PsyArXiv
October 10, 2023
Zhuo Job Chen
preprint
The studies of mysticism have traditionally emphasized a common core centered around experiences of ego dissolution and unity. However, this focus on a central set of experiences tends to downplay the non-central aspects, resulting in a limited understanding that may not encompass many other types of extraordinary experiences. This paper proposes a layered hierarchy model of mysticism, which...
Verbum Vitae
October 3, 2023
Marek Gilski
The article synthetically presents positive aspects of apophaticism. It discusses its apologetic role, its importance in defending against magical thinking, its focus on experience, its openness to pluralism, and its inspirational role for a variety of disciplines in delimiting their cognitive boundaries. Some of the most important conclusions are: a) apophaticism played an important role in...
Verbum Vitae
October 3, 2023
Ilaria Ramelli
1 citation
This article investigates mystic apophaticism in a set of Greek Patristic theologians, profoundly informed by philosophy, especially imperial Platonism: Clement, Origen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Pseudo-Dionysius. Both the terminology and the argumentative structure will be examined in each author and important connections among themselves and with ‘pagan’ Neoplatonists (including Plotinus,...
PARIPEX INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH
September 15, 2023
Anup Jyoti Bharali
Spirit possession can be considered as a complex phenomenon found to be still in practice in many societies around the world. Anthropologists have spent long years of time conducting ethnographic field studies on spirit possession and possession-trance in different societies around the world.Belief in spirit possession and possession-trance are ancient and very widespread as seen in the...
September 11, 2023
Peter J. Columbus
The authors contend that Alan Watts’ writings are less concerned with mystical experience per se than with the proper way to describe the experience. Moreover, they argue, the literary character of Watts’ approach to mysticism is outside the bounds or “fundamentally deviant” from what is usually considered mystical philosophy. Watts likewise is charged with reducing the spiritual to the...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
September 11, 2023
Dax Oliver
2 citations
Abstract I propose that positive mood should not be among the criteria for determining when or if psychedelic experiences are mystical. My primary reasons are: 1) unlike rare proposed mystical criteria such as feelings of self-dissolution and time-transcendence, positive mood does not clearly separate mystical experiences from other emotionally powerful experiences like being in love; 2) other...
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES
September 8, 2023
Ashti Anwar Muhammed, Asma Jasim Muhammad
This paper attempts to trace mysticism in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartetswith a special focus on the mystical elements in the poems with theirrelevant dimensions. It also aims at looking at different literaturesaround Eliot’s works which consider Eliot as an atheist poet whoseearlier writings contain secularist ideas but that only his Four Quartetsand ‘Ash Wednesday’ contain some differences to...
JMKSP
September 4, 2023
Lailan Syahfitri Siregar, Salminawati Salminawati, Yusnaili Budianti
This research investigates the activities of Islamic education within the context of women’s mysticism consultation at Babussalam Langkat using a qualitative approach with a phenomenological lens. Drawing on data from observations, interviews, documentation studies, and triangulation involving Tuan Guru, Mu’allimah Thariqat Naqsyabandiyah participants, and female salik in Babussalam Langkat,...
The Catholic historical review
September 1, 2023
Alison Shell
Reviewed by: Mysticism in Early Modern England by Liam Peter Temple Alison Shell Mysticism in Early Modern England. By Liam Peter Temple. [Studies in Modern British Religious History.] (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2019. Pp. ix, 236. £75.00/ $115.00. ISBN: 978-1-78327-393-5.) The early twentieth-century spiritual writer Evelyn Underhill spoke of mysticism as revealing "truths that are timeless." But...
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society
September 1, 2023
Edda Wolff
1 citation
Abstract This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e., a hermeneutics that takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is a suitable lens for the study of mysticism. It uses the concept of travail of the negative, which focuses on dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith and religious practice, to explore...
