Wybrane niekatolickie teorie związane z przeżyciem mistycznym
Łódzkie Studia Teologiczne January 28, 2026 Piotr Kaczmarek
Non-Catholic philosophical approaches to mysticism often reduce it to a dimension of inner life—intellect, will, or feelings—and detach it from God, adopting an atheistic or agnostic stance that treats religious experience as a subjective, anthropocentric phenomenon. The morphology of religion school, notably M. Eliade and phenomenologists, identifies a common denominator in religious experience: the dialectic of the sacred and profane. This suggests that supernatural experience is natural and inscribed in human nature from the beginning, not a product of evolution, mental dysfunction, or social conditions, but a natural reaction to contact with the Numinosum. The theory of altered states of consciousness (ASC) remains underdeveloped, lacking precise terminology, and attempts to unify diverse phenomena into a single ASC model face accusations of reductionism and hasty generalizations.