Document Type : Promotional article

Author

• Seyyed Ali Seraj

associate professor in persian language and literature, neyshabur university

Abstract

Following the foundations of the flow of modernity and the positivism paradigm on the level of human life, moral crises in various dimensions, social anomalies were formed in the epistemology of relativism in the Western world. Consequently, its intellectual foundations of thought were strongly criticized by rival schools, even in the West itself. On this basis, the leaders of the capitalist system, to consolidate their epistemic foundations, this time, with another element called mysticism, have tried to consolidate their attitude and worldview, which apparently sought to achieve psychological tranquility of people. The story of Rhonda Byrne Secret, including the works on this theme that has received much attention in recent years and has found many fans. The method and approach of this work are that a kind of mystical journey and believes that human by focusing on thought and perseverance, hope and wish, attention to the consciousness of beings and love and self-knowledge, can achieve all its aspirations and material desires. In this research, the descriptive-analytical method has been used to investigating and adapting the elements of this work with Persian mystical and educational works. In summary, the research findings show that although the effect of themes is in common with the mystical works of Persian literature, in the main purpose and main theme of the work, and due to the attention paid only to material issues and human desires, are in line with the objectives of the capitalist system as the main axis of modernity.

Keywords

• capitalism
• alienation
• crisis of meaning
• mystery
• mysticism