September 1, 2016
A. Vega
Throughout the twentieth century different hermeneutics of nega- tivity helped reflect on the spiritual debts to negative theology, and in par- ticular to the major mystical trends of Medieval Europe. The technical term "Apophatic (or negative) Aesthetics" is proposed to define the work of some twentieth-century artists, who are considered the heirs of these traditions. In this article, a...
September 1, 2016
Nour Seblini
Abstract Journey emerges in multiple faces in literature. But when this substantial subset of quests adopts the mystical aspect, it creates a mystery that triggers the discovery sense in human beings. The present article develops a comparative analysis on the complex nature of mystical metamorphosis as expressed in two of the most influential writings of the East and West: Rumi’s Masnavi and...
Veritas
September 1, 2016
En el mbito de la situacin presente de crisis de lo humano, as como de la efusin actual del fenmeno mstico, esta reflexin se aproxima a la experiencia mstica contempornea a travs de uno de sus testigos: Etty Hillesum. El acercamiento a la trama narrativa de su diario hizo posible que el decir del ser, el decir sobre lo humano en la experiencia mstica se abriera paso a travs de un ejercicio...
Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental
September 1, 2016
José Carlos Bouso, Eduardo José Pedrero-Pérez, Sam Gandy et al.
48 citations
In the present study we explored the psychometric properties of three widely used questionnaires to assess the subjective effects of hallucinogens: the Hallucinogen Rating Scale (HRS), the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ), and the Addiction Research Center Inventory (ARCI). These three questionnaires were administered to a sample of 158 subjects (100 men) after taking ayahuasca, a...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
August 31, 2016
Stuart Sarbacker
Abstract The contemporary academic study of religion has its roots in conceptual and theoretical structures developed in the early to mid-20th century. A particularly important example of such a structure is the concept of the “numinous” developed by the theologian and comparativist Rudolf Otto (1869–1937) in his work, The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of...
Journal of literature and art studies
August 30, 2016
R. Dole
once confided to his secretary at Harvard that he was a schizophrenic. In this article, the author, who is also a schizophrenic, discusses symptoms of schizophrenia in Tillich's biography and theology. Tillich had always insisted that his theology was one of the kairos. By hiding his theological thought behind an arcane Greek word, Tillich dissimulated his own messiah complex. On several...
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...