History and theory of religions. Features of Russian spirituality (the most important)

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55. Features of Russian spirituality

A special role in the development of the worldview of the new era belongs to Russia - due to its special metaphysical status. The point of view has already been expressed more than once that Russia is a kind of bridge between East and West and has features of both East and West. There is no need to talk about the closeness of Orthodoxy, with its principles of mystical contemplation, to Eastern doctrines. This closeness has already been investigated more than once, and it is all the more significant as it concerns mainly spiritual practice, and not just dogmas, although in the theory of deification and in the theory of dogmatic restraint Orthodoxy obviously approaches Eastern teachings.

If we talk about Russian spirituality, then quite deep areas of intersection with the Eastern approach are clearly visible here. This is, first of all, the problem of the inner "I" of a person - Russian tradition, as you know, is inherent in the search for "I" - the abyss and secrets of the human soul. The trends of this search in Russia differ in many respects from those in India. However, this search for the true inner "I" of a person has a number of similarities with the Eastern approach.

Russia, while remaining an Orthodox country, has absorbed and can still absorb, both on the esoteric and exoteric levels, the deepest features of the thinking of the East, especially India. These features, these features of thinking and spirit, which go deep into the spiritual relationship between Russia and India, can become and are becoming part of modern Russian culture. Without a doubt, this "Easternness" is refracted and processed in a peculiar way in accordance with Russian spiritual experience.

However, despite its deep inner closeness to the East, Russia is not spiritually separated by the "Chinese wall" from the West - if only because it has been a Christian country for a thousand years and the "collective unconscious", that is, the "soul" of the Russian people, was formed under the decisive influence of the Christian religion in its most authentic - Orthodox form.

Thus, the Russian people spiritually reworked and, as it were, fused within themselves into a single organic whole, both East and West, while retaining all their spiritual identity and not belonging to either one or the other. It is natural, therefore, that the most significant attempts at a global worldview synthesis of East and West, as well as religion, philosophy, science and creation on this basis, meeting the needs of the time of the worldview of the new era, were made, first of all, by thinkers who were formed in the bosom of Russian culture. .

Author: Pankin S.F.

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