Oxford University Press eBooks
December 23, 2011
Steven Sutcliffe
Abstract The “new age” has been both difficult to specify and tricky to theorize in the standard terms of the academic study of religion. This chapter begins by looking at how elements of the new age stack up with the limited model of a rationalized bureaucratic organization supplied by the “world religions” taxonomy. It further locates the new age in the discursive drift from mysticism to...
Psychiatric News
December 16, 2011
Joan Arehart-Treichel
Even if ingesting the hallucinogen psilocybin can increase positive feelings of bliss or oneness with the universe, it is questionable whether such feelings represent authentic mystical experience or spiritual growth.
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
December 1, 2011
Zhuo Chen, Qi Wen, Ralph W. Hood et al.
54 citations
This study explores the phenomenological structure of mystical experience among 139 Chinese Pure Land and Chan Buddhist monks and nuns. Semi-structured interviews, thematic coding, and statistical analyses demonstrated that Stace's common facets of mysticism as measured by Hood's Mysticism Scale (M Scale) successfully described Buddhist experience as modified by Buddhist doctrines. Confirmatory...
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
October 1, 2011
Michael Hodges
2 citations
Research Article| October 01 2011 The Claims for Mysticism in The Varieties of Religious Experience Michael Hodges Michael Hodges Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2011) 25 (4): 396–411. https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.25.4.0396 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael...
Irish Theological Quarterly
September 29, 2011
Jeremy W. Blackwood
3 citations
Christian mystical writing expresses symbolically the complexities of conscious experience identified by Bernard Lonergan as ‘differentiations of consciousness.’ In order for the insights of such literature to penetrate theoretic systematic theology, there must be effected a theoretic account of conscious experience that is of sufficient depth to account for the differentiations witnessed to by...
The Counseling Psychologist
September 21, 2011
Rockey Robbins, Ji Hong, Aaron M. Jennings
10 citations
This article employs a qualitative case study approach to describe the views and perspectives of a folk healer (White Bear) regarding spiritual healing. White Bear argues for a mobile, in-the-moment form of diagnosis and a “pause,” in which the mind ceases to tyrannize and the healer is no longer absorbed in his or her emotions. He contends that a healer can benefit from aligning with spirits...
Tattva - Journal of Philosophy
August 26, 2011
Patrick Menneteau
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Kanz Philosophia : A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism
August 20, 2011
Abulfazel Kiashemshaki
One of the most elemental discussions in ‘irfân nadzâri (theoretical mysticism), in the section where its adherents discuss ontology, is the debate surrounding the degrees of God’s manifestation. The reason for this is that in the mystic’s view real existence, or the reality of existence, is the existence of the Truth (i.e. God) who manifests Himself in the degrees and mirrors that are the...
Journal of Islamic Studies
August 12, 2011
Arthur F. Buehler
This monograph is written by an experienced practitioner of a Malaysian ‘embodied war magic or warrior religion’ (p. vii) called silat. The author approaches the subject anthropologically, seeking to integrate theories of embodiment, magic, and performance with indigenous categories of Malay animism, shamanism, and ritual. ‘Performance of enchantment’ and ‘enchantment of performance’ are...
Tattva - Journal of Philosophy
July 8, 2011
Thomas Manikkam
Contemporary Sciences Offer Insights for a 'cosmo-theandric' Mysticism
Tattva - Journal of Philosophy
June 24, 2011
Jonathan Weidenbaum
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Tattva - Journal of Philosophy
May 13, 2011
Bernard Mcginn
"NO ABSTRACT"
مجلة الآداب للعلوم الانسانية - جامعة تعز
May 11, 2011
Mohammed Ahmad Al-Shamiri
This paper is a humble attempt to describe elements of "Alienation" and "Mysticism" in two great creative works by two eminent poets and mystics, Gibran Kahlil Gibran's (1883-1931) A Tear and A Smile and Rabindranath Tagore's (1861-1941) Gitanjali. It is a comparative study of Kahlil Gibran's A Tear and A Smile and Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali. It is an appraisal of their sublime poetic...
Studies in Christian-Jewish Relations
April 21, 2011
Andrew Vogel Ettin, Ulrike Wiethaus
The essay presents a dialogic, co-authored reflection on the uses of Jewish and Christian mystical texts in exploring post-Shoah possibilities for Jewish-Christian encounter and dialogue, specifically in the context of the college classroom.The authors explore Buber’s thesis that the heart of each religion is to be found in its mystical dimension, and address the lack of scholarly attention to...
Philosophia
March 14, 2011
David Woodruff Smith
6 citations
Pike’s phenomenology of mystical experiences articulates sharply where theological content may enter the structure of Christian mystics’ experiences (as characterized in their own words). Here we look to Buddhist (and other) accounts of “pure” or “nibbanic” consciousness attained in experiences of deep meditation. A contemporary “modal” model of inner awareness is considered whereby a form of...
Shofar
March 1, 2011
Eliezer Lorne Segal
Reviewed by: The Origins of Jewish Mysticism Eliezer Segal The Origins of Jewish Mysticism, by Peter Schäfer. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. 398 pp. €99.00. The Mishnah (Hagigah 2:1) identified a number of topics in the rabbinic curriculum that could not be taught openly, among which the most secret was "the work of the chariot," the Ma'aseh Merkavah. It is clear that this esoteric discipline...
Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine
January 13, 2011
Peter Schäfer
This chapter examines the origins of Jewish mysticism and the Hekhalot liteature. The findings do not confirm the trend in modern scholarship which locates the origins of Jewish mysticism in the Qumran literature and wishes to see an unbroken chain of distinctly mystical ideas leading from Qumran through rabbinic Judaism to the Hekhalot literature. The result also suggests that the category of...
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
2011
Laura E. Weed
Given the contentiousness of the hermeneutics debate among sinologists, I will begin my analysis of Daoist embodied mysticism with a brief discussion of methodology. As J. J. Clarke has pointed out, the traditional interpretation of Daoism for the West was established by scholars who stressed a false dichotomy between philosophical and religious Daoism.
History & Philosophy of Psychology
2011
Alison Torn
This article examines the boundaries between madness and mysticism by presenting a narrative analysis of a medieval first-hand account of madness. TheBook of Margery Kempedetails one woman’s spiritual visions and voices, and her struggle for a sense of belonging amongst different medieval communities. Part of its fame is that it is considered by some to be an early first-hand account of...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2011
Les Lancaster
13 citations
The greatest contemporary challenge in the arena of cognitive neuroscience concerns the relation between consciousness and the brain. Over recent years the focus of work in this area has switched from the analysis of diverse spatial regions of the brain to that of the timing of neural events. It appears that two conditions are necessary in order for neural events to become correlated with...