The article addresses whether Christians can employ classical yoga or Zen-Buddhism meditation techniques to attain Christian perfection by invoking the spiritual doctrines of the Carmelite saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Jesus, with particular emphasis on John of the Cross’s concept of ‘nothingness’. It investigates the interpretation of this term within these three traditions to...
Both the newly published writings of Edmund Husserl as well as the still unpublished manuscripts force us to reinterpret his thoughts, as in their light we find numerous anthropological and – what is more - mystical implications in the reflection of the philosopher. Phenomenology can, in fact, be read as a process of autoconstitution of the entity in its adequate being, i.e. its laborious...