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2015 S. Vörös
SAYING THE UNSAYABLE: MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE AND LANGUAGE The article considers whether, and to what extent, mystical experience, which is supposed to be transrational (non–dualist) and therefore ineffable, can be conveyed in language. The article consists of two parts. First, drawing on the Wittgensteinian distinction between “pointing” and “saying”, it is suggested that language not only speaks,...
Journal of Hindu-Christian studies 2015 Eiji Hisamatsu, Ramesh Pattni 1 citation
The present article will try to show differences and similarities in description about the ascetic teaching and mystical experience of two totally different spiritual traditions, i.e. in regard to the “Jesus Prayer” in the late Byzantine era and “yoga” in ancient India. A prayer made much use of by Christians in the Eastern Orthodox Church is the so-called “Jesus Prayer” or “Prayer of the...
2015 Francis-Vincent Anthony, C. Hermans, C. Sterkens
Religion in a pluralistic society can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution examines the causes of interreligious conflict as perceived by Christian, Muslim and Hindu college students in Tamil Nadu, India.
Explore 2015 Vernon M. Neppe, Edward R. Close
We argue that "non-local" events require further descriptors for us to understand the degree of non-locality, what the framework of the observer describing it is, and where we humans are located relative to the ostensible non-locality. This suggests three critical factors: Relative to, from the framework of, and a hierarchy of "to what degree?" "Non-locality" without the prefix "relative"...
Dialogo December 20, 2014 Michael B. Mensky
Mystical powers of consciousness, including the direct vision of truth and management a reality, are believed to exist. Various directions of spiritual knowledge, including world religions, deal with these phenomena. Many people are persuaded that mystical events cannot be explained by scientific methods, that they contradict to science. Suggested by the present author Quantum Concept of...
Revista Relegens Thréskeia December 18, 2014 Vladimir Luís de Oliveira
As reflexões que resultaram na produção deste artigo decorreram da necessidade de se investigar as nuances que envolvem a espiritualidade e espaço do sagrado, ao se considerar as experiências extáticas da Índia sobre o Samadhi. Compreende-se que as experiências extático-religiosas não são exclusividade do Oriente, e cada cultura religiosa organiza sua compreensão do espaço à luz de seus mitos....
Journal of Humanistic Psychology December 18, 2014 Yochai Ataria 24 citations
This article examines the similarity between the mystical experience and the traumatic experience, the latter involving a fundamental threat to life or bodily integrity. Despite the necessary caution and reservations, there are many similarities between these two kinds of experience. Indeed, the resemblance is not restricted to a phenomenological description but is far more deeply rooted: a...
Annals of Psychophysiology December 1, 2014 Waseem Hassan
Abstract\n\n“Royal road to the unconscious” as considered by Dr. Sigmund Freud during his dream analysis in 1900 gives a good start to the philosophers when it comes to satisfy their theories in psychophysiological manner. During the early stages of human evolution, there have always been physical and materialistic needs that were to be fulfilled as a necessity of survival. Dreams on the...
November 7, 2014 Boyung Lee
136 Finally, seven principles might guide both Evangelical and Reformed theology and piety. The first three are theological: mystical union correlates with several Reformed theological themes; Ambrose consistently holds a balance between Word and Spirit, creating a biblical theology of experience, a development of a sanctified reading of Scripture, and an experience of the fullness of God; and...
Journal of Hindu-Christian studies November 7, 2014 Holly Hillgardner
Mirabai, a sixteenth century bhakta, wrote passionate songs of her desire for God. Burning for him, she employed the genre of viraha-bhakti, a mystical eroticism of longing from the Vaiṣṇava tradition, as she begged for him to “[c]ome and extinguish the fire of separation.” Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century Beguine from low-country Europe, wrote poems, letters, and prose that tell of her longing...