Mystical Experience and Aesthetic Experience: Affirmation of Incarnate Being
S. Navarro, V. Castañeda, M. Acero, E. Peña
August 3, 2017 DOI: 10.18566/cueteo.v44n101.a02 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mystical experience |
| Key points | Argues that mystical and aesthetic experience are meaningfully connected, and that both resist a mechanistic worldview by inviting an availability to the Other that becomes real human presence. Drawing on Gabriel Marcel, the authors propose that this availability lets the incarnate person participate in a permanent dialogue with the world and makes existence more satisfactory. |
Abstract
The article aims to account for the meaningful connection between mystical experience and aesthetic experience. The conceptual basis of the article is found in the philosophical thought of Gabriel Marcel. His unsystematic philosophy from the standpoint of aesthetics and mysticism– offers a particular perspective that makes possible to propose an alternative philosophical-theological reflection, which might come into contact with the concerns of the contemporary human being. The secular era reveals an individual who is generally unavailable to establish relationships with the Other/other, that what is constantly inviting the individual to an encounter. The aesthetical and mystical experiences, by resisting the mechanistic fantasy of the world, invite us to a subjective reflection of the existence that is always available. The availability proposed by both forms of experience is translated into a real human presence. According to this viewpoint, the human being is able to participate in a permanent dialogue with the world without ignoring or destroying the possibility of mystery. Therefore, the availability of the individual as an incarnate being who actually participates in the world makes his or her existence more satisfactory.
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 |