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A K Peters/CRC Press eBooks October 12, 2023 Sasho Kalajdzievski
Mathematicians are by trade predisposed to be open-minded and to consider the alternatives to the underlying axioms of a widely accepted theory. This is one of the reasons why they are disproportionately represented in the broad mystic realm. Moreover, they are aware of the philosophical and mathematical perils of non-critical acceptance of claims widely accepted as obvious or evident....
A K Peters/CRC Press eBooks October 12, 2023 Sasho Kalajdzievski
The main subject of Chapter 11 is the French versatile scientist Blaise Pascal. We note his contributions to mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He is also credited with the construction of the first calculator. He experienced a two-hour-long vision that may have been triggered by an accident causing a near-death experience (NDE). During the vision, he perceived and communicated with an...
October 12, 2023 Sasho Kalajdzievski
Cardano was a polymath who practiced medicine. In mathematics, he is remembered through his publication of formulas for solving cubic and quintic equations. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of basic probability theory. We present a summary of his adventurous life. Cardano was a mystic in many ways. Since his childhood, he ‘hallucinated’ various objects and scenes. He had frequent...
آداب الكوفة October 12, 2023 Amoo Rezaei Farhad
Religious experience and mystical intuition are neither equal, nor synonym and on the other hand, they are not contradictory at all. With respect to structure and constitutions, they have common and different elements. Being intrinsic is one of the common elements of the experience and intuition and consequently, one of the common elements of them is heart. Process of reception by heart is such...
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī October 10, 2023 Zahra Pakzad, Fatemeh Kolahchian, Mohammad Irani
In the definitions of poetry, three elements of emotion, imagination, and music are mentioned. Persian prose texts have used more or less poetic elements in different periods. Sufi and mystical works, according to their goals and themes, have had a greater tendency towards poetic features, to the extent that understanding the subtleties of meaning and aesthetic expressions of these texts is...
PsyArXiv October 10, 2023 Zhuo Job Chen preprint
The studies of mysticism have traditionally emphasized a common core centered around experiences of ego dissolution and unity. However, this focus on a central set of experiences tends to downplay the non-central aspects, resulting in a limited understanding that may not encompass many other types of extraordinary experiences. This paper proposes a layered hierarchy model of mysticism, which...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2023 John Blofeld
Poverty of the tragic kind found, say, in India or Bangladesh demands vast-scale collective action and so does the terrifyingly rapid deterioration of the environment; but boredom and discontent in the midst of plenty are a problem for the individual and it is that the ancient mystical traditions may be looked to for an answer. Well, mysticism offers no broad remedies for modern ills. From the...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2023 John Blofeld
It is widely accepted that learning and the cultivation of mystical intuition do not go well together. Pietists who hold that scriptural study is the foundation of all goodness and scholars who maintain that learning is the road to wisdom, like those who expect salvation from good works, are generally not mystically inclined. Nevertheless, in China there have been Buddhist monks and laymen who...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2023 John Blofeld
In Buddhist circles in China and Tibet there are many stories current about a marvellous gem that, once located, fulfils its finder’s every wish. There is a religion beyond religions which leads directly to the grasping of the wish-fulfilling gem. For want of a better term, it may be called the mystic’s quest. For, whereas Christian and Moslem mystics have generally been looked upon askance by...
Qeios October 7, 2023 Patrizio Tressoldi, Jeffrey Long preprint
The aim of this study is to replicate Long & Perry’s[1] God study using a more updated database and different inclusion criteria. The descriptions of God’s and Jesus’ characteristics as observed by 303 Near-death or Near-death-like experiencers were analyzed for their frequency both in the whole sample and divided by the participants’ religious experience. Both in the whole sample and in the...