Acta Poética
August 17, 2016
Tatiana Bubnova
A series of ethical and religious themes, motives and concerns are shown,which are recurrent in the less studied poetic work of Efrén Hernández. Standingout are the themes of interior life and spiritual experience , manifested inthe search for God and transcendence, in the spiritual journey and autoscopicregard of man, as well as in human love and in the question regarding good andevil. These...
August 1, 2016
Jennifer Lopes
Le Santo Daime, culte brésilien amazonien, s’est implanté dans la Belle Province depuis une vingtaine d’années. Issue d’un syncrétisme qui mêle traditions indigènes, afro-brésiliennes, catholiques, ésotériques et spirites européennes, cette religion est intrinsèquement liée à la culture brésilienne et plus particulièrement à l’Amazonie dans son usage de l’ayahuasca, une substance hallucinogène....
World neurosurgery
August 1, 2016
Eelke M Bos, Jochem K H Spoor, Marion Smits et al.
The out-of-body experience (OBE), during which a person feels as if he or she is spatially removed from the physical body, is a mystical phenomenon because of its association with near-death experiences. Literature implicates the cortex at the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) as the possible anatomic substrate for OBE. We present a patient who had an out-of-body experience during an awake...
July 26, 2016
Farshad Aliyari, Qorban Elmi, A. Alizamani
The purpose of this paper is to consider most critical issues of mystical epistemology in Rumi and Bonaventura once the views on subject, reality of the world, and the possibility of knowledge were expressed. This research referring works of Rumi and Bonaventura studies this issue through a descriptive-analytical method. Rumi and Bonaventura recognized three stages of human recognition realm...
July 4, 2016
M. Stróżyński
The subject of the article is analysis of mystical experience in Plotinus’ philosophy from the perspective of the experience of the self. The author point to two distinct levels of contemplation present in Plotinu: the noetic and the hypernoetic one. The first is an intellectual intuition of the true being, while the latter is a union with the One above being through unknowing. Hypernoetic...
Hikmet Yurdu Dusunce-Yorum Sosyal Bilimler Arastirma Dergisi
July 2, 2016
Mehmet Serdal Eglen
Oz: Anadolu sahasi tasavvuf edebiyatinin buyuk ismi Yunus Emre’nin siirlerinden onun varlik, mevcudat ve yokluk uzerine olan goruslerine ulasmak mumkundur. Tasavvufun temel meselelerinden olan soz konusu mefhumlar Yunus Emre’de son derece veciz bicimde dile getirilmislerdir. Varlik meselesine dogrudan veya dolayli olarak temas eden misralari incelendiginde onun varliga ve keza yokluga yukledigi...
Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
July 1, 2016
Rohit Manchanda
Authors : Varsha Dutta Publisher : Narosa Publishing House Pvt. Ltd. ISBN : 978-81-8487-570-6 Price : 1000rs/- Year of Publication : 2016 Pages : 108 pp Among the diseases that afflict the mind, depression is one of the most forbidding, a scourge that ranks very much on a par with Alzheimer's disease or with fulminant schizophrenia for its calamitous effects. It can at times descend on its...
Journal of the history of ideas
July 1, 2016
Mark Sinclair
16 citations
In his wartime discourses of 1914, Henri Bergson mobilizes his philosophy of creative evolution: France is a nation of creative life able to replenish itself, whereas Germany, for all its technological might, is a mechanistic power bound to wear itself out. This paper shows that this moblization is made possible by Bergson's philosophy of will: life as a creative principle is will, and it is a...
Neurología
June 21, 2016
M Arias
All human experiences, including mystical and religious ones, are the result of brain functional activity. Thanks to the study of cases of ecstatic epilepsy with structural (MRI) and functional neuroimaging (fMRI, PET, SPECT) and neurophysiological technologies (recording and stimulation with intracranial electrodes), we now have a better knowledge of certain mental states which involve...
Kanz Philosophia : A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism
June 15, 2016
Bagus Laksana
This essay endeavors to look closely at the mystical theological anthropology of Hamzah Fansuri, the first and one of the greatest Sufi writers in the Malay world. Mystical anthropology is arguably the underlying theme of all Fansuri’s poems and he develops this mystical discourse on the theomorphic dignity of every human person, together with the dynamic of return to God, by using some quite...