European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
June 21, 2015
David Bradshaw
Most characterizations of mystical experience emphasize its private, esoteric, and non-sensory nature. Such an understanding is far removed from the original meaning of the term mystikos. For the ancient Greeks, the ‘mystical’ was that which led participants into the awareness of a higher reality, as in the initiatory rites of the ancient mystery cults. This usage was taken over by the early...
Psychiatric News
June 12, 2015
Aaron R. Levin
Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Association NewsFull Access‘All You Need is Love,’ Says 1960s Guru Ram DassAaron LevinAaron LevinSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:12 Jun 2015https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.pn.2015.6b15AbstractA search for deeper truths along the life course occupied the psychologist who became Ram Dass.At APA’s 2015 annual meeting in...
Oxford Handbook Topics in Religion
May 5, 2015
Ariel Glucklich
Abstract: This article considers a broad selection of mystical writings to identify in ecstatic mystical experience two fundamental dimensions: a feeling of self-transcendence and an extremely high level of positive affect. The article argues that pain is instrumental in promoting both experiences and is therefore extremely pervasive among mystics who report ecstatic states of consciousness. A...
Neurology
May 1, 2015
Francisco de Assis Aquino Gondim, Sarah H Griesbach, Florian P Thomas
Objective: To discuss the neuropsychiatric phenomena described in Cantigas de Santa Maria (Canticles of St. Mary [CSM]). Background: CSM is a collection of 427 canticles composed in Galician-Portuguese between 1252 and 1284 at the Court of King Alfonso X the Wise of Spain (1221-1284). The canticles (of which 9 are repeated) include devotional and liturgical poems and 353 narrative stories...
May 1, 2015
Yurii Y. Semchuk
The Purpose is to analyse problems of individual freedom in mystical currents of Hesychasm and Sufism comprehensively in the territory of Ukraine. It deals with issues of Hesychasm and Sufism origin, mystical practices features and their overflowing borrowing on the way to Truth by God finding. Methodology. With a view to the reconstruction of a holistic world view of the desert in their...
University of Illinois Press eBooks
May 1, 2015
Stephen Siff
26 citations
Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of American respectability, trumpeted its grand arrival in a postwar landscape scoured of alluring descriptions of drug use while lesser outlets piggybacked on their coverage with stories by turns sensationalized and glowing. This book offers the untold tale...
Journal of Cognitive Historiography
April 29, 2015
Nickolas P. Roubekas
In Book 11 of Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses the protagonist, Lucius, transformed into an ass due to misusage of witchcraft encounters Isis through a dream while sleeping at a remote beach in central Greece. This incident results in the retransformation of Lucius into a man and his subsequent dedication to Isis. However, the information we have from the text regarding both what preceded and...
April 15, 2015
Chapter Three. The Stream of Mystical Consciousness: The Character of Mystical Experience and the Way that it is Shaped as Literature in “The Guest Who Came In” was published in The Revealed and Hidden Writings of Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav on page 90.
The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition
March 10, 2015
Ritsuko Okano
3 citations
Kitarō Nishida is the most important and representative philosopher in modern Japan, who now attracts increasing attention internationally. He endeavored to give a logical foundation to the Eastern way of thinking through his confrontation with Western philosophers. The aim of this paper is to recover the modern and intercultural significance of Plotinus’ philosophy in the light of Nishida’s...
Religions
March 6, 2015
Brian L. Lancaster
6 citations
Many mystical texts convey insights into the nature of mind that have the potential to assist in the framing of scientific models in psychology and neuroscience. In many cases, however, the insights are concealed within complex, codified symbolic systems, meaning that the reader must engage with the hermeneutic employed by the texts’ authors in order to access the insights. Combining such a...