Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University Philosophy and Conflict Studies
2023
Eugene V. Afonasin
The tendency to historicity is an important tendency in the modern history of philosophy. Hence a question: to which extend the treatises of Hermetic corpus seem to us historical, and properly connected with Egypt? Is it possible, taking into account the universal and mystical character of these texts, nevertheless to identify in them some elements, which would allow us to understand...
Atheistic Platonism
2023
Eric Charles Steinhart
Eleven detailed cases of atheistic mystical experience are examined. Five themes emerge from these cases: structural insight, wholeness, extremity, ego dissolution, and valuable connection. I will use atheistic Platonism to interpret these five themes. Structural insight and wholeness correspond to that singular relational power that binds all things together into the wholeness of nature. This...
Shagi / Steps
2023
E. N. Sobolnikova, D. Proud
This article examines the problem of mystical and religious foundations of morality, which are interconnected, first of all, with the inner world of a person - with duty, conscience, self-esteem. In what follows two theories of conscience are analyzed, compared and contrasted: those of the fourteenth-century mystic Richard Rolle and those of the philosopher Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel. The...
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
2023
Taehoon Kim
1 citation
Abstract (Lang: English):This essay aims to analyze comparatively similarities and differences found in Christian and Zen Buddhist forms of “mysticism.” Drawing on the works of Evelyn Underhill and D. T. Suzuki, it explores how the Christian prayers of Recollection, Quiet, and Contemplation can be paralleled by various aspects of Zen meditation, such as koan and zazen. The main comparative...
Jurnal Studi Sosial Keagamaan Syekh Nurjati
December 26, 2022
Fika Hidayani, Am'mar Abdullah Arfan
Information on dream interpretation is always interesting to study, especially when it is connected with mystical things. Due to limited abilities, not anyone can interpret dreams. Only people who are given a ‘gift’ can read about it. This research tries to interpret dreams that the sources from manuscripts entitled the Book of Tetamba. This book was written in Pegon script and Arabic and used...
International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science
December 15, 2022
Rosanna Rion
T.S Eliot read and quoted the great European mystics, among them Richard of Saint Victor and Saint John of the Cross and was influenced by the Biblical prophets. Their works coincide not only in religious believes, but there is a parallelism between Eliot`s linguistic devices and style and religious concepts like the disappearance of the Ego. The expression of the mystical experience through...
November 24, 2022
Robson Savoldi, Antônio Roazzi
preprint
Recent studies have assessed that the mystical alterations in sense of self are the best candidates for improvements in self-consciousness and the therapeutic potentials of ayahuasca’s rituals. Here, we examine the predictive relations of self-consciousness by mysticism and ego-dissolution self-reports. A cross-sectional study was drawn to investigate which self-consciousness traits – private...
Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi
November 1, 2022
Mohammed Rustom
2 citations
Despite the fact that some of the main followers of the famous Spanish Muslim mystic Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240)2 were well-versed in the discipline of philosophy, the school of Ibn ‘Arabī is often not regarded in Western scholarship as a philosophical school in the usual sense of the term. This is because Ibn ʿArabī’s followers tend to tackle the central problems of philosophy through the medium...
Üsküdar Üniversitesi Tasavvuf Araştırmaları Enstitüsü Dergisi
November 1, 2022
Makoto Sawai
In Islamic studies, Toshihiko Izutsu is well known as a scholar of the Qur’an and Sufism, thanks to his published works in English. As to his image in Japan, however, he is known as a thinker of Oriental philosophy. After his return from Iran to Japan, he published several publications on Oriental philosophy in Japanese. As such, his final achievement, which was his Oriental philosophy, was...
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences/Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
October 30, 2022
Samar Maatouq
This article attempts to explore how the Mythological and Ecocritical approaches can coalesce to offer an insight into the north Afro-Arab Sudanese village world represented in Tayeb Salih’s collection The Wedding of Zein and Other Stories. Considering that it is mostly understudied as compared to other literary works by Salih, previous critiques on The Wedding of Zein focused separately on...