Spiritus
September 1, 2023
G. M. Young
Reviewed by: Modern Mystics: An Introduction by Bernard McGinn Glenn Young (bio) Modern Mystics: An Introduction. By Bernard McGinn. New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 2023. viii + 340 pp. $49.95. I admit to having felt some disappointment when Bernard McGinn announced that the seventh volume of his landmark study of Western Christian mysticism—The Presence of God—would bring the series to...
Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-Agama dan Lintas Budaya
August 29, 2023
Stephanus Djunatan
This study delves into the philosophical and epistemological interpretation of the Heart Sutra, emphasizing the conjunction between rational and mystical thought processes. The paper illustrates how the Sutra promotes an intertwined understanding of reality through textual analysis and comparative discussion involving Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives. The exploration reveals that...
August 22, 2023
Kathryn Maude
Tracing medieval English mysticism back into the early medieval period, this chapter reads Barking Abbey’s mystical experiences as a form of communal resistance. The early medieval nuns of Barking Abbey experience rich visions of their predecessors, in particular Saint Ethelburga, the first Abbess of Barking. In one of these visionary experiences, Abbess Elfgiva experiences being crushed under...
Religion Compass
August 17, 2023
Brad Stoddard
Abstract Scholars across the academic spectrum have written about the renewed interest in psychedelics that is commonly called the Psychedelic Renaissance (PR). Psychedelic religion is a major component of the PR, as psychedelic churches are growing exponentially and as people who consume and who research psychedelics routinely contend that these substances induce or occasion religious,...
Religions
August 8, 2023
Ismail Lala, Reham Alwazzan
7 citations
Abū ‘Alī ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1027) is regarded as the most influential philosopher in Islamic intellectual history. Of his numerous contributions, none has garnered more attention than his ontological proof for the existence of God, known as ‘the Demonstration of the Truthful’ (Burhān al-ṣiddiqīn). In this proof, Ibn Sīnā argues that only one being can be ‘necessarily existent’ (wājib al-wujūd)....
Proceedings of the Southwest State University. Series: Economics. Sociology. Management
August 3, 2023
В. В. Годован, П. Н. Николаев, M. Shugurov et al.
1 citation
Relevance. At the present stage of the development of religious studies, the importance of revealing the psychological "slice" of mysticism is increasing from the point of view of comparing two approaches – the reductionist, which reduces mysticism to intense and unusual psychological experiences, and the anti-reductionist, which sees in mysticism something more than just subjective...
Litera
August 1, 2023
Alena Yur'Evna Pisarenko
This scientific article is devoted to the study of the influence of mystical motifs and images of the Middle Ages on the work of the Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev. The central task of the study is to analyze the specific works of the poet, in which the influence of mystical themes is most clearly traced. The article draws attention to various aspects of the interaction of mysticism and...
Idil Journal of Art and Language
July 31, 2023
Ümit Kartal
Dini tecrübe özellikle on dokuzuncu yüzyıldan itibaren eleştirel düşünmenin tartışma odaklarından birini oluşturmuştur. Burada metodolojik bakımdan iki temel ayrımından söz edilebilir: dini tecrübenin dinin kurumsal yanıyla veya kişisel tecrübeyle kesiştiği ufukta incelenmesi. William James Dini Tecrübenin Muhtelif Boyutları yapıtında sözü edilen ikinci yöntemin ayırt edici düzeyde kurucu bir...
Analytica Revista de Filosofia
July 24, 2023
Rodrigo César Castro Lima
1 citation
Meu objetivo aqui é o de abordar os escritos iniciais de Wittgenstein com base na tradição do misticismo filosófico. O benefício de minha leitura se deve ao fato de permitir uma certa clarificação no que tange a determinadas passagens obscuras, além de trazer à tona perspectivas inexploradas concernentes ao período inicial do autor; fase esta que, em minha opinião, ainda requer um nível de...
Philosophies
July 21, 2023
Márk Losoncz
1 citation
This article not only mentions spiritual anarchism nominally, as do so many previous articles, but tries to define it as precisely as possible. The definition assumes that the self itself can be a source of unjustifiable authority and a limitation to freedom, and that spiritual anarchism is nothing more than being open to that which transegoically transcends our narrow perspective. The article...