Being refers to anything we can think or talk about. It can include living beings, as well as tangible objects and intangible concepts. Anything that “is” can be considered a being.

The medieval period was highlighted by the growth of Christianity in the Western world. Aristotle’s notion of God as the highest being sparked the studies of Christian theologians, such as Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, mystics such as Meister Eckart, and pre-modern philosophers like Leibniz, Spinoza and Hegel.

Heidegger and Deleuze were the pre-eminent Western inquirers into Being in modern times. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) suggested an “overthrow” of metaphysics because he believed that philosophers from Aristotle onwards had forgotten to inquire what Being really meant on its own.

After failing to satisfactorily answer the central question on the meaning of Being in Being and Time, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) abandoned philosophical language and adopted a writing style that encouraged poiesis, where something is brought into being that did not exist before.

Gilles Deleuze (1925-95) exposed a major assumption underlying the West’s inquiry into Being: it had emphasized identity at the cost of difference.

The worship of the Mother Goddess is one of the oldest traditions of the world. In ancient India, the goddess was considered the supreme power (Shakti) responsible for the creation, sustenance and dissolution of the world.