritual movement and the harmfulness of its beliefs, especially about the special position of devil, make this critical essay so necessity. The question is that, what is the role of the devil in the circular mystic system? From the point of view of the mysticism of the circle, the devil, which prevented from the prostrate to mankind through the design of the divine mission, can control man. He is an angel who has a special mission in humans. These mystic beliefs in the mysticism of circle encountered with some rational and transcendental critique.