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Routledge eBooks September 3, 2018 C.A. Tsakiridou
Spiritual landscapes form across local, transcultural, and diachronic trajectories left by holy persons, texts, images, sacred itineraries, rituals, and interior realities. A magisterial, tedious, and ornate narrative, the Mystical City of God collapses transcendent and immanent realities into a stream of instructions, visions and illuminations intended to reconstruct and explain the actual and...
September 3, 2018 Peter Fenwick 3 citations
Religious experience is very common in the population and there are many studies of mystical or religious experience. There is as yet no explanation of religious experience that satisfies both those who have had the experiences and those who seek a scientific basis for them. The problem for neuropsychiatry is that there appears to be no place in the brain for consciousness or mind. The chapter...
September 3, 2018 Michael Bernard Kelly
This chapter explores the two foundational “ways” of the Christian mystical life: the cataphatic and the apophatic. First, it discusses whether, in studying these “ways”, we are dealing with modes of discourse, types of theology, categories of mystical experience, or comprehensive ways of living one’s spiritual path. Second, each way is examined in turn, drawing on both ancient and contemporary...
Journal of Contemporary Religion September 2, 2018 Giuseppe Giordan, Leslie J. Francis, Giuseppe Crea 6 citations
The study presented in this article draws on theories and methods developed within the psychology of religion to examine, from a fresh perspective, a problem established within the sociology of religion: the ‘oddity of the Italian situation’. The study employs the notion of openness to mystical experience as an indicator of the level of spiritual awareness among a sample of 1,155 Italians...
International Journal of Persian Literature September 1, 2018 Urs Gösken
Abstract The description of the mystical union,1 whether in Islam or other religions, has often been construed as defying expression by means of language. The reason given is that language, by its very nature, is representational and conceptual, whereas mystical union by its very nature is a human status eluding both representation and conceptualization. On the other hand, given that mystical...
September 1, 2018 Virginia Langum 3 citations
The relationship of the physical, gendered body to mental health is a common theme in literary studies, which have sought to understand historical and contemporary narratives by female authors. Medieval mystics, in particular, have invited psychological and medical intrigue, both in their own period and much later. While both male and female mystics often write in highly embodied imagery,...
OAR@UM September 1, 2018 Shimul Sujit Sen, Gabriele Deidda 1 citation
Yoga is an ancient tradition arising from the evolving cultures of ancient India originating from a variety of sources like ancient texts, oral transmissions through lineages, iconography and songs. It has a complex history of spiritual exploration, philosophical reflection and creative expression. Yoga has evolved over time to suit the needs of the current populace and at present humanity at...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies September 1, 2018 B. Les Lancaster 1 citation
I explore psychological aspects of a mystically-awakened state as depicted in the Kabbalah. This awakened state is portrayed using imagery of light and is associated with wisdom. The path towards the state entails intense hermeneutic work, and the core characteristic of the awakened person is the ability to see into that which is concealed—be it in scriptural texts, fellow humans, or the outer...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies September 1, 2018 Harry T. Hunt
This is the second part of a consideration of the later Wilhelm Reich as anticipating a future planetary-wide “New Age” form of this-worldly spirituality in ways overlapping with figures from the same era of Western crisis from the 1930s through the 1950s, including Jung, Toynbee, Bergson, Heidegger, Teilhard de Chardin, and Simone Weil. Where the first part of this treatment of Reich as...
Integral Transpersonal Journal September 1, 2018 Steven Herrman
In this essay the author gives a concise overview of the use of the word transpersonal in the life and writings of the Israeli Jungian analyst, Erich Neumann, who was born in Berlin Germany in 1905 and lived from 1934 until his untimely death, in 1960, in Tel Aviv. The paper provides readers with an overview of the correspondence that took place between Neumann and Jung from 1934-1959 and...