DIMENSI PENGALAMAN MISTIK (MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE) DAN CIRI-CIRINYA
January 31, 2014 DOI: 10.14421/rejusta.2014.1001-04 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mystical experience |
| Key points | Proposes that mysticism, exemplified by Sufism, offers a way to discover the nature of religious experience through consciousness of the One Reality, distinct from adopting a historical religious formulation. |
Abstract
T her e seem to be two ways to discover the nature of religious experience. One way is to appropriate the historical formulation of one religion, denomination, or school of religious thought. Another way is to start from mystical experience or Sufism. Such is the case with Sufism, the generally accepted name for Islamic mysticism. To approach its partial meaning we have to ask ourselves first, what mysticism means. That mysticism contains something mysterious, not to be reached by ordinar y means or by intellectual effort, is understood from the root common to the words mystic and myster y, the Greek myein, “to close the eyes”. Mysticism has been called “the great spiritual current which goes through all religions”. In its widest sense it may be defined as the consciousness of the One Reality – be it called Wisdom, Light, Love or Nothing.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on mystical experience, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious and Mystical Experiences as Artifacts of Temporal Lobe Function: A General Hypothesis | 1983 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death | 1969 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Vectorial Cerebral Hemisphericity as Differential Sources for the Sensed Presence, Mystical Experiences and Religious Conversions | 1993 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The epistemic innocence of psychedelic states. | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine | 1982 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |