Religious Aspects of the Modern Paradigm of Self-Creation
The article deals with modern holistic concepts of self-creation (SC), which arose on the basis of radically opposite religious models - synergetic anthropology as an attempt to expand and comprehend the spiritual practice of hesychasm (S. S. Khoruzhiy) and the concept of integral spirituality based on Zen Buddhism (K. Wilber). The basic concepts of both points of view are presented: spirit, energy, synergy - in synergistic anthropology; Cosmos, holon, holarchy - in the concept of integral spirituality. SC, represented as climbing up the Ladder of Spirit on the basis of the spiritual practice of hesychasm - is a daring attempt to experiment on oneself, which shows the way to gain the meaning of life. The doctrine that emerges from this practice attempts to overcome its subjectivity by highlighting universal states and experiences: the meaning of life is a mission to the Future, the truth is Love, which allows you to become “hot” in your attitude to the world, the mechanism is the connection of human energies with Divine energy, the realization is an appeal to the deep human ability - “creativity of creativity”, creativity of the second order, Self-creation. The concept of integral spirituality presents SC as a holarchy of actualization that passes through the nine basic levels of human consciousness and eventually comes to impersonality and non-existence, turning into its opposite - the self-deconstruction of man. The main differences between SC in the two types of spiritual practices are discussed in detail.