Religions
November 26, 2018
Tatyana Lifintseva, Dmitry S. Tourko
1 citation
In this article, the authors investigate ontological strategies in Meister Eckhart’s metaphysics, which remounts Neoplatonism and the Corpus Areopagiticum, and in two schools of Indian philosophical tradition, the Advaita Vedanta and Early Buddhism. Along with differences in the anthropology, epistemology, and soteriology of these traditions, we can find similar strategies of ontological...
Oxford Scholarship Online
November 22, 2018
A. Milbank
Radcliffe’s Anglican orthodoxy is established in Chapter 4, along with her attempt through her fiction to offer a theology of mediation and participation. She works with Shaftesbury’s Platonic moral realism in contrast to Mrs Barbauld’s associationist view of taste and develops a mode of mystical ascent through the interplay of vertical and horizontal experiences. The sublime allows ascent...
Oxford University Press eBooks
November 22, 2018
Eitan P. Fishbane
11 citations
This book studies the Zohar as a work of literature. While the Zohar has long been recognized as a signal achievement of mystical theology, myth, and exegesis, this monograph presents a poetics of zoharic narrative, a morphology of mystical storytelling. Topics examined include mysticism and literature; fiction and pseudepigraphy; diaspora and exile; dramatic monologue and the representation of...
Ingenium. Revista Electrónica de Pensamiento Moderno y Metodología en Historia de las Ideas
November 19, 2018
Andrea Noel Paul
Humanism and philosophy in the Renaissance recover the ideal of poetic theology [ theologia poetica ] a knowledge where essential truths of mystic-religious nature were hidden under an allegorical veil. The poet is, then, a theologian philosopher, essential part of an ancient tradition that served the ends of true faith. In this sense, the restoration of the privileged place of poetics by the...
Национальный психологический журнал
November 19, 2018
Olga V. Gordeeva
Background. Near-death experience is an altered state of consciousness at the time when the person is on the threshold of death. Near-death experience has a specific structure which includes such elements as extra corporal experience, moving in a dark tunnel, seeing bright light, meetings with the deceased persons, panoramic life review and many others. The condition is quite common nowadays...
Phanês Journal For Jung History
November 19, 2018
Jelena Martinovic
1 citation
C.G. Jung’s work has had a noticeable impact on conceptions about death and the dying experience, as well as on the therapeutic work methods that deal with anxiety, depression or terminal illnesses. This article analyses the reception of C.G. Jung’s work in the United States during the time period 1960-80. It examines ways in which Jung’s concepts were discussed and applied by psy practitioners...
Cancer Nursing
November 16, 2018
Jouhayna Bajjani-Gebara, P. Hinds, Kathleen C Insel et al.
BACKGROUND Childhood cancer profoundly impacts the well-being of many parental caregivers in the United States yearly. Empirical evidence is extensive for negative well-being and scarce for positive well-being in this population. OBJECTIVE Study aims were to (1) describe resilience, self-transcendence, and positive (general well-being) and negative well-being (depression and anxiety); (2)...
International Journal of Psychology and Psychoanalysis
November 14, 2018
Hesselink Jan M Keppel
7 citations
The impact of priests and their institutions is vanishing in our culture. This depletes the society from religious experiences. However, many are looking into new ways of experiencing the essence of life. One of the new sources inspiring people to reconnect with themselves and with nature can be found in shamanism. Since some decades now rituals from the Amazon based on herbal products such as...
PLoS One
November 7, 2018
Cassandra Vieten, Helané Wahbeh, B Rael Cahn et al.
124 citations
The science of meditation has grown tremendously in the last two decades. Most studies have focused on evaluating the clinical effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions, neural and other physiological correlates of meditation, and individual cognitive and emotional aspects of meditation. Far less research has been conducted on more challenging domains to measure, such as group and...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
November 6, 2018
Celia E.T. Kourie
There is no doubt that we live in an interspiritual age, although this is not unequivocally accepted in all sectors of religious and non-religious discourse. However, although, in the past, theological debate was primary, there has now been a welcome shift to shared experience. Interspiritual engagement has as its aim a deep appreciation of, respect for and engagement with the spiritual...