At the End of Modern Security: William James on Religious Experience William James defends religious belief as a reasonable option against a kind of widespread agnosticism which he calls scientific absolutism, and against the dogmatism which he sees in the natural theology of his time. On the basis of his collection of essays “The Will to Believe”, the article reconstructs his arguments and the...
Background. The continuing apparitional events at Medjugorje in Bosnia offer an opportunity for sceptics to gain fresh insight into an alleged mystical-cum-paranormal phenomenon. Initially, the apparitional experiences occurred in a collective manner ruling out the possibilities of psychological and spiritual artefacts. Ostensibly, according to the percipients, an active apparition—that has...
This is the first analysis of all of Gurdjieff’s published internal exercises, together with those taught by his students, George and Helen Adie. It includes a fresh biographical study of Gurdjieff, with groundbreaking observations on his relationships with P. D. Ouspensky and A. R. Orage (especially why he wanted to collaborate with them, and why that broke down). It shows that Gurdjieff was,...
El presente artículo aborda la disposición poética y barroca presente en el rito de la ayahuasca, en el que el poeta argentino Néstor Perlongher participó. Desde su perspectiva existen diversas tensiones experimentadas en el ritual chamánico, las que se organizan en tres parejas contradictorias: fuerza y forma, apolíneo y dionisíaco, cuerpo y expresión. Estas tensiones llevan al sujeto y /o...
The article contains the result of the comparative analysis of henological and mystical texts. This paper considers «The One» category in its relationship with a mystical experience. The author raises the question of finding a strategy for more complete understanding of the meaning of «The One» category when working with mystical text. This work considers mystical text as a text that...
Women have made very significant contribution to the transmission of faith and one of thegreatest figure in the history of this transmission is St.Teresa of Jesus, the woman theologian of the sixteenth century Spain. Her theology is a mystagogy of prayer, to the highest mystical union with God. It is a theology based on her experience and narrated in the first person singular. Her theology is a...
De Medio AevoDecember 4, 2019Eirini Artemi, Christos Ath. Terezis8 citations
In early Christianity the term mystikos referred to three dimensions, which soon became intertwined, namely the biblical, the liturgical and the spiritual or contemplative. The biblical dimension refers to “hidden” or allegorical interpretations of Scriptures. The liturgical dimension refers to the liturgical mystery of the Eucharist, the presence of Christ at the Eucharist. The third dimension...
What does it mean to read and write devoutly, religiously, mystically—even, or especially, if one’s reading or writing qualifies for none of these adverbs in any conventional sense? What, in particular, does it mean to read and write about death and dying in these affective registers? These are the questions that animate this essay, a deeply personal dialogue with selected literary authors that...
In thisuncommon essay based on personal experience, Deborah Eliette Cukierman [Deborah Jannat] runs through her background and shares some stories of along-running philosophical journey grounded in a wide range of research areas. From an academic background in Performance Studies, Cultural Engineering and Philosophical Anthropology Le. Comparative Mysticism, to training in Hatha and Raja Yoga,...
The article discusses the problems of hermeticism. The European philosophical tradition, like the eastern one, is closely connected with mysticism, which is interpreted as cognitive activity, aimed at establishing an essential connection with the higher spiritual levels of being. The quantity and quality of the accumulated material testifies to the widespread, deep penetration and importance of...