In the first article of the two interconnected articles, titled "Out-of-time experiences in four iconic 20th-century European modernist novels including Zeno's Conscience" (Tóth-Izsó, 2023b) the examination of Kairos experiences transpired through the lens of a psychosynthetic framework. In this second article the most important transpersonal experiences of the characters of Brothers Karamazov,...
In the South Asian discourse of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, ‘natural’ functions can be transcended and bodily boundaries are permeable. Defying species boundaries, this relational ontology entails a belief in the capacity for bodily transformation, or metamorphosis, from one category of being to another (as from human to nonhuman animal). In turn, both human and animal actors enter into...
ABSTRACT Audrey Punnett interviews Sheila O’Handley about the mystical experience she had at the age of fifteen that began her journey into the religious life, first as a Sister of St. Martha, and later as a professed hermit in the Roman Catholic Church in first Newfoundland and then Nova Scotia, Canada. An introduction to Jung’s work confirmed her mystical experience and led her into analysis...
abstract:Many studies of mystical marriage depend upon the assertion that writers and readers agreed upon its desirability and usefulness as a devotional paradigm for medieval women. This article challenges the assumption that mystical marriage held an unambiguously positive meaning for medieval audiences by offering a comparison of two Middle English accounts of St. Katherine of Alexandria's...
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire...
The article analyzes the genesis and transformation of the concept of «religious experience» in the philosophical and theological heritage of V. S. Solovyov. It is proposed to reconstruct the content and meaning of the concept of «religious experience», initially perceived by V. S. Solovyov, later reworked by him in the context of the general logic of the history of Russian religious studies....
ABSTRACT:Mullā Ṣadrā's central issue of ʿilm al-nafs – to which he devoted one and half volumes of his nine volume Asfār – is the principle of bodily advent of the human soul and its spiritual survival through its lifetime undergoing substantial movement until the soul achieve the stage of immateriality. The evolution of the soul toward immateriality can be perfectional development toward...
Symbolism and Surrealism, as two artistic and literary movements, aim to discover hidden and spiritual realities through the deep layers of the human mind and imagination. Symbolism, which emerged as a reaction against Naturalism and Positivism, believes in a reality beyond the perceptible world that is depicted through symbols, dreams, and imagination. Meanwhile, Surrealism, deeply influenced...
Among the central discussions in the evolution of language and thought within Islamic mysticism is the perceptual and ontological perspective of Islamic mystics, which has received extensive attention in the works of mystics and Sufis. From the perspective of the Sufis, wahdat al-shuhud (the unity of perception) signifies the perception and affirmation of divine unity. According to this...
Introduction. The article examines the problem of consciousness interpretation in the philosophy of S. L. Frank in the context of the late XIX - early XX centuries philosophical tendency to deontologize consciousness. The philosopher studies the ideas of different thinkers in a timeless context, seeing their originality and uniqueness when comprehending the idea of unity. Content. Despite the...