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Lumen et Vita June 1, 2018 A. Holmes
By virtue of his insistence on the once and for all revelation of God in Jesus Christ, Karl Barth’s theology has sometimes been perceived as hostile to mysticism and contemplative spirituality. Allegedly, the significance of ongoing encounters with God is lost under the weight of the proclamation of Jesus Christ as the decisive moment of God’s dealing with humankind. A closer reading of Barth,...
Intellectual History of the Islamicate World May 30, 2018 Michael Ebstein 17 citations
Abstract The following article aims at highlighting the mythic elements inherent in Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn al-ʿArabī’s teachings on the Divine names. The article begins with a very general introduction to the subject of Divine names in Islamic mysticism and then proceeds to clarify the meaning of the term “mythic” as it is used in this study. The core of the article is devoted to an examination of...
Oxford Scholarship Online May 24, 2018 Christopher Partridge
This chapter introduces the book’s core ideas and some of the principal issues raised. Beginning with a discussion of Michel Foucault’s understanding of “technologies of the self,” it explores how drugs might be understood as “technologies of transcendence”—technologies that have the power to subvert dominant readings of reality. As such, they are always countercultural. By inducing the...
May 20, 2018 Michael Eigen
Images have often been looked at as second-class citizens in Western thought. For Plato, they were useful to help climb the ladder towards Pure Idea. Sensation, image, feeling were potential facilitators on the way to Pure Form. For Aristotle, the goal was to reach and exercise the pinnacle of cognition, active reason, a divine attribute. In philosophical writings, one could hear sensation and...
May 16, 2018 Donald A. Crosby
This pluralistic spirit is carried forward into Chapter 4 , in which the author discusses four ways of practicing the religious life, the ways of knowledge, devotion, works, and mystical experience. He provides instructive examples of each of these ways, showing how each of them ties into an essential aspect of religion and how each of them affects and interfuses the others. These are modes of...
Trials May 11, 2018 Vera Salvo, Jean L. Kristeller, Jesus Montero-Marin et al.
Background: Mindfulness has been applied in the United States and Europe to improve physical and psychological health; however, little is known about its feasibility and efficacy in a Brazilian population. Mindfulness may also be relevant in tackling obesity and eating disorders by decreasing binge eating episodes-partly responsible for weight regain for a large number of people-and increasing...
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия May 11, 2018 Natalia Vaganova
The initial lines of The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (Rus. Столп и утверждение Истины) in the renowned defi nition of “living religious experience as the only legitimate means of comprehending the dogma” prescribe that philosophical refl ection and theological speculation should always proceed following living life. The latter is considered in the person-oriented aspect as a spiritual...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies May 10, 2018 Rick J. Strassman 9 citations
With an extreme range of terms for psychedelic drugsfrom "schizotoxic" to "entheogenic" -"psychedelic," nonetheless remains the most salient one.These substances manifest or disclose aspects of the mind of those who take them as well as the mind of those who study them.Proponents for the innumerable terms for these drugs are all able to adduce supportive evidence.Necessarily, this evidence is a...
May 8, 2018 Nigel Hamilton, Aaron Balick, Alexandra Chalfont et al.
In David&s;s initiation dream, he has a glimpse into the awakening ahead and finds that: "lights and colours of every hue are all manifest in this vast heavenly space". Darkness is acting as a veil protecting us from premature exposure to the hidden, psychic forces of our inner world. Mystical experiences of colour and light have in common the sense of attention and consciousness being totally...
May 8, 2018 Raul Moncayo
Sigmund Freud conceived of psychoanalytic practice as different from that of priests and pastoral or educational counsellors. The deadly aspect of mystical experience destroys identity in the sense that it destroys the illusory or imaginary notion of ego. Zen practice is commonly referred to as leading to an ego-death. Psychoanalysis, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in particular, contains a very...