Jaqfi Jurnal Aqidah dan Filsafat Islam
June 17, 2025
Dani Ramdani, Amsal Bakhtiar
This article aims to analyze the dimension of mysticism in Ibn Sina’s system of thought-an Islamic rationalist thinker who in several of his works shows deep spiritual-mystical tendencies. Using the approach of falsafi Sufism and a qualitative method based on literature study, this article examines major works such as Al-Isharat wa al-Tanbihat, Hayy Ibn Yaqzan, Risalah fi Mahiyyah al-Shalat and...
Teosofi
June 15, 2025
Kholid Al Walid, Waode Zainab Zilullah Toresano, Rosmaria Syafariyah Widjayanti et al.
This paper investigates the philosophical and mystical concept of ‘Ālam al-Mithāl (The Imaginal World) in Islamic thought as analternative framework for understanding religious experience. Despite the acknowledgement of its importance, contemporary discourse has yet to undertake a systematic philosophical inquiry into how ‘Ālam al-Mithāl, as a spiritual epistemology, provides rational grounds...
Preprints.org
June 13, 2025
Gopikrishna Deshpande, Joshita Majumdar, D. Rangaprakash
preprint
Mysticism has been an integral part of human society for ages. It involves both spirituality and religiosity. The former is associated with attaining higher states of consciousness without an essential belief in a supernatural power (or God), while the latter does. While there is plenty of speculative literature available on these topics, we instead focus on peer-reviewed scientific literature...
Social Sciences & Humanity Research Review
June 5, 2025
Muhammad Siddique Ahmed Khan, Asim Aqeel, Usama Javed et al.
This paper explores the intricacies of mystical precepts, the concept of spiritual ascendency, and the construction of meaning within the poetic works of two seminal figures of Sub-continental mysticism: Baba Ghulam Farid and Baba Guru Nanak. Drawing from post-structuralist theoretical frameworks, especially the works of Derrida and Foucault, the study interrogates the interplay of language,...
Journal of The Scientific Mysticism and Literature
June 4, 2025
Sh. Golkarian
This study examines the relationship between the mystical themes in Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi's Mathnawi Manavi, known as Rumi, and the architectural design of the Tabriz Grand Bazaar, a prominent example of traditional Iranian-Islamic architecture. Rumi's Mathnawi addresses many facets of human life from a mystical perspective, particularly exploring the symbolism and function of light. As a...
Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy
May 27, 2025
Wen Qiang Chen, Xiaoxing Zhang
1 citation
Mystical religious experiences typically purport to engage with the transcendent and often claim to involve encounters with spiritual entities or a detachment from the material world. Daoism diverges from this paradigm. This paper examines Daoist mystical experiences of bodily transformations and explores their epistemological implications. Specifically, we defend the justificatory power of...
Philosophical Psychology
May 24, 2025
André Van der Braak
3 citations
This article argues that Latour’s concepts of actor-networks and modes of existence make room for a different participatory approach to mystical experiences (MEs), as well as religious experience more broadly, that interprets them as participatory events rather than as the inner experiences of an isolated subject. This alternative Latourian approach to MEs neither assumes the a priori presence...
International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science
May 21, 2025
George Daniel Petrov
Philosophy has often sought to speak of God, attempting to express of the knowledge of His transitory being through reason only. One theologian and philosopher who has done this is Meister Eckhart, who, in his philosophy, sought to demonstrate the capacity of the pure intellect to raise itself to a form of knowledge of God in His being, a form that contradicts the limitations of the rationality...
Senarai: Journal of Islamic Heritage and Civilization
May 5, 2025
Erdogan Ibrahim
This article delves into the contrasting conceptions of divine revelation as articulated by two significant figures in Islamic thought, Ibn Sīnā and Al-Ghazālī, within the framework of metaphysical and epistemological processes. Ibn Sīnā views divine revelation as a metaphysical process situated at the apex of intellect. He posits it as an abstract reflection of divine knowledge conveyed to the...
Wacana : Jurnal Bahasa, Seni, dan Pengajaran
April 29, 2025
Maria Vincentia Eka Mulatsih
Some local stories in Kulon Progo Regency, Yogyakarta represented Javanese mysticism. Two of those local stories namely Ngrandhu and Sendang Mulya were selected to be analyzed in this article. Applying a literary anthropology approach to Niel Mulder’s mysticism, a proposed research question was: ”How is Javanese mysticism represented in Ngrandhu and Sendang Mulya local stories? This article...
