Abstract: The evangelical anoretic was a Protestant whose experience of self, other, and world was informed by the vocabularies of an inner-worldly, mystical, pastoral theology. Those who attempted excessive fasting, or even fasting unto death, did so as part of a directed spiritual exercise that was to purify sin in a moment when God had withdrawn his love. The Protestant mystic fully expected...
Life Sciences1994W R Ravis, A K Valaer, D Brzozowski et al.
The metabolism and disposition of N-hydroxy-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (N-OH MDA) was studied by utilizing rat liver slices as well as by intravenous pharmacokinetic studies in rats. In the liver slice experiments, N-OH MDA (16 micrograms/ml) was incubated with rat liver slices and the disappearance of N-OH MDA and the appearance of MDA were observed over 2 hours. Drug and metabolites were...
The theo-monistic experience explains the relationship between monistic and theistic mystical experiences. Considered in terms of personal and spiritual transformative processes, the two different experiences are effectively bridged together. The monistic experience finds its culmination and meaning in elements associated with theistic conceptions; so the monistic experience is legitimately and...
Article exploring a theory that the first stages of transcendental experiences might be induced by blocking or saturating sensory input to the brain at the level of the hippocampus. Many accounts of kundalini awakenings are consistent with this theory, as is an extended version of Itzhak Bentov's physio-kundalini model.
Although constitutive of extremely diverse theological and philosophical developments, the Christian and Hindu mystic traditions we have examined in the preceding chapters exhibit an experiential typology that stresses an identification with the Divine that is achieved in the transformative processes associated with monistic mysticism. Theistic experiences and activities culminate from the...
1 COMPABATIVE i ama Volume 28Summer 1994Number 2 Ecstasy and Peak-Experience: W. B. Yeats, Marghanita Laski, and Abraham Maslow Natalie Crohn Schmitt In a world beset by realism, science, and the workaday, W. B. Yeats set about inventing a dramatic form to induce ecstatic experience in his audience and dedicated his long dramatic career to that effect.1 He thought of his art, he said, as but...
Nabokov Studies, 1 (1994), 155-77. J. B. SISSON (Edina, MN, U.S.A.; NABOKOV'S COSMIC SYNCHRONIZATION AND "SOMETHING ELSE" Central to his aesthetic and to an understanding of his work is the concept that Nabokov labels "cosmic synchronization."1 This concept is a formulation of the posited desire of the artist to apprehend the entire universe by an awareness expanding rapidly outward from the...
Article detailing a personal mystical experience that led the author to the belief that a little known structure in the center of the spinal cord, Reissner's fiber, is identical with the anatomical entity described by kundalini yoga. The author's struggles to understand the meaning of that experience have led him to believe that an understanding of the deeper realities underlying quantum...
Article detailing a personal mystical experience that led the author to the belief that a little known structure in the center of the spinal cord, Reissner's fiber, is identical with the anatomical entity described by kundalini yoga. The author's struggles to understand the meaning of that experience have led him to believe that an understanding of the deeper realities underlying quantum...
Le « spectre » des psychothérapies contemporaines se déploie du behaviorisme, qui ne veut pas tenir compte de l’intériorité (de l’esprit) et s’en tient aux comportements, jusqu’aux thérapies transpersonnelles qui font accéder l’homme aux sommets de la connaissance et de la compassion. Entre ces deux extrêmes, on trouve la psychanalyse, dont on se demande si son idéal d’amour et de travail peut...