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Moshé Idel

3 papers in the library · 40 citations · publishing 1999-2011

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Ecstatic Kabbalah as an Experiential Lore

Yale University Press eBooks May 17, 2011 Moshé Idel

This chapter describes how some modern scholars have focused their attention on theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah, a preeminently Spanish type of Kabbalah, and how they have pointed out the “casuistical” nature of Kabbalah as a whole. Part of this evaluation has to do with the marginalization of Abulafia's Kabbalah in the scholarship after the mid-1950s, despite Gershom Scholem's...

Why revelations have occurred on mountains? Linking mystical experiences and cognitive neuroscience.

Medical Hypotheses 2005 Shahar Arzy, Moshé Idel, Théodor Landis et al.

The fundamental revelations to the founders of the three monotheistic religions, among many other revelation experiences, had occurred on a mountain. These three revelation experiences share many phenomenological components like feeling and hearing a presence, seeing a figure, seeing lights, and feeling of fear. In addition, similar experiences have been reported by non-mystic contemporary...