Kultury Wschodniosłowiańskie - Oblicza i Dialog
September 22, 2018
Jana Nowakowska
In this article we defined the aim of bringing closer Daniil Andreyev's personality which refers to the statements of the writer's self-identification. In conclusion, Andreyev is a mystical writer who thought about himself as a messenger, visionary, dualist, poet-magician and words seeker. Moreover, Andreyev considered himself as a creator who does not invent things, but only in the language of...
Oxford Scholarship Online
September 20, 2018
Jens Schlieter
This chapter presents how discourse on experiences near death unfolded from 1580 to 1900 in the three religious metacultures (and occasionally in Naturalist metaculture). It takes its departure with Michel de Montaigne’s experience near death. It is argued that this testimony is supposedly the first report in a modern, autobiographical setting. It moves on to early modern Christian accounts,...
Labyrinth
September 20, 2018
Eleni Lorandou
In the second part of the Triptych, Mystique non-philosophique à l'usage des contemporains, François Laruelle puts to the test of "non-philosophy" the field of phenomena that are termed as "religious" whether Christian, Judaic or Gnostic. Non-philosophical mystique is born in the spirit of heresy rather than sanctity. It springs from the effort to join Man with himself rather than with God...
Oxford Scholarship Online
September 20, 2018
Jens Schlieter
The final chapter of the discursive history outlines how Robert Crookall’s and Robert A. Monroe’s books on “astral projection,” but also C. G. Jung and other researchers discussing paranormal and parapsychological phenomena in the 1960s and early 1970s, already assembled almost all phenomena that Moody could bundle in 1975 under the new term “near-death experiences.” However, the chapter points...
Research & Investigations in Sports Medicine
September 18, 2018
Maria I Dalamagka
The possibilities of self-suction can be particularly useful in the management of pain. It is possible to modify the experience of pain. The only obstacle is the limits of imagination, but as you surely know the imagination knows little boundaries. Sometimes deep relaxation can help, before giving to yourself the suggestions you need. Other times just let yourself travel and become one with...
Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne
September 14, 2018
Monika Maas Enriquez
Both the newly published writings of Edmund Husserl as well as the still unpublished manuscripts force us to reinterpret his thoughts, as in their light we find numerous anthropological and – what is more - mystical implications in the reflection of the philosopher. Phenomenology can, in fact, be read as a process of autoconstitution of the entity in its adequate being, i.e. its laborious...
Annals of Behavioral Neuroscience
September 7, 2018
Lawrence Wile
Neurotheology is the study of the neurobiological correlates of religious experiences. A key problem for this nascent field is that interpretations of religious experiences range from a regression to the oceanic oneness of the womb to supersensory apprehensions of transcendent realities. Identifying appropriate subjects is therefore problematic. Correlating the complex array of neurobiological...
STEINIANA: Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios
September 4, 2018
María Teresa Russo
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The biographical itinerary and the speculative development of Edith Stein offer a precious material to reflect on the relationships between philosophy and mysticism, considered as two ways to approach the truth, without yielding to the temptation to immanentize the divine by reducing it to the individual conscience or There is therefore in common between the two saints the interest towards the...
September 4, 2018
Marc Wittmann
What altered states of consciousness—the dissolution of feelings of time and self—can tell us about the mystery of consciousness. During extraordinary moments of consciousness—shock, meditative states and sudden mystical revelations, out-of-body experiences, or drug intoxication—our senses of time and self are altered; we may even feel time and self dissolving. These experiences have long been...
Peyote Effect
September 4, 2018
Alexander S. Dawson
This chapter turns to the white shamans. This is not a term of endearment, as it is often linked to notions of charlatanism, foolishness, and more lately, cultural appropriation. Beginning with Carlos Castaneda, several generations of white shamans have deployed images tied to Wixárika peyotism in order to authorize their special wisdom. Resisting the temptation to dismiss them in a wholesale...