Identifying Similar Mystical Experience within Literature
Karen Kuhn, A. Mickiewicz
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mystical experience |
| Key points | Argues that the mystical writings of Johanna Brandt and Simone Weil, though separated by geography and culture, share similar mystical experiences that can be illuminated through Carl Jung's Red Book and the concept of synchronicity, positioning literature as a tool for identifying such cross-cultural parallels. |
Abstract
Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) was a South African propagandist, spy, writer and prophet. She played a big role in both Afrikaner nationalism and the Anglo-Boer War. Brandt wrote several books including: The Petticoat Commando (1913) and The Grape Cure (1927). Her religious views in her books: The Millennium - A Prophetic Message to the Native Tribes of South Africa (1918) and The Paraclete or Coming World Mother (1939) reflect visions and imagery of the supernatural in Afrikaans literature. The study is part of a Ph.D. focusing on Carl Jung's; The Red Book or Liber Novus (written between 1913 and 1930, published in 2009) as key to the interpretation of the synchronicity within the dialogue of female mystical texts between (1918 - 1939). This study specifically focuses on the similarities between the French mystic; Simone Weil (1909 - 1943) and Joha nna Brandt. By looking at these texts within diverse religions, geographies and cultures, with Jung's theory as interpretation, literature serves as a tool to identify similar mystical experiences.
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 |