Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия
May 11, 2018
Natalia Vaganova
The initial lines of The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (Rus. Столп и утверждение Истины) in the renowned defi nition of “living religious experience as the only legitimate means of comprehending the dogma” prescribe that philosophical refl ection and theological speculation should always proceed following living life. The latter is considered in the person-oriented aspect as a spiritual...
May 8, 2018
Richard L. Kradin
The dream communicates a symbolic narrative, but few modern dreamers can fully appreciate its significance without assistance. The day residue represents perceptions registered while awake that appear in the dream of the same night. Whereas memories contribute to dreams, there is little reason to conclude that when embroidered into the dream narrative that they refer to actual past events. It...
May 8, 2018
Nigel Hamilton, Aaron Balick, Alexandra Chalfont et al.
In David&s;s initiation dream, he has a glimpse into the awakening ahead and finds that: "lights and colours of every hue are all manifest in this vast heavenly space". Darkness is acting as a veil protecting us from premature exposure to the hidden, psychic forces of our inner world. Mystical experiences of colour and light have in common the sense of attention and consciousness being totally...
May 8, 2018
Raul Moncayo
Sigmund Freud conceived of psychoanalytic practice as different from that of priests and pastoral or educational counsellors. The deadly aspect of mystical experience destroys identity in the sense that it destroys the illusory or imaginary notion of ego. Zen practice is commonly referred to as leading to an ego-death. Psychoanalysis, and Lacanian psychoanalysis in particular, contains a very...
May 8, 2018
Evelyn Underhill
“Conversion,” says Starbuck, in words which are really far more descriptive of mystical awakening than of the revivalistic phenomena encouraged by American Protestantism, is primarily an unselfing. Sometimes the emergence of the mystical consciousness is gradual, unmarked by any definite crisis. The self slides gently, almost imperceptibly, from the old universe to the new. The records of...
Ekstasis Revista de Hermenêutica e Fenomenologia
May 2, 2018
Lucero González Suárez
El presente artículo es un análisis fenomenológico de la Subida del Monte Carmelo, cuyo propósito es mostrar que la Noche Oscura es una misteriofanía negativa que acoge tres sentidos. En primer lugar, San Juan de la Cruz llama Noche Oscura a la negación de los apetitos relativos a las potencias. En segundo lugar, la fe es Noche Oscura para el hombre, porque la donación de lo divino causa...
Philosophy Study
April 28, 2018
Marc Jean-Bernard
The philosophical horizon of this essay is theoretically comparative and hermeneutically dialogic. Its main philosophical and theological tonality expresses, in first person and through three discursive moments, the differentiated fusion of horizons between phenomenological and grammatical description and understanding of experience. After a philosophical overture—outlining the éthos of the...
Routledge eBooks
April 27, 2018
Susan Blackmore, Emily T. Troscianko
The Buddha claimed to have ‘woken up’, describing a way to end suffering by seeing all phenomena as impermanent and letting go of desire and the illusory self. Many others have described awakening, but do they all undergo the same changes in self and consciousness? Buddhism has interacted more closely with science and psychotherapy than other religions, perhaps because of its relative lack of...
Medjugorje and the Supernatural
April 19, 2018
Daniel Maria Klimek
This chapter studies a major debate that has emerged in the second-half of the twentieth century between scholars of mysticism. The debate is between perennialist scholars and constructivist scholars. Perennialism sees mystical experiences as transcending culture, language, and time-period, and pointing to a unified spiritual experience among various peoples, while constructivism sees mystical...
Oxford University Press eBooks
April 19, 2018
Daniel Maria Klimek
Cognitive sciences like neuroscience have been used to study more common, cultivated, or induced religious experiences like states of meditation or prayer; however, in Medjugorje, it is the first time that spontaneous and extraordinary mystical experiences, such as visionary experiences in the form of Marian apparitions, have been studied by neuroscience as they are transpiring: pointing to...