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Revista Eclesiástica Brasileira August 10, 2018 Faustino Luiz Couto Teixeira
Síntese: No panorama ocidental da mística cristã, Teresa de Ávila (1515-1582) emerge como um dos mais vivos e ricos exemplos de itinerário espiritual. É com ela e João da Cruz que a mística nupcial ganha sua culminância, com uma riqueza simbólica e doutrinal extremamente fértil. Foi também alguém que consagrou a análise psicológica da experiência mística, fornecendo um rico manancial para a...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs August 8, 2018 Logan Neitzke-Spruill, Carol Glasser 27 citations
Psychedelic drugs, or entheogens, have been used for religious purposes among various cultures for thousands of years. Recently, these substances have caught the attention of Westerners for many reasons, including their propensity to induce mystical experiences. This study examined the relationship between religion and having mystical experiences. A total of 119 participants were drawn from...
August 6, 2018 Manvir Singh 16 citations
In nearly every documented society, people believe that some misfortunes are attributable to malicious group mates employing magic or supernatural powers. Here I report cross-cultural patterns in these beliefs and propose a theory to explain them. Using the newly-created Survey of Mystical Harm, I show that several conceptions of evil, mystical practitioners recur around the world, including...
Kontemplasi Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Ushuluddin August 1, 2018 Fatimatuz Zahro
Islam offers an achievement of the perfection of the soul through the path of mysticism (Sufism). This tradition is known as Sufism. Unfortunately that mystical experience is not much experienced by women. Women are placed in the second class, not only in matters of formal law (sharia), but also in terms of spirituality. Such lameness situation is the effect of patriarchism. Based on this...
Open Theology August 1, 2018 P. Hedges
Abstract “Ultimacy,” it is argued, is not an area that academic studies in theology nor the study of religion can properly investigate; nevertheless, it is also illegitimate to argue therefore that claims to it are simply linguistic power plays. Using an autobiographical methodology, the author explores how their own “imagined” “mystical” experience and scholarly studies may shed light on...
Spirituality in Clinical Practice July 30, 2018 Enrico Facco, Daniela Lucangeli, Patrizio Emmanuele Tressoldi 10 citations
In this article, we report some excerpts from the writings of Dr. A.M., an adult female, regarding the knowledge she acquired during the regular mystical experi- ences she has been having since April 2014. This case is exceptional for multiple reasons. First, she experienced this particular state of consciousness without any associated medical or neurological illnesses. Second, these...
British Academy eBooks July 26, 2018 Christina van Dyke 19 citations
This chapter focuses on the corrective and complementary roles that a historically oriented approach can occupy in philosophical discussions. First, it argues that analysis of the development of key definitions, concepts, principles and so forth can often illuminate problematic prejudices that should motivate a re-examination of the philosophical considerations in their favour. Second, it...
Sociological Forum July 20, 2018 Julie Fennell 22 citations
Previous research onBDSM(bondage & discipline, dominance & submission, sadism & masochism) subcultures has largely ignored the spiritual aspects ofBDSMfor participants. Drawing primarily from my years of experience and participant observation as an insider in theDC/BaltimoreBDSMpansexual community and 70 interviews conducted with self‐identified kinksters throughout the Mid‐Atlantic United...
Revista Trace July 16, 2018 Vincent Basset 1 citation
Propongo analizar el neochamanismo como un nuevo paradigma para los no indígenas, en el que la práctica chamánica es el resultado de intercambios materiales e inmateriales entre un chamanismo local y un chamanismo global. A través de un estudio comparativo entre la reserva natural sagrada de Wirikuta, en el Estado de San Luis Potosí, México, y la región de Bugarach, en Francia, estudiaré cómo...
Journal of the Society for American Music July 10, 2018 John Kapusta 4 citations
Abstract In the late 1960s, the prominent psychologist Abraham Maslow argued that music-making was an inherently bodily activity, which like sex, could induce what Maslow called “peak experiences”—moments of mystical transcendence and personal insight. Amass enough such peak experiences, Maslow suggested, and one could achieve “self-actualization”—the full realization of one's potential as a...