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Brahma and Vishnu
Explore the creation myth of Hinduism with Brahman, Brahma, and Vishnu, the preserver god who plays tricks and manipulates through his maya.
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- 6 min
Primacy of Paradox and an intervening Primer on Paradox
Handelman and Shulman (1997) tell us that “Indic cosmology is imbued with playful properties of ludic paradox” (p. 37)—try saying that three
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- 2 min
Where Does Play Fit in the Scheme of Things?
In mainstream monotheistic cosmologies, play is a bottom-up affair. The ludic is often formed in opposition to or as a negation of the orde
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- 2 min
Go East Young (Okay Well not so Young) Woman… to a More Ludic Way of Seeing
The whole One God concept of the big three monotheisms, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam seems too limiting and rigid. I imagine a kind of
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- 8 min
Great Moments of Western Play or Play’s Greatest Hits
D. L. Miller (1970) not only discusses the history of play and game theory since Homo Ludens, but also brings us back to the origin of ideas
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- 2 min
The Play’s the Thing—A Persistent Pervasive Notion
Play, Huizinga (1944/1955) argues, is older than culture. Some of our animal ancestors have been very playful indeed.
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- 3 min
Inquiring Minds Want to Know:Is it Just One Big Divine Oops?
Just what is the nature of this play? Did the Divine know what it was doing? Could this all be one horrible mistake? As we have just seen a
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- 3 min
Mechanics of Trance-Endence? — To Find a Way Out!
In the “Haunted Mansion” at Disneyland, after entering you are shown into a room, and then the walls close, and as the room begins to lower
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- 2 min
Getting Involved
It's very involved, actually, and literally. As we have seen, according to Hindu philosophy, the phenomenal world, which we take to be real
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- 7 min
Maya At The Movies
As participators in the creative, transformative power of the imagination, we make our own illusory reality, "mini-maya" through visual arts
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