Cornell University Press eBooks
July 6, 2018
Emily S. Apter
The nineteenth-century medicalization of religious excess was given its greatest impetus by Jean-Martin Charcot and Paul Richer in their iconographic and clinical studies of hysteria.In Charcot's /conographie photographique de la Salpetriere (1876), Les Demoniaques dans l'art ( i 886), and La Foi qui guerit ( 1897) and in Richer's Etudes cliniques sur la grande hysterie (1881/85), they examined...
July 6, 2018
Henry Jackman
3 citations
William James was one of the most controversial philosophers of the early part of the twentieth century, and his apparent skepticism about logic and any robust conception of truth was often simply attributed to his endorsing mysticism and irrationality out of an overwhelming desire to make room for religion in his world-view. James&s;s naturalistic understanding of concepts is most explicit in...
July 6, 2018
C. Dyke
2 citations
Discussions of immortality in the Middles Ages tend to focus on the nature of the rational soul and its prospects for surviving the death of the body. The question of how medieval figures expected to experience everlasting life – what I will be calling the phenomenology of immortality – receives far less attention. Yet expectations for immortal existence speak volumes about a whole nest of...
International Review of Psychiatry
July 4, 2018
Peter S. Hendricks
181 citations
A psychological model of classic psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy informed by contemporary scientific data is presented in this paper. It is suggested that classic psychedelic-occasioned mystical experience is characterized by profound awe, a discrete emotion experienced in the presence of a vast stimulus requiring accommodation of mental structures. Awe, in turn, promotes the small self, a...
International Journal of Dream Research
July 2, 2018
Kurt Forrer
The bulk of the scientific fraternity still regards the world as ‘a thing as such’, a ‘reality’, in other words, that is independent of an active mind. Its proponents build their theories on facts they regard as something certain, steadfast and unalterable. The etymology of ‘fact’ reveals that its meaning has its roots in the Latin word ‘facere’, ‘to do’. Its present day meaning was established...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
July 1, 2018
Mahdi Mohabbati, Ghorban Valiee, Amir Momeni Hezaveh et al.
The largest volume of mystical narratives in Persian literature is devoted to Mathnavi. This has caused neglecting the potentials of other forms of narrative and the tendency of mystics to tell stories in those forms. This necessitates new studies that can examine the potentials of other poetic narrative forms and their features. One of the important functions of storytelling in Sufism is...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
July 1, 2018
Nasim Karamat, Hossein Faghihi
“The imaginary” and “imagination” are the essences of art and literature. However, all through history, a long-held dispute has always revolved around what they actually stand for. From illusion to dream and inspiration and divinities; from the ancient Greece to the era of Islamic philosophy and mysticism, all are linked to such concepts as imagination and the imaginary. Although these two...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
July 1, 2018
Clément E Lemercier, Devin B. Terhune
Recent research on psychedelics and hypnosis demonstrates the value of both methods in the treatment of a range of psychopathologies with overlapping applications and neurophenomenological features. The potential of harnessing the power of suggestion to influence the phenomenological response to psychedelics toward more therapeutic action has remained unexplored in recent research and thereby...
June 26, 2018
Justin Owen
1 citation
Western esotericism, or the practice of trying to understand divinity through secret initiatic means, exists in several philosophical strains, which mystics through the ages have formalized into systems of teaching. One aspect that appears in many of the traditions is music. Music is a direct language of the consciousness within esoteric traditions because it does not rely on language to...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
June 22, 2018
Ільїна Галина Володимирівна
preprint
The article examines the problem of visual perception in medieval philosophy, which demonstrates a position in relation to the vision and sight of Divine Light and Divine Wisdom in the philosophy of great thinkers of that period. John Scott Eriugenа, claims the author, all concrete things as the epiphany (theophany) appear as a certain visibility, which hides the spiritual foundation that is...