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Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
The emphasis in ego-psychology on a mystical experience (ME) is for the ego consciousness to enter into a relationship with a new element that has been introduced into the psyche by the experience. For Jung, a ME is subsumed in a larger category of what he calls "numinous experience." The teleology of a numinous experience is that it introduces to the conscious mind the existence of a non-ego...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
An experience will be made legitimate when it is accepted by the patient and the analyst as a truly mysterious phenomenon that has occurred. The importance of Jung&s;s formulation to ascribe legitimacy to a numinous experience is to be understood in the relationship of that experience to ego consciousness. There is philosophical debate as to whether a mystical experience is a pure subjective...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
Receptivity to a mystical experience (ME) is not characterised for any person by a wide-open highway where there are no obstacles. The nature of a ME and Jung&s;s numinous experience in terms of its psychoanalytic significance is that it essentially creates something new that has a particular form. The potential for rejection is contained within the overwhelming experience; a ME always has an...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
The father archetype that underlies a father complex is the primum movens of religious feeling: it is the "creative wind-breath – the spirit, pneuma, atman" and thus contains the seeds of all mystical experiences (ME). Although the father archetype is an underlying ground for a ME, it cleaves towards the authority of established religion so that the nascent religious feelings it engenders are...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Leslie Stein
Both Sri Aurobindo and C. G. Jung express a process for the fulfilment of a life that requires the development of consciousness and thus offers a reason for giving importance to a mystical experience. Sri Aurobindo Ghose is rare in the array of Eastern mystical figures because he was also an intellectual and a political revolutionary. Reducing Sri Aurobindo and C. G. Jung to a causal connection...
Routledge eBooks October 9, 2018 Achille Varzi 3 citations
The event located in the iconic memory is in front of the observer, and its life has the same duration as the possibility to observe it: it is an event under observation. In the world of events under observation, the icons – the examples of iconic memory – occupy a definite place in the visible space; different examples may occupy different places at the same time. As for the idea that...
Ambix October 5, 2018 D. Kahn
Focused on “the visual and symbolic in Western esotericism,” as the subtitle puts it, this impressive book takes its title from the famous passage in John 1:5 (“and the light shineth in darkness”),...
Routledge eBooks October 4, 2018 Eugene V. Subbotsky
This chapter argues that consciousness is the ability to simultaneously live in two types of reality: perceived everyday reality and invisible magical reality. At some point around 100,000 years ago, humans became aware of the inevitability of personal death and developed the idea of an afterlife – the reality in which the spirits of dead ancestors dwell. They also discovered that the spirits...
Anuario Filosófico October 4, 2018 João Maria André 2 citations
The article begins by placing Nicholas of Cusa's ideas in the context of Mysticism, whilst, at the same time, establishing the continuing actuality of the topic. After a short review of the concept of art as an imitation of nature through Antiquity and the Middle Ages, the second part of the essay deals with the originality of the Germán Cardinal's development of the concept of "imitatio" and...
Psychopharmacology October 4, 2018 Baland Jalal 42 citations
Sleep paralysis is a state of involuntary immobility occurring at sleep onset or offset, often accompanied by uncanny “ghost-like” hallucinations and extreme fear reactions. I provide here a neuropharmacological account for these hallucinatory experiences by evoking the role of the serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2AR). Research has shown that 5-HT2AR activation can induce visual hallucinations,...