The Mystical Strategies of St. Teresa of Avila
Tattva - Journal of Philosophy June 9, 2011 Peter Mark Tyler
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Ex 3:14a-State of the Question and a Possible Chinese Mystical Interpretation
June 1, 2011 Tak-Kwong Chan
Few verses in the Old Testament have evoked such heated controversy and such widely divergent opinions as Ex3:14a (”I am who I am”). As to the verse, can one speak of an answer to the question? Is it only a refusal to answer?Or does it even disclose a dialectic relation between the two possibilities? Our study can be divided into three parts. The first part attempts to deal with the exegetical...
Hypernoetic Cognition and the Scope of Theurgy in Proclus
Arctos – Acta Philologica Fennica June 1, 2011 Tuomo Lankila 3 citations
tuoMo lAnkilA concept of the soul's ascent in Proclus is thoroughly theurgical, and for Dodds theurgical meant the same as occult and magic.Hans lewy saw (H.lewy, Chaldaean Oracles and Theurgy.Mysticism, Magic and Platonism in the Later Roman Empire.Nouvelle édition, Paris 1978 [orig.Cairo 1956, but Lewy's contribution was actually already written before 1945]) theurgy and philosophy as two...
Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth (review)
The Classical World June 1, 2011 Suzanne Lye
Reviewed by: Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth Suzanne Lye Yulia Ustinova . Caves and the Ancient Greek Mind: Descending Underground in the Search for Ultimate Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. x, 315. $95.00. ISBN 978-0-19-954856-9. Yulia Ustinova provides a study of the use of caves and underground chambers in ancient...
Mystical Experience Among Tibetan Buddhists: The Common Core Thesis Revisited
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion June 1, 2011 Zhuo Chen, Ralph W. Hood Jr., Lijun Yang et al. 63 citations
In the study of mysticism the debate has centered on whether a universal experiential core exists regardless of religious interpretation. The current investigation combines Jamesian empiricist and social constructivist perspectives to argue that stable experiential facets load variously on factors to construct local interpretations. Local interpretations reflect a family resemblance—a mystical...
Ecstatic Kabbalah as an Experiential Lore
Yale University Press eBooks May 17, 2011 Moshé Idel
This chapter describes how some modern scholars have focused their attention on theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah, a preeminently Spanish type of Kabbalah, and how they have pointed out the “casuistical” nature of Kabbalah as a whole. Part of this evaluation has to do with the marginalization of Abulafia's Kabbalah in the scholarship after the mid-1950s, despite Gershom Scholem's...
1412–1534: texts
Cambridge University Press eBooks May 12, 2011 Barry Windeatt 2 citations
It is a modern commonplace that the English fifteenth century – although an age of such flamboyant achievements in many of the arts – was a time of intellectual and spiritual repression, regulation and censorship, fearful of heresy and of innovation alike. Within this overstated larger picture of the age, modern assessment of contemplative life and literature in the fifteenth century becomes...
Incarnate Experience
Fordham University Press eBooks May 2, 2011 Richard Kearney, Kascha Semonovitch
This chapter deals with different kinds of experiences that pertain to corporeality. It distinguishes between “embodied experience” and “incarnate experience” where the latter includes visitations of the vertical or transcendent. This distinction between embodied and incarnate experience is not to advocate any kind of dualism; rather, it is an attempt to be attentive to modes of givenness that...
道家的自然體驗與冥契主義－神秘˙悖論˙自然˙倫理
臺大文史哲學報 May 1, 2011
This paper evaluates the experiences of the Dao from a popular mystical trend, and suggests that from the descriptions of Dao experiences in Laozi and Zhuangzi, it is possible to find powerful literature that corresponded to the core features of mysticism. At the same time, the experiences of the Dao have the ultimate meaning of art as a religion. Thus, this paper attempts to explore the...
Survival of occult practices and ideas in modern common sense.
Public Understanding of Science May 1, 2011 Sabine Doering-Manteuffel
For a long time rationalism and materialism were the most important ideological undercurrents of the Western world. Since the Enlightenment, in the eighteenth century, they have influenced the Age of Reason. During the past few decades, the so-called New Age originated strong counter-movements have produced a huge number of different new world-views. They are to be considered as part of the...