Voprosy Filosofii
March 10, 2025
Natalia S. Zhirtueva
The article provides a comparative analysis of ideas about space and time, formed in the philosophical and mystical teachings of the world, with those that are characteristic of modern science. The non-classical scientific paradigm has created a new understanding of the spatio-temporal organization of being, which is characterized by multidimensionality and relativity. There are unique features...
European International Journal of Philological Sciences
March 1, 2025
N. Shoaliyeva
This article explores the mystical (irfaniy) perspectives of the 15th-century renowned Muslim poet and thinker, Mir Alisher Navoi, as reflected in his divan Foniy. Sufism and its teachings have long played a significant role in shaping Islamic thought, influencing human perception, self-awareness, and moral refinement. Alisher Navoi, as a distinguished poet of his time, deeply engaged with Sufi...
St. Tikhons' University Review
February 28, 2025
D. Cherepanov
This article suggests a new point of view on Archpriest Sergei Bulgakov’s sophiology. The concept of Sophia has often been described as an artificial element in Bulgakov’s views, its emergence has been explained by different “influences”, e.g. of Vladimir Solovyov, Gnosticism, rationalist philosophy etc. This article, on the contrary, argues that the concept of Sophia was Bulgakov’s solution to...
The Creative Launcher
February 28, 2025
Ramaswami Subramony
This research article explores the rich poetic legacy of Andal, a revered figure in Tamil Śaivite and Vaiṣṇavite Bhakti traditions. Andal, known for her profound spiritual compositions such as Tiruppavai and Nācciyār Tirumoḻi, occupies a central position in early Tamil Bhakti literature. Her poetry resonates with themes of intense devotion and mystical union with the divine, encapsulating the...
Poornaprajna International Journal of Management Education & Social Science
February 28, 2025
P. S. Aithal, Ramanathan Srinivasan
Purpose: Advaita Vedanta and Kashmir Shaivism represent two profound non-dualistic philosophies that challenge conventional perceptions of separation and multiplicity. This study examines their distinct interpretations of reality, exploring how each tradition articulates the unity of existence through differing metaphysical frameworks. Advaita Vedanta posits an absolute, formless Brahman as the...
Religions
February 25, 2025
Denae Dyck
This article reconsiders literature’s capacity to express and evoke spiritual experiences by turning to William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience, especially his discussion of mysticism and his suggestion that poetry can bring about such states. James’s ideas are especially promising given recent developments in postsecular and postcritical scholarship that problematize a...
Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion
February 14, 2025
Julia Meyer
Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the religious mysticism in literature: Shaping the integration of philosophical thought in Germany. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a...
Quality Journal Of Education Arabic And Islamic Studies
February 10, 2025
Ice Desvikayati, Yeni Karneli, Sufyarma Mursidi
Guidance and counseling continues to develop and must be able to adapt to current developments. This research examines the integration of metaphysics and mystical knowledge in the context of guidance and counseling. This approach aims to explore the potential benefits, challenges, and practical implications of adopting metaphysical and mystical elements in counseling practice. The research...
The Reception of Philo of Alexandria
February 4, 2025
Elke Morlok, Ze’ev Strauss
Abstract Using both primary and secondary sources, this analysis advances the claim that Philo exerted a concrete influence on medieval Jewish thought and mysticism. The first section focuses on scholarly evaluations made during the twentieth century of Philo’s impact on Jewish intellectual traditions of the Middle Ages. By exploring previous scientific assessments, we discuss viable ways of...
At-Thullab : Jurnal Mahasiswa Studi Islam
January 31, 2025
Angga Arifka
This article investigates Sufism and its closeness with the so-called mysticism. Indeed, mysticism is chiefly characterized by mystical experience, referring to, broadly speaking, that of union with the ultimate reality. On this basis, Sufism also evinces mystical experience from which the Sufis elaborate some terminological concepts such as fanā’, wahdat al-wujūd, ittihād, etc. As a...
