Spiritus
March 1, 2011
Ann Gleig
Reviewed by: The Participatory Turn: Thinking Beyond the Philosophies of Consciousness and Constructivism in the Study of Religion Ann Gleig (bio) The Participatory Turn: Thinking Beyond the Philosophies of Consciousness and Constructivism in the Study of Religion. Edited by Jorge N. Ferrer and Jacob H. Sherman. Albany: SUNY Press, 2008. 396 pp. $34.95 If we recognize the radically creative...
The Open Information Science Journal
February 8, 2011
T. Anthony Marcus
3 citations
The purpose of this paper is to initiate a broader dialogue on the use of integrated intelligence (or INI) in formal research.The application of INI in research is referred to as integrated inquiry.The idea of integrated intelligence, and its specific applications, can be viewed as genuine cognitive processes, or for the more skeptical, as provocations to inspire the researcher toward greater...
Oxford University Press eBooks
February 2, 2011
Nevill Drury
1 citation
Abstract If we are to understand the nature of contemporary magical practice and its relationship with the "virtual" world of the Internet, it may well be that new paradigms are required—new paradigms for research into altered states of consciousness and new paradigms for the study of magic, as well. This chapter explores magic in the digital age, commencing with Terence McKenna's "cyberdelic"...
Oxford University Press eBooks
February 2, 2011
Nevill Drury
Abstract This chapter profiles three notable twentieth-century occultists—Dion Fortune, Austin Osman Spare, and Rosaleen Norton. All three can be regarded as key bridging figures linking earlier generations of magical practitioners with the contemporary neopagan movement. Dion Fortune (1890–1946) studied psychoanalysis at the University of London. Through her friend Maiya Curtis-Webb, Violet...
January 30, 2011
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus is the title customarily given to the autobiography of Teresa of Ávila. Begun around 1562 and revised a few years later at the urging of her confessors, both as a way to examine her spiritual development and to spread the story of God's work in her life, the book traces her religious experience from early childhood to the time of writing. As such it was both a...
Rombach Wissenschaft – ein Verlag in der Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft eBooks
2011
Peter R. Murphy
The Chariot of Fire: Terrorism, Liberalism, and the Mystic Attitude Zusammenfassung Patrick White's novel, Riders in the Chariot, develops a critique of Weimar German liberalism from a mystical standpoint, explaining the intellectual weakness of liberalism and depicting the response of the mysticism of fire, in part historically based, to the systemic terror of Nazism.The scenes from the novel...
2011
Jacqueline A. Loeb
1 citation
This comparative analysis of Freudian psychoanalysis and Jewish mystical writing examines the thematic preoccupations, hermeneutic strategies, and discursive structures that link these two bodies of thought. It maintains that early Kabbalist writing and Freudian psychoanalysis share an inherently Jewish episteme, with a fundamental consistency and common ethos. The analysis argues that Jewish...
Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
2011
Louis Komjathy
4 citations
Specific Daoist adherents and communities emphasize the importance of corporeality and physicality, specifically one’s body as the Dao as sacred locale. But the “Daoist body,” as those who are familiar with the work of such influential scholars as Kristofer Schipper, Livia Kohn, and Catherine Despeux know, is multidimensional. It is not simply the anatomical and physiological given of...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2011
Rodney Irwin
This thesis attempts to explain some essential aspects of the literature of Henry Miller by concentrating on an explication of three terms as they apply to Miller's novels. The thesis does not take a stance involving a certain critical "distance", that is, it does not deal with an evaluation of the success or failure of his vision, nor with the validity or invalidity of his world. This, I...
E-Theologos Theological revue of Greek Catholic Theological Faculty
2011
Karel Sládek
Mystical Harmony of Nikolaj Losskij with Vladimír Hoppe The article presents a mystical harmony of Nikolaj Losskij with Vladimír Hoppe. Losskij and Hoppe were very spiritually close to each other because both of them followed from mystic tradition of Christianity through which they consequently analyzed, sorted out and classified knowledge of philosophers and mystics of all religions. Losskij...