Mysticism research published in 2023 (page 3)

Practical Mysticism in Islam and Christianity: A Comparative Study of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Meister Eckhart

Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations July 3, 2023 Mark Sedgwick

new and successful attempt to answer an old question. The two best-known

DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2023.2276617 Full text

“Love will not be idle”: Non-Doing and Action in the English Mystical Tradition

Entangled Religions July 3, 2023 Louise Nelstrop 1 citation

This essay explores the dynamic of contemplative action, which I will refer to as ‘social mysticism’, or what from the perspective of comparative mysticism we might also want to term a form of ‘non-doing’. It focuses primarily on the medieval English mystical tradition, illustrating that two forms of action are discussion—ordinary actions and those which flow out of contemplation. It is noted...

DOI: 10.46586/er.14.2023.10391 Mysticism Contemplation Action physics Context archaeology +4

Can Cessation Be a Cognitive State? Philosophical Implications of the Apophatic Teachings of the Early Buddhist Nikāyas

Philosophy East and West July 1, 2023 Grzegorz L. Polak

Abstract:The Nikāyas contain several apophatic descriptions of a state of cessation that occurs during the life of an individual. Furthermore, some texts suggest that this cessation paradoxically coincides with liberating insight. This article attempts to draw out philosophical implications of these passages and to reconstruct the ideas serving as their basis. To make better sense of these...

DOI: 10.1353/pew.2023.a903371 Full text

Explaining the idea of Deliverance in the words of the ancient elders of Khorasan

مطالعات ادیان و عرفان تطبیقی July 1, 2023 Sajad Vaezi, Sayed Mohamad Rats Gofer, Mohammad Nasiri et al.

The quest for liberation is one of the queries that has been widely reflected in the sayings of Sufism and the elders of Khorasan. In this research, the issue of emancipation, which has been addressed in several verses of the Qur'an and on the other hand has been the concern of the people of knowledge and the wise master in different times and places, is studied in the important mystical school...

DOI: 10.22111/jrm.2021.6819 Full text Sufism Liberation Khorasan mysticism Khorasan elders

Theory of Mystic Experience in Islam: A critical appraisal of East and West

Journal of Religious and Social Studies June 30, 2023 Sadia Javed

Being a part of this spatiotemporal “phenomena” and wishing the knowledge of the “neuroma” or “Divine Reality,” which is above our commonly known capabilities and tools of acquiring knowledge through a particular way of meditation and absorbing mystical experience, is the main feature of mysticism. So questions arise: What is the nature of this experience? What are its essential...

DOI: 10.53583/jrss.05.04.2023 Mysticism Islam Critical appraisal Epistemology +2

Embracing the Unknowable: Paradigm of Ineffability

Religions June 27, 2023 Antti Piilola

Ineffability is a long-time partner of the philosophy of religion and mysticism. Through apophatic conceptions of the divine, it can act to guarantee the transcendence of the divine, elevate it to something beyond our conceptions. It has also held the central role in defining if not the nature, then at least the characteristics of mystical experience. Sometimes it is that which affirms the...

DOI: 10.3390/rel14060767 Full text Mystical experience Ineffability Philosophy of religion Philosophy of mysticism +1

Die Middeleeus-mistieke en Kaaps-piëtistiese Kontekstualisering van Dorothea Magdalena Goosen (c.1774–c.1840) se Uitdrukkings van Liefdesnumineuse in haar Outobiografiese Aantekeninge en Poësie

Studia historiae ecclesiasticae June 12, 2023 Andries Raath

Cape Pietism is a hybrid, transnational and transconfessional form of spirituality, emanating from the Pietistic movement in Germany, with its emphasis on medieval mysticism, piety and spiritual devotion to Christ, and Dutch Second Reformation influences. Feminine Pietists in South African frontier communities were the practitioners of this form of spirituality, analogous to similar trends in...

DOI: 10.25159/2412-4265/12580 Mysticism Numinous Spirituality Pietism +9

Blue Black Ecstasy: Ellen Gallagher’s Watery Ecstatic, Oceanic Feeling, and Mysticism in the Flesh

Journal of the American Academy of Religion June 1, 2023 Justine M. Bakker 9 citations

Abstract Since 2001, visual artist Ellen Gallagher has been working on “Watery Ecstatic,” an ongoing, expansive project that depicts real and imaginary underwater life through drawings, films, reliefs, and paintings. Thus far, this series—indeed, Gallagher’s oeuvre—has not been studied by scholars of religion. Arguing that the series provokes an extended conversation about mysticism,...

DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfad080 Full text Mysticism Ecstasy Subjectivity Immanence +8

The Origins of Mircea Eliade’s Transconscious and the Vicissitudes of the Religious Faculty

Numen May 31, 2023 Matei Iagher

Abstract This article examines the genealogy of the concept of “transconscious,” a key notion in the work of Mircea Eliade. It argues that the “transconscious” is the inheritor of a long psychological tradition in the study of religion, namely that of the religious faculty. The first section looks at the religious faculty in the work of Max Müller and some of his German post-Kantian precursors,...

DOI: 10.1163/15685276-20231699 Full text Mysticism History of religions German Religious studies +4

The making of a mushroom people: Toward a moral anthropology of psychedelics beyond hype and anti‐hype

Anthropology Today May 31, 2023 Nicolas Langlitz 13 citations

As regulatory agencies have put psychedelics on an expedited path to market approval, North Americans and Europeans might turn away from their repression and join the subset of cultures that have institutionalized the use of hallucinogenic drugs. What is the place of anthropology in this psychedelic renaissance? More specifically, how should anthropology relate to the cycles of hype and...