Sillages Critiques
January 30, 2025
Norman Finkelstein
What leads poets into mystical, hermetic and occult studies? How do these traditions shape their poetic practice, and conversely, how do their poems deepen our understanding of the enduring power of these bodies of thought, belief, and ritual? In response to these questions, this paper focuses on Robert Duncan’s study of Kabbalah, especially Kabbalistic language mysticism, which he reads as...
Religions
January 22, 2025
John C. Thibdeau
In this article, I will touch on the ethical and moral possibilities of mysticism. On the one hand, I discuss the kinds of ethical work required to open and cultivate experiences of the divine. On the other hand, I look at how those experiences of the divine create new opportunities for kinds of ethical relationships to oneself, to others, and to the divine. In doing so, I connect the practices...
January 13, 2025
Anna Sierka
Building on Derrida's essay Plato's Pharmacy, the current article examines sacred versus profane illuminations within the spiritual realm of Judaism.As exemplified by the marking nut (baldhur), I survey exoteric-curative and esoteric-altered states of consciousness inducing deployments of this medicinal plant fruit.Retracing the veiled pharmacopoeias that blur the lines between medicine and...
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی
January 8, 2025
Bakhshali Ghanbari
Philosophy of mysticism is a branch of philosophy and one of the topics of interest to studies of mysticism. In this field are proposed three theories of constructivism, philosophia perennis, and non-intentionality. People are counted like Stacey, James from the first theory processors, and Katz is one of the proposers of the second theory and Foreman of third theory designers. In reviewing the...
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی
January 8, 2025
Hadi Vakili
The book Mysticism, East and West by Rudolf Otto, is one of the most important examples of comparative studies of mysticism in the world. The discussion of the East and the West and how they relate to each other is at least for Otto one of the pillars of the philosophy of religion that has been reflected in this book. Otto sees mysticism as the kinship of the east and west. The term “Nominus/...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
January 2, 2025
Petri Kajonius, David Sjöström, Emma Claesdotter-Knutsson
5 citations
In the midst of growing research and societal discourse on psychedelic substances, a consistent finding is reported: A majority of users report profound personal meaning from their experiences. This pioneering study in Sweden, a nation renowned for its strict drug policies, sought to quantify the extent of reported meaningfulness among Swedish psychedelic users. Results revealed that a majority...
International Journal of Education and Social Science Research
2025
S. Tabassum
This paper explores how embodied experience mediates spiritual realization within two distinct mystical traditions: Buddhist meditation and the Baul tradition of Bengal. Drawing on phenomenological theory—particularly the foundational contributions of Edmund Husserl (1983/1913) and Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962)—the study stresses the bodily dimension of spirituality. In Buddhism, the body...
Islamic Knowledge and Insight
2025
Hadi Izadi Asli, Behrouz Afshar, Mohammad Ali Yousefi
Mysticism is an inner spiritual phenomenon with a metaphysical essence and a transrational dimension, rooted in the pursuit of pure monotheism, culminating in annihilation in God (fanāʾ fi-llāh) and subsistence through God (baqāʾ bi-llāh). Through spiritual wayfaring toward God (sulūk ilā llāh), the human being becomes the manifestation of the divine names of majesty and beauty, a clear...
2025
Peter Schäfer
Peter Schäfer provides the reader for the first time with a history of pre-kabbalistic Jewish mysticism. He offers a close reading of the key texts and asks what they wish to convey about the age-old human desire to get close to and communicate with God. The book is directed at specialists as well as at a broader audience.
Comparative philosophy of religion
2025
Thorsten Botz-Bornstein
1 citation
AbstractMysticism is mostly employed in the context of theistic religions because historically, mysticism aims at a unification with God. It must be clarified if the project of comparative mysticism that this book suggests can be properly carried out when including non-theistic religions. The chapter examines phenomena such as quietism, ekstasis, and contemplation. Further, the relationship...