The ambivalence of the Eternity and the Coming in Christian mysticism as a cryptomystical subtext of philosophical thought
Y. Duplinskya, V. A. Friauf
Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy March 22, 2022 DOI: 10.18500/1819-7671-2022-22-1-4-8 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Topics | Mysticism |
| Key points | Argues that Christian mystical experience is superrational in two respects: the "Eternity" shared with all sacred traditions and a unique "Coming" aspect of adoration, understood as a task and expressed through metaphors of co-work and synergy with God. This two-vector structure is claimed to produce fluctuations in rational culture found in no other sacred tradition, splitting philosophical thought into a phenomenological pole of transcendental rotation and a utopian pole. |
Abstract
It is proved that the superrationality of Christian mystical experience qualitatively differs from the superrationality of other mystical traditions. In addition to the superrationality of Eternity as an invariant of all sacred traditions, Christian experience is superrational in the aspect of the Coming state of adoration, which is a task, not a given. This aspect is unique as an attribute of Christian mystical experience only. In the aspect of Eternity, mystical unity with the God is understood in metaphors of rotation, fusion and dissolution. In the aspect of the Coming, unity with the God is understood in the metaphors of “doing”: co-work and synergy with the God. If rational thinking, like culture as a whole, is cryptomythologic and cryptomystical, then the cryptomysticism of thought that grows on the basis of the Christian archetype has its specifics. The result of the irremovable two-vectorness of the Eternity and Сoming of Christian archetype is the fluctuations of rational culture, which were not generated by any other sacred tradition. The apophatic mystery of the Eternity and the Сoming breaks down into two opposite poles in philosophical thought. One pole is associated with the phenomenological tradition of transcendental rotation, the other – with the utopian tradition.
Comparable studies
Other theoretical and historical papers on mysticism, most cited first.
| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| The mystical mind: probing the biology of religious experience | 2000 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Religious and Mystical Experiences as Artifacts of Temporal Lobe Function: A General Hypothesis | 1983 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Problem of Pure Consciousness: Mysticism and Philosophy | 1993 | Edited collection of essays | |
| Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century | 2020 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mysticism and schizophrenia: A phenomenological exploration of the structure of consciousness in the schizophrenia spectrum disorders. | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |