Acta Theologica
December 11, 2015
F. Tomoioagă
The Hesychast debates of the 14th century between the representatives of the Western and Eastern tradition over the issue of the light seen in the experience of prayer are still relevant nowadays. Gregory Palamas – who was the central figure of these debates – was rediscovered in the 20th century by Orthodox Theology and is still in the process of reception in Western theology. The present...
Columbia University Press eBooks
December 8, 2015
William A. Richards, G. William Barnard
This chapter is written to highlight the category called Transcendence of Time and Space included in the definition of mystical consciousness.
Columbia University Press eBooks
December 8, 2015
William A. Richards, G. William Barnard
1 citation
Keywords: Internal Unity, External Unity, Walter Stace, Walter Pahnke, Kierkegaard, Aldous Huxley Internal Unity, External Unity, Walter Stace, Walter Pahnke, Kierkegaard, Aldous Huxley Subject Health Psychology
Columbia University Press eBooks
December 8, 2015
William A. Richards, G. William Barnard
Keywords: Walter Pahnke, CZ-74, CEY-19, Psilocybin, Hanscarl Leuner, Paul Tillich Walter Pahnke, CZ-74, CEY-19, Psilocybin, Hanscarl Leuner, Paul Tillich Subject Health Psychology
Studies in World Christianity
December 2, 2015
N. Watson, A. Parker
18 citations
The aim of this article is to examine the legitimacy of claims that athletes in extreme sports may encounter the mystical and sublime, when examined though a Christian theological lens. Drawing on the works of theologians and religious studies scholars – in particular, that of Richard Zaehner (1961) – and social scientists who have written on the topic of the mystical and sublime in sporting...
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology
December 2015
Bruno Marchal
I will explain how the mathematicians have discovered the universal numbers, or abstract computer, and I will explain some abstract biology, mainly self-reproduction and embryogenesis. Then I will explain how and why, and in which sense, some of those numbers can dream and why their dreams can glue together and must, when we assume computationalism in cognitive science, generate a...
Humanities
November 9, 2015
Bruce Greyson
31 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are vivid experiences that often occur in life-threatening conditions, usually characterized by a transcendent tone and clear perceptions of leaving the body and being in a different spatiotemporal dimension. Such experiences have been reported throughout history in diverse cultures, and are reported today by 10% to 20% of people who have come close to death....
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
October 13, 2015
Alex Dubilet
25 citations
Abstract In recent years, in the field of philosophy of religion, François Laruelle’s “non-philosophy” has opened up a path out of the battles between secularist philosophies and resurging Christian theologies. It has done so by theorizing the radical immanence of the Human (or, as he writes, Man-in-person) separated from and foreclosed to simultaneously the (philosophical) enclosure of the...
Unisia
October 1, 2015
Dini Rahma Bintari
1 citation
This paper discusses how empowerment can be triggered by mystical experiences, byfocusing on mystical experience of the first revelation of Islam to Muhammad PBUH. Only fewliterature on empowerment in mainstream psychology, specifically discuss how empowermentcan be achieved through personal mystical or spiritual experiences. Transpersonal studies giveexplanations of human mystical experiences...
Hybris
September 30, 2015
Szymon Nowak
PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE AND ITS COGNITIVE FUNCTION Among the features marking a mystical experience facilitated by certain kind of psychedelic substances researchers singled out the so-called noetic quality, which indicates that mystical experiences can have a cognitive significance. The main goal of my article is then to address the question, whether this cognitive capacity of mystical...