Journal of Outdoor Recreation Education and Leadership
October 19, 2014
Michael F. Pond, Bruce Martin, Elizabeth Fuller Collins et al.
5 citations
This research explores the role that climbing plays in the spirituality of climbers.Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted following the framework of phenomenology which yielded five major themes.This study identified ways in which climbing was spiritually enriching, climbing's influence on spiritual development and wellbeing, how climbing led to having spiritual experiences and the...
NeuroQuantology
September 24, 2014
Jie Huang, Ravi Prakash, Michele Caponigro
1 citation
A much repeated theme in spiritual experiences is that the subject often feels that he can experience multiple states at the same time or he can experience multiple states of time. This theme of simultaneous multiple states of awareness are a unique subject the scientific understanding of which remains almost nil. The most common simultaneously existing states of awareness recorded in the...
Indonesian Journal of Theology
September 7, 2014
Toar Banua Hutagalung
Relationality between Jesus the Son and God the Father becomes a perfect model of God and humanity. But, how do we understand the meaning of this relationality? Why in Hinduism, especially, in Advaitic tradition, this relationality issue becomes an essential element to realize the one God? Can we do a pilgrimage of our faith by comparing Christian and Hindu traditions? This study will examine...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
September 2, 2014
Leonard Hummel
10 citations
A new era has emerged in research on entheogens largely due to clinical trials conducted at Johns Hopkins University and similar studies sponsored by the Council for Spiritual Practices. In these notes and queries, I reflect on implications of these developments for psychological studies of religion and on what this research may mean for Christian churches in the United States. I conclude that...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
September 2, 2014
William A. Richards
17 citations
Renewed research with entheogens (psychedelic substances) has been able to facilitate the occurrence of mystical forms of consciousness in healthy volunteers with a high degree of reliability. This article explores the potential significance of this development for religious scholars, especially those interested in the study of mysticism. The definition of “mystical consciousness” employed in...
Spiritus
September 1, 2014
Jacob Holsinger Sherman
11 citations
On the Emerging Field of Contemplative Studies and Its Relationship to the Study of Spirituality Jacob Holsinger Sherman (bio) Scholars working within the fields of Christian Spirituality, spirituality studies, the study of mysticism, and other related areas may have noted the appearance of a cognate field, emerging largely over the last decade or so, now commonly identified as Contemplative...
Journal of Dharma Studies
August 5, 2014
G. Hayes
In recent decades, historians of religions have turned to, and developed, entirely new methodologies for the study of religion and human consciousness. Foremost among these are a collection of approaches often termed the “cognitive science of religion” (CSR), typically drawing on cognitive science, neuroscience, linguistics, and contemporary metaphor theory. Although we are still “early” in...
Philosophy East and West
July 1, 2014
Alan A. Preti
This article revisits a debate about the nature and function of anubhava or intuition in Advaita Vedānta. In their presentation of Indian thought to the West, neo-Vedāntins such as Vivekananda and Radhakrishnan emphasized intuitive experience as a unique means to brahmajñāna , or Brahman-realization. In so doing, they distanced themselves from the tradition’s emphasis on the role of scripture...
June 27, 2014
R. Bhagwan
Historically social work has shared a tenuous relationship with religion and spirituality. In an effort to hold onto its scientific roots, which began with the quest for professionalisation, it became suspicious of knowledge and experience that could not be fully quantified or rationally derived. It began to “distrust the language of higher transcendence, mystical connection, intuitive grasp”...
Kanz Philosophia : A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism
June 25, 2014
Abdul Aziz Abbacy
Abstract : Knowledge of the universe is one of the three necessary types of knowledge, i.e.: knowledge of God, knowledge of the Soul and knowledge of the universe. Most of the time we refer to it as (Mabdaa) or the Origin; how the world is created. Or what is known in theology as Creation ex nihilo: where creatures are distinct from their creator who is the First Cause, or in illuminative...