4 papers in the library · 4 citations · publishing 2010-2016
The Gnostic New Age September 27, 2016 April D. Deconick
Initiatory structure of Gnostic initiation; therapeutic goals of Gnostic initiation; ritual practices and positive cognitive changes. Engages the movie, "Altered States."
Columbia University Press eBooks September 27, 2016 April D. Deconick
Examines rise of Gnostic Spirituality within historical environment of shamanic practices and mystery initiation; Engages the movie, “The Truman Show.”
Cambridge University Press eBooks April 18, 2016 April D. Deconick
Introduction Early Christian mysticism customarily has been understood as a relatively late Platonic philosophical product of patristic theology, marked particularly by Denys the Areopagite (also known as Pseudo-Dionysius, he is thought to have written ca. 500 CE). Denys taught the apophatic way, in which the soul escapes the world to unite with the Unknowable God. The first generations of...
SBL Press eBooks January 25, 2010 April D. Deconick 4 citations
And what mortal person is it who is able To ascend on high, To ride on wheels, To descend below, To search out the inhabited world, To walk on the dry land, To gaze at His splendor, To dwell with His crown, To be transformed by His glory, To recite praise, To combine letters, To recite their names, To have a vision of what is above, To have a vision of what is below,To know the explanation of...