A strange tongue. Tradition, language and the appropriation of mystical experience in late fourteenth-century England and sixteenth-century Spain. By John D. Green. (Studies in Spirituality. Supplement, 9.) Pp. viii+227 incl. frontispiece and 5 ills. Leuven–Paris–Dudley, MA: Peeters, 2002. €30 (paper). 90 429 1236 7 - Volume 56 Issue 1
This study examined various structural models of mystical experience. Confirmatory factor analysis of the responses of a sample of 191 religious Jewish persons residing in Israel to the Mystical Scale (Hood, 1975) was used to examine and compare various models of mystical experience. In general, multidimensional models provided a better fit to the relations between the Mystical Scale items than...
The fundamental revelations to the founders of the three monotheistic religions, among many other revelation experiences, had occurred on a mountain. These three revelation experiences share many phenomenological components like feeling and hearing a presence, seeing a figure, seeing lights, and feeling of fear. In addition, similar experiences have been reported by non-mystic contemporary...
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with weak (micro Tesla) complex waveform fields have been claimed to evoke the sensed presence of a sentient being in up to 80% in the general population. These findings have had a questionable neurophysiological foundation as the fields are approximately six orders of magnitude weaker than ordinary TMS fields. Also, no independent replication has been...
This article engages with the post-1992 (Rio Earth Summit) writings of Leonardo Boff, one of the most prolific and widely read Brazilian writers in the religious field today. The article first outlines Boff's understanding of the prevailing global market paradigm, guided by 'liberal capitalist' values and at the point of crisis. Boff's appreciation of the emergent 'new science' paradigm as...
Abstract The story I shall tell is a piece of autobiography. But it is not, as you might sup pose, a record of my own mystical experiences. For I do not claim to have had any. It is rather a record of a thought process that led from a childhood interest in religion, through an adolescent interest in mystical experience as a psycho logical phenomenon, to the publication forty years ago in the...
Lorsque les mystiques critiquent l'expérience mystique Les études existantes sur le mysticisme ont souligné la place tenue par l' "expérience" dans l'écriture et la pratique mystiques. Cependant, l'examen de textes issus de traditions mystiques differentes montre que plusieurs auteurs mystiques étaient réservés sur la poursuite de cette expérience. Le présent article examine les diverses...
Application of transcerebral, weak (1 microT) complex magnetic fields and mystical experiences: are they generated by field-induced dimethyltryptamine release from the pineal organ?
Article A Phenomenology of Mystical Experience in 17th-Century English Religious Poetry was published on November 6, 2003 in the journal English and American Studies in German (volume 2002, issue 2003).
The purpose of this paper is to critically explore the nature and ontological and epistemological significance of differences observed in how various cultural traditions describe and explain such experiences. After an initial consideration of definitional issues, the article focuses on the arguments supporting and challenging the idea of mystical experience being a universal phenomenon and a...