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Routledge eBooks October 9, 2023 John Blofeld
It is widely accepted that learning and the cultivation of mystical intuition do not go well together. Pietists who hold that scriptural study is the foundation of all goodness and scholars who maintain that learning is the road to wisdom, like those who expect salvation from good works, are generally not mystically inclined. Nevertheless, in China there have been Buddhist monks and laymen who...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2023 John Blofeld
In Buddhist circles in China and Tibet there are many stories current about a marvellous gem that, once located, fulfils its finder’s every wish. There is a religion beyond religions which leads directly to the grasping of the wish-fulfilling gem. For want of a better term, it may be called the mystic’s quest. For, whereas Christian and Moslem mystics have generally been looked upon askance by...
October 8, 2023 Hyeong Rae Jo
John Owen (1616–83), a prominent English Reformed theologian, emphasized the importance of affections in Christian life. Recent studies on the history of emotions have revealed a nuanced differentiation between “affections” and “passions” before the rise of secular psychology in the eighteenth century. Christian theologians, prior to the seventeenth century, distinguished affections and passion...
JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE STUDIES October 8, 2023 Atyaf Abdel-Rezzaq Hemad, Hamdi Hameed Al-Douri
This paper is mainly concerned with mystical experience in Emily Dickinson's later poems (composed between 1864 and 1886) to show the poet's spiritual growth and her attitude to the love of the Divine. It aims at analyzing and interpreting the poetry of Emily Dickinson from a mystical point of view. Most of Dickinson's poems trace themes like death, love and spiritual ecstasy. It proposes that...
Qeios October 7, 2023 Patrizio Tressoldi, Jeffrey Long preprint
The aim of this study is to replicate Long & Perry’s[1] God study using a more updated database and different inclusion criteria. The descriptions of God’s and Jesus’ characteristics as observed by 303 Near-death or Near-death-like experiencers were analyzed for their frequency both in the whole sample and divided by the participants’ religious experience. Both in the whole sample and in the...
Religions October 6, 2023 Erik Kuravsky
This essay relates a Heideggerian interpretation of metaphysics, as determined by an interpretation of Being in terms of a priori laws/essences, to a traditionally passive model of experience. The spiritual principles of the Christian and the Buddhist experience of the Nothing are shown as an overcoming of this model and an overcoming of metaphysics. The essay displays the ways in which...
Journal of Natural & Ayurvedic Medicine October 5, 2023 Kumar Bmn
In the Indian tradition, the Moksha (Salvation) is reckoned as a super goal of life and its genuine scripture is Bhagavad Gita, but where in Yoga is the super means of all that, connecting life i.e. as a spine of the India’s mysticism. In accordance with the tradition Bhagavad Gita is known as the specific treatise of Yoga-practices along with super ethics and as its originator Lord Krishna who...
Psychology and Mental Health Care October 4, 2023 A. David
In an academic context it is always difficult to speak of an aboriginal philosophy. However, this study addresses some aspects of the wichí worldview, where their philosophy rests on the portentous figure of the hayawu ‘shaman’ (or shamaness). In this sense, this being has an enigmatic force known as qopfwayaj, whose power gives him the ability to see, transform and dissolve the limits of...
Faith, Reason, and Theosis October 3, 2023 Ashley Purpura
Contrasting two types of otherness, this essay seeks to highlight an approach to theological knowledge and religious identity which does not rely on an intentional othering, such as if often the case in religious polemical or dogmatic controversies, but rather one often found in the mystical and spiritual tradition of the Orthodox Church, which emphasizes direct experience with God as...
Religions October 2, 2023 Rasoul Rahbari Ghazani, Saliha Uysal 2 citations
This paper examines the nature of “asceticism” (rīyāḍat) in Sufism, revolving around the works of the 13th century Persian Sufi Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī Balkī and exploring two critical inquiries: Firstly, it seeks to determine whether Rūmī’s mystical perspective on asceticism is world-rejecting or world-affirming. Secondly, it investigates potential parallels and divergences between...