DOI: 10.1111/1467-8322.12813 Mysticism Ethnography Anthropology The renaissance +4

The Concept of Insan Kamil (Perfect Man) in Sufi Mysticism: A Comparative Study with the Last Man and Democratic Man in Nietzsche and Rawls' Political Thought

Scientific Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Science May 27, 2023 Shafiu Alidu

This research paper delves into the different conceptions of human nature and the role of individuals in society as presented by Nietzsche's Last Man, Rawls' Democratic Man and the Perfect Man in Sufism. The objective of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of the philosophical works of the two individuals, with a focus on their perspectives on the fundamental aspects of human...

DOI: 10.47310/sjahss.2023.v03i01.002 Full text

Mysticism beyond time

May 24, 2023 Zsuzsanna Szugyiczki

A modern misztikát a kortárs kutatások gyakran "zavarosnak" és "felszínesnek" nevezik. Ezek a negatív jelzők különösen akkor szembetűnőek, amikor a modern misztikát a misztika ‘klasszikus’ vagy ‘tradicionális’ változatával hasonlítják össze. Ezek alapján úgy tűnik, hogy a modern jelenségek nem felelnek meg azoknak a magas követelményeknek, amelyeket a tudósok a misztika tradicionális...

DOI: 10.14232/phd.11686 Full text

Lorca’s Immanent Mysticism

May 23, 2023

This book explores Federico García Lorca’s late poetry and drama within its context of mysticism. Lorca’s singular language reveals compelling evidence of innate spiritual potential, influenced by poets from Christian, Sufi, Buddhist, and other mystic traditions, from his earliest works to its culmination in the technical mastery of his last poems. Guided by musicality and polyvalence, close...

DOI: 10.3726/b18940

A Mysticism Approach to Yeats Byzantium

Communications in Humanities Research May 17, 2023 Kun-Yuan Li, Ruoyu Li, Manxi Liu et al.

William Butler Yeats is the most famous poet in the history of modern Irish literature. He is called the greatest poet of our time by T.S Eliot. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. He has a strong interest in mysticism and has made unremitting exploration of it throughout his life. Mysticism is an important source of Yeatss life creation. From the early collection of Irish...

DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/4/20220657 Full text

‘Joining into God's breath’: travail of the negative as a connection between mysticism and political activism

The Heythrop Journal May 16, 2023 Edda Wolff 2 citations

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 the dynamics of a continuous ‘unsaying’ and ‘subverting’ of traditional expressions of faith and religious practice, to explore the...

DOI: 10.1111/heyj.14215 Mysticism Hermeneutics Faith Negativity effect +7

Increases in aesthetic experience following ayahuasca use: An open-label, naturalistic study

May 15, 2023 Jacob S. Aday, Emily K. Bloesch, Alan K. Davis et al. 3 citations preprint

Psychedelic drugs are currently being investigated for their potential to facilitate a variety of long-lasting psychological changes. One area of psychological functioning that has yet to be systematically investigated in psychedelic research regards aesthetic experiences. This is surprising given the notable acute changes in perception induced by the drugs as well as the wealth of anecdotal...

DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/gd8h2 Full text Ayahuasca Mysticism Perception Psychotherapist +1

The Religiousness of Cultivation in the Zhuangzi: “The Unity of Self” of Zuowang 坐忘

Religions May 6, 2023 Shanshan Ma 4 citations

From the perspective of mysticism, the interpretation of zuowang 坐忘 as the breath-meditation technique with a transcendental goal establishes the religious basis of Zhuangzi’s cultivation. In contrast, most Chinese scholars argue instead that zuowang is primarily the mental state independent of meditative techniques, and that the techniques are devoid of philosophical significance. The pivot of...

DOI: 10.3390/rel14050612 Mysticism Meditation Buddhism Epistemology +10

“Gifts of Light”—Chiara Lubich’s Mystical Narrative with Hindus: An Analysis of a Hindu–Christian Dialogue Experience

Religions April 27, 2023 Roberto Catalano

The present paper offers a presentation and a phenomenological analysis of a rather unusual event in the sphere of interreligious dialogue: a Catholic woman, the protagonist of a mystical experience, shared some of the traits of this experience with people of another culture and religion. The protagonists of this experience include Chiara Lubich and a group of Hindus, some neo-Vedanta scholars...

DOI: 10.3390/rel14040521 Full text Mysticism Paradise Dialogue Unity +1

Mysticism and scholasticism

Religious Studies April 14, 2023 R. Cross

Abstract This article offers some reflections on Christina Van Dyke's Hidden Wisdom, using the opportunity to make some suggestions as to possible lines of influence between the world of scholastic theology and that of the female medieval mystics in what Van Dyke considers their ‘annihilationist’ mode: that the goal of the spiritual life is transformation into God in some sense.

DOI: 10.1017/s0034412523000392

Mystical and Ego-Dissolution Experiences in Ayahuasca and Jurema Holistic Rituals: An Exploratory Study

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion April 13, 2023 Robson Savoldi, Antônio Roazzi, Rita Clara de Oliveira Sales 6 citations

Mystical and even ego-dissolution experiences can be elicited from entheogens, like sacred potions of ayahuasca and jurema. Although composed of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and having met at a historical moment, ayahuasca and jurema have different rituals, symbolic references, and origins. This article aims to describe ayahuasca and jurema rituals, in psychometric measures of mysticism and...

DOI: 10.1080/10508619.2023.2185369 Ayahuasca Mysticism Subjectivity Psychic