February 1, 2017
Mohsen Mohammad Pour, Hossein Valizade
Sylvia Plath’s mirror and Forough Farrokhzad’s the bird may die are two of the best known poems in the aspect of femininity, fighting for feminine rights and equality. The two poets though living distances apart, respectively in America and Iran, had the same poetic perspectives. These poems can be viewed in the aspect of mysticism and mystical state. The term mysticism defined by William James...
Open Theology
January 26, 2017
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
19 citations
AbstractApplying Michel Henry’s philosophical framework to the phenomenological analysis of religious experience, the author introduces a concept of material introspection and a new theory of the constitution of religious experience in phenomenologically material interiority. As opposed to ordinary mental self-scrutiny, material introspection happens when the usual outgoing attention is...
Joint Conference of the Information Retrieval Communities in Europe
2017
Matthew Owen
This study undertakes a comprehensive examination of neurofiction – a genre of literary fiction which has emerged in response to what scholars have termed neuroculture. Neuroculture refers to the cultural ascendancy of neuroscience witnessed by Anglo- American society over approximately the past thirty years, and the associated predominance of materialist conceptions of consciousness. By...
Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization
2017
Carimo Mohomed
2 citations
Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) was a prolific writer who authored many works covering various fields and genres such aspoetry, philosophy, and mysticism.He expressed his ideas in many forms and this paper, using his works, especially The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, deals with the question of time and history in his thought, particularly how he distinguished 'the past' from 'the...
Science Religion and Culture
2017
T. Peters
Even though Big History (BH) has successfully folded World History into Natural History, its method risks falling into a reductionist or materialist ideology we might label, scientism. BH’s windows remain closed to a fundamental human phenomenon, namely, the subjective experience of transcendent reality. Cosmic History, which augments BH, opens the big historian and the history student to...
Journal of Daoist Studies
2017
Steve Jackowicz
Physics, Physicality, and PhysiologyThe Foundation of Daoist Self-Cultivation Steve Jackowicz (bio) Daoist self-cultivation has a vast range of varied techniques. However, they can be broadly categorized into two taxonomic categories. The first is posture based approaches, including daoyin 导引 taolu 套路 qigong 气功 and the like. The second is seated approaches: zuowang 坐忘, neiguan 内观 neigong 内功,...
Roczniki Filozoficzne
2017
Mirosław Kiwka
Bernard McGinn is widely considered the preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition. He is a leading authority on the thought of the 14th-century mystic Meister Eckhart as well as on various issues concerning apocalypticism. His current long-range project is a six-volume history of Western Christian mysticism under the general title The Presence of God , five volumes of...
Liverpool John Moores University
2017
Steve Taylor
4 citations
Appendix 4: Transcripts of Interviews with Participants Interview Transcript -Pl Q: Was there a particular point at which you underwent transformation?Yes, it happened after a terrible breakup with my last girlfriend, and I was for the first time in my life thinking of giving up fighting for getting better from my deep depression.It was a sudden, and in fact brutal transformation induced in a...
Spiritus
2017
Shannon M. McAlister
Reviewed by: The Thirst of God: Contemplating God's Love with Three Women Mystics by Wendy Farley Shannon M. McAlister (bio) The Thirst of God: Contemplating God's Love with Three Women Mystics. By Wendy Farley. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015. 182 pp. $25.00 In The Thirst of God, Wendy Farley introduces "frustrated Christians" to the works of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite...
2017
Benno Alexander Blaschke
2 citations
In this study I aim to give an alternative approach to the way we theorise in the philosophy and comparative study of mysticism. Specifically, I aim to shift debate on the phenomenal nature of contemplative states of consciousness away from textual sources and towards reliable and descriptively rich first-person data originating in contemporary practices of lived traditions. The heart of this...