Al-Wijdán: journal of Islamic education studies
April 28, 2025
Ali Rohmad, Zainuddin Fanani
The Abbasid era marked the peak of scientific development in Islamic civilization, characterized by the integration of theology, mysticism, and philosophy. This journal analyzes the close relationship between scientific rationality and religious spirituality, which gave rise to a new intellectual tradition that combined Greek thought with Islamic values. Philosophers such as Al-Kindi,...
Social Sciences and Education Research Review
April 21, 2025
Sanjeeva Guneratne, Upendra RMK Rajapaksha, Faiz MMT Marikar
preprint
This study presents a philosophical and theoretical overview of the process by which "geography and spiritual growth converge” in the construction of sacrality and experience of transcendence in the aniconic mountain sacredscapes of the world. Parallel concepts such as apophasis and archetypicality are explored in order to emphasise their points of convergence, it is supported by a literature...
Methexis
April 15, 2025
Sanjeeva Guneratne, Rmku Rajapaksha, Faiz MMT Marikar
This study presents a philosophical and theoretical overview of the process by which “geography and spiritual growth converge” in the construction of sacrality and experience of transcendence in the aniconic mountain sacredscapes of the world. Parallel concepts such as apophasis and archetypicality are explored in order to emphasise their points of convergence, It is supported by a literature...
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht eBooks
April 14, 2025
1. Why does a mystic need an artist?The role of visual representations in the mystical experience [] with regard to all these imaginary visions and apprehensions and to all other forms and species whatsoever, which present themselves beneath some particular kind of knowledge or image or form, whether they be false and come from the devil or are recognized as true and coming from God, the...
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2025
Travis Chilcott
Abstract:Jīva Gosvāmin (16th–17th c.), one of the most important of the early Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava theologians, argues for a unique theory of mystical pluralism that shares critical parallels with the highly influential constructivist thesis advanced by Steven Katz, albeit separated by more than four hundred years. These parallels suggest a shared insight into the cognitive dynamics underpinning...
Addiction Research & Theory
March 31, 2025
Julian Ungar-Sargon
This paper examines the theological and existential tensions embedded in “Step 2” of the Alcoholics Anonymous 12- Step program within a clinical framework, particularly exploring the neurobiological, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of recovery from trauma, addiction, and chronic pain. Drawing on a multidisciplinary approach that integrates evidence from addiction medicine, Jungian...
Cognitive Therapy and Research
March 29, 2025
Federico Seragnoli, Fabienne Picard, Gabriel Thorens et al.
4 citations
Abstract Purpose Despite the presence of mystical-type experiences in psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT), an understanding of the cognitive processes involved is still lacking. Guided by theory and empirical research, we hypothesized a cognitive-grounded perspective based on current metacognition models to promote the understanding of the psychological processes involved in mystical-type...
Religions
March 26, 2025
Liz MacWhirter
Post-Theoretical “creative–critical” research recently emerged in the discipline of Creative Writing as a collapse of the binaries between practice and Theory. This article shows that using this interdisciplinary methodology in the study of mysticism is a natural fit, illustrating its efficacy in a case study with the reflexive writing of the medieval Christian mystic Julian of Norwich. As a...
Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
March 12, 2025
Mirosław Kiwka
«Mística» y «experiencia mística» son términos tan ambiguos que exigen no solo la precisión, sino aun la construcción de toda una teoría que explicaría su significativa multidimensionalidad. El presente artículo ofrece ciertas indicaciones metodológicas para crear una teoría de la mística y, al mismo tiempo, centra su atención en los aspectos a tener en cuenta a la hora de hablar adecuadamente...
Journal of The Scientific Mysticism and Literature
March 10, 2025
Ali Babaei, Abdollah Hosaini Eskandiyani
In Islamic wisdom and mysticism, various ciphers and allegories have been used to explain the meanings and teachings of philosophical and mystical issues. As one of the strongest ciphers in the world of wisdom and mysticism, mirror has been used as a cipher for the recognition of noetic truths, from the foundation of Ibn Arabi's theoretical mysticism and the foundation of the originality of...