Scottish Journal of Theology
December 1, 1979
Jürgen Moltmann
3 citations
Mystical Theology aims to be a ‘wisdom of experience’, not a ‘wisdom of doctrine’. 1 It is not as theology that it is mystical, but in the fact that it brings mystical experience to expression in words. Mystical experience, however, cannot be communicated in doctrinal propositions. So the ‘theology of mystical experience’ always tells only of the way, the journey, the transition to that...
British Journal of Medical Psychology
September 1, 1979
Peter Buckley, Marc Galanter
A contemporary ‘enthusiastic’ religion, the Divine Light Mission (DLM), was studied by the authors in an attempt to elucidate some of the psychological factors underlying the burgeoning appeal of this charismatic religious sect for American youth. The DLM is constituted of followers of the Guru Maharaji, an Indian who first came to the United States in 1972 at the age of 14. Method. The study...
June 1, 1979
R. Hood, James R. Hall, P. Watson et al.
The search for stable personality correlates of mystical experience has been hampered by the use of pathologically oriented personality inventories or those confounded by heavy loadings on mystical experiences. The present research with college students ( n = 118) utilizing the Jackson Personality Inventory, a normatively oriented, psychometrically sound inventory, indicated stable personality...
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
December 1, 1978
L. Eugene Thomas, Pamela E. Cooper
41 citations
The study explored types and incidence of intense experiences reported by normal adults. A structured question developed by Greeley (1974) and an open-ended question asking respondents to describe their experiences were completed by 302 young adults. A third of the respondents indicated on the structured item that they had had an intense spiritual experience, a percentage similar to that found...
September 1, 1978
R. Hood
Ralph W. Hood, Jr., Anticipatory Set and Setting: Stress Incongruities as Elicitors of Mystical Experience in Solitary Nature Situations, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sep., 1978), pp. 279-287
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
July 1, 1978
85 citations
This article presents evidence from a random sample survey of the San Franciscio Bay Area on some of the differences between people who claim to have had intense peak experiences and people who have not had such experiences. The data indicate that most people have had some kind of peak experience, but some people seem clearly to be more oriented toward "peaking" than others. Peakers tend more...
Journal of Psychedelic Drugs
1977
William A. Richards, John Rhead, Francesco B. Dileo et al.
95 citations
(1977). The Peak Experience Variable in DPT-Assisted Psychotherapy with Cancer Patients. Journal of Psychedelic Drugs: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-10.
Religious Studies
December 1, 1976
Charles Cox, Jean W. Cox
Mysticism and the mystical experience seemingly play little or no part in our Western tradition. Certainly there is no mystical tradition in the West such as Zen Buddhism, nor is there any great understanding of or influence from the writings of Heraclitus, Spinoza, or the mystical passages in the early work of Wittgenstein. Mysticism has been generally misunderstood in the West, and it has...
Psychological Reports
December 1, 1976
Ralph W. Hood
The relationship between reported mystical experience and present and anticipated patterns of church participation was investigated in an initial sample of 324 persons. A scale to measure reported mystical experience that allowed for a distinction between the report of mystical experience (Factor I) and its religious interpretation (Factor II) was utilized. Each factor differentially related to...
January 2, 1976
R. Stewart
This study focuses on reported (a) satisfaction in stages of the life cycle; (b) levels of general happiness; and (c) frequency of peak experiences. Participants were 48 undergraduate students (17 males, 31 females) at Laurentian University, Canada. (a)They were asked to indicate past, present, and future satisfaction with the stages in their own life cycle. The following order of satisfaction...