December 21, 2018
Mohammad Reza Afroogh, Ali Reza Khajegi, A. Fahim
In the mystical worldview, the word “love” denotes a broad and multilayered concept. Most mystics from different nations regard love as one of the basic principles and lessons in the world of mysticism. Many of them have pledged underlying conditions in the path of conduct and achievement to the position of knowledge and certainty of majesty of God to the elixir of love. In the school of...
Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval
December 20, 2018
J. F. Fernández López
In this hermeneutical approach to Kabbalah and the Zohar, from the double perspective of the history of ideas and the reading of texts that emerged in a given time and context, this article investigates the historical and temporal components of cabalistic mysticism. The medieval Kabbalah, itself an experience of the numinous marked by the ahistorical, is not completely alien to historical...
ВЕСТНИК РУССКОЙ ХРИСТИАНСКОЙ ГУМАНИТАРНОЙ АКАДЕМИИ
December 19, 2018
Еремеева А. А.
Статья посвящена рассмотрению видов практик общения с умершими, которые применяются в современных российских мистико-эзотерических сообществах. Проведена классификация видов данных практик, а также рассмотрены примеры содержания и форм, в которых они подаются. Выделены такие методы общения с умершими, как: общение при помощи технических средств и общение при помощи различных магических приемов....
December 6, 2018
Todd Lawson
In Tafsir as Mystical Experience, Todd Lawson shows how the Quran may be engaged with for meaning and understanding, the usual goal of mystical exegesis, and also how it may be engaged with through tafsīr in a quest for spiritual or mystical experience. In this earliest of the Báb's extended works, written before his public claim to be the return of the hidden Imam, the act of reading is shown...
Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
December 1, 2018
S. Blakely
Iconographic analogies between the Mithraic torchbearers, Cautes and Cautopates, and the Greek Dioscuri encourage a comparative analysis of these figures in context. Previous studies have emphasized the potential for the divine twins to be the origins of the torchbearers: a closer examination of the Dioscuri as they functioned within another mystery cult, the rites of the Great Gods of...
December 1, 2018
Renato Kirchner, Jealison Machado Laroca
espanolEste articulo tiene por objeto exponer, analizar e interpretar, a partir del metodo fenomenologico, la obra Noche oscura, del mistico cristiano Juan de la Cruz (1542-1591). Se busca una profundizacion en el texto base, asi como de comentaristas especializados. El horizonte fenomenologico es demarcado por las anotaciones heideggerianas bajo el titulo "Los fundamentos filosoficos de la...
The British Journal of Psychiatry
November 26, 2018
Jianan Bao
The Varieties of Religious Experiences by William James: a 19th-century description of the psychosis spectrum by way of religious and mystical experiences – psychiatry in literature - Volume 213 Issue 6
Oxford Scholarship Online
November 22, 2018
A. Milbank
Radcliffe’s Anglican orthodoxy is established in Chapter 4, along with her attempt through her fiction to offer a theology of mediation and participation. She works with Shaftesbury’s Platonic moral realism in contrast to Mrs Barbauld’s associationist view of taste and develops a mode of mystical ascent through the interplay of vertical and horizontal experiences. The sublime allows ascent...
Oxford University Press eBooks
November 22, 2018
Eitan P. Fishbane
11 citations
This book studies the Zohar as a work of literature. While the Zohar has long been recognized as a signal achievement of mystical theology, myth, and exegesis, this monograph presents a poetics of zoharic narrative, a morphology of mystical storytelling. Topics examined include mysticism and literature; fiction and pseudepigraphy; diaspora and exile; dramatic monologue and the representation of...
Oxford Scholarship Online
November 22, 2018
Ayon Maharaj
This chapter explores how Sri Ramakrishna’s mystical testimony and teachings enrich contemporary analytic debates about the epistemic value of mystical experience. These debates center on a key question: are we warranted in taking mystical experiences—either our own or those of others—to be veridical? After briefly delineating Sri Ramakrishna’s views on the scope of theological reason, Maharaj...