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Routledge eBooks October 24, 2018 David A. Steere
Spiritual experience commands the quality of attention. Spirituality has been called the psychological or experiential counterpart to dogma. Definitions can be broad or narrow in scope as found among the papers in the 1967 Durham Conference on Spirituality. For the spiritually homeless, the broader definitions are more relevant. Spiritual experience begins at the point where theological or...
Sensus Historiae October 24, 2018 Ewa Piotrowska
Birgitta of Sweden is regarded as an important personality in late Scandinavian Middle Ages. Her work Revelations was an undeniable contribution to Swedish and European literature of her time. The article discusses the character of Birgitta’s mystical experience, as well as its influence on her actions and conduct. Scandinavian specificity of the great Swede’s doings has also been emphasized in...
Routledge eBooks October 24, 2018 Mary Pat Henehan
This chapter presents a case study of Etty Hillesum, Kathe Kollwitz, Caroline Stephen, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila and Ita Ford. All six of these women used their talents of self-expression to build up community and to create hope in times of darkness, giving witness to the power of the integration of the human and the divine. Kathe Kollwitz shone through her expression of art. She used...
Zeszyty Naukowe Centrum Badań im Edyty Stein October 22, 2018 Małgorzata Grzywacz
The subject of the article is the religious experience in the period of childhood.Beginning with the presence of children in the Bible, there follows an overview of different situations, opinions and concepts that explicate religious attitudes of children:for example towards death or serious illness. The author brings closer the cases of childrenwho had mystical experiences, like Ellen Organ...
Zeszyty Naukowe Centrum Badań im Edyty Stein October 22, 2018 Anna Palusińska
Gregory Palamas creates philosophical and theological synthesis, which originates from his own mystical experience of hesychasm. Palamas claims that man can participate in non created, eternal energeiai of God, which are the external activities ofGod’s uosia – essence. Palamas says that all things participate in God, and they are constituted by this participation, they do not, however,...
Routledge eBooks October 21, 2018 Ronald S. Britton
The temptation at either end of this axis is to turn one’s back on the other. This has been so at times in psychiatry, where so-called organic psychiatry is at one end and dynamic psychiatry at the other, and the temptation is for each to turn its back on the other. Sensualism is the common term of abuse for the one philosophy, mysticism for the other. The one doctrine is accused of making men...
October 19, 2018 Kurt Leland
IN 1950, Cyril Scott wrote a cranky letter to Musical Opinion in which he defended himself against a critic who (in Scott's words) ‘put forward my interest in the occult as a reason for my shortcomings as a composer’. Scott complained that: The assumption that while composing I have, so to say, one ear cocked on the occult, does not and cannot make sense. It is just one of those fables which...
Filozofia Chrześcijańska October 16, 2018 Maciej Manikowski 1 citation
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagita is one of the most interesting theologians and philosophers of the Middle Ages. He was, probably, a Christian neoplatonist, a Syrian monk, who lived and worked in a circle of the latest neoplatonist school, e.g. Proclus and/or Damascius. He was called the Father of Christian apophatic mystics. His concept of mystical experience shows two fundamental aspects....
Asian Medicine October 16, 2018 Joseph S. Alter 1 citation
The history of modern yoga is rooted in the history of alchemy and the practice of magic in medieval India. In physiological terms it is also intimately linked to tantric ideas concerning the immobilisation of semen. However, modern yoga as a form of practice which emphasises physical fitness, wellness and holistic health, emerged more directly out of the early twentieth-century yoga...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
Longing, in its widest sense, impels the receptivity; it is not a characteristic of either a strong or a weak ego. The longing is insufficient, in itself, to account for receptivity, but it is its basis, contained within a coherent ego that is able to absorb a mystical experience (ME). The search for any development factors that may create a proclivity for receptivity to a ME must be general...