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Spiritus September 1, 2011 Brenna Moore
Reviewed by: Modernists and Mystics Brenna Moore (bio) Modernists and Mystics. Edited by C.J.T. Talar. Washington D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. 152 pp. $44.95 The term "Catholic modernist" typically conjures images of turn-of-the century marginalized pariahs, fixated on the Church's relationship with critical exegesis, philosophy, or science. C. J.T. Talar challenges...
Acta Orientalia September 1, 2011 Ferenc Csirkés 1 citation
The paper analyses eschatological motifs in a few poems from Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī’s Dīvān. In them the poet integrates two seemingly disparate, perhaps antagonistic themes: the historicity of the Last Judgement, the end of all times, and the fundamental ahistoricity of the mystical experience. Rūmī handles the motif of the Resurrection and the Last Judgement as a poetic topos or as an allegory of...
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education September 1, 2011 Abraham Sussman, Mitchell Kossak 1 citation
Abstract This chapter discusses the psychology of the inner life and how music as meditation can tap into unitive states of being that lead to inner wisdom.
Journal of Analytical Psychology September 1, 2011 John Dourley 5 citations
The paper amplifies Jung's psychology of ground associated with the culmination of the alchemical process in the unus mundus. It argues that Jung and Dorn identify the experience of the ground with the experience of divinity as the common originary source of individual and totality. It notes the monistic and pantheistic implications of the experience and goes on to amplify the experience...
Sociology of religion August 22, 2011 Nancy Tatom Ammerman 101 citations
When most people think of Cambridge, Massachusetts, they probably think about the prominent institutions of higher education located there and imagine it as among the most secular places in North America. Who knew that around every corner one might find spiritual pilgrims of every sort exploring their past lives and chakras? Courtney Bender's choice of location for this study of “individual...
Medieval Mystical Theology August 19, 2011 David Lewin 8 citations
The recurring narrative of the relinquishment of human will animates the spiritual discourses of almost every mystical tradition. But contemporary discussions of spirituality gravitate towards exasperation when acknowledging the radical impotence of human agents, while much modern philosophy has found itself unable to think beyond the aporia of freedom and determinism.The ability to mediate...
Medieval Mystical Theology August 19, 2011 Joseph Milne
Through an exploration of medieval Christian cosmology it is argued that an aspect of Christian mysticism emerges which has been submerged by modern materialist cosmology. There is thus a disparity between the ‘inner’ aspect of mystical experience and the ‘outer’ conception of nature and the universe. Through this disparity ‘religion’ has been relegated to the interior life and the cosmos to...
Educational Media Reviews Online August 8, 2011 Wendy Highby
Distributed by Kino Lorber Edu, 333 West 39 St, Suite 503, New York, NY 10018; 212-629-6880Produced by Alex Mar, Nicholas ShumakerDirected by Alex Mar2010, DVD, color, 81 min. American Mystic is an ethnographic profile of three young adults, each following a distinctively North American religious path. Chuck lives in Rapid City, South Dakota and participates in the Sun Dance tradition of the...
Pragmatics & Cognition July 26, 2011 Tom Froese, Ezequiel Alejandro Di Paolo 285 citations
There is a small but growing community of researchers spanning a spectrum of disciplines which are united in rejecting the still dominant computationalist paradigm in favor of the enactive approach . The framework of this approach is centered on a core set of ideas, such as autonomy, sense-making, emergence, embodiment, and experience. These concepts are finding novel applications in a diverse...
Oxford University Press eBooks July 18, 2011 Rüdiger Seesemann
This chapter offers a micro-history of the early community in Senegal, drawing on letters by Ibrahim Niasse that give unique insights into the movement's formative years. The sources show how Niasse was forced to reign in the excesses of a few overzealous followers, whose flouting of the rules of the Sufi path invited much criticism from outsiders. The mounting tensions lead to the next...