Transcultural Psychiatry
September 1, 2010
Simon Dein
30 citations
This article examines the relationship between Judeo-Christian religious experience and psychopathology. It builds on William James's Varieties of Religious Experience and more specifically his discussions of self, agency and the subliminal. Contemporary research on Christian conversion, mysticism, and its relationship to psychosis and mental health and healing are discussed. Future themes for...
Journal of MultiDisciplinary Evaluation
August 3, 2010
Craig Russon, Karen Russon
3 citations
Background: Since publishing a trilogy of articles relating Eastern mysticism to evaluation, the authors have received many inquiries about training. Purpose: The article explains one promising new method under development—adapting the Zen practice of kōans for evaluation training. Setting: Not applicable. Subjects: Not applicable. Research Design: Not applicable. Data Collection and Analysis:...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
July 8, 2010
Adela Pinch
In this chapter, I follow the thread of the previous chapter's investigation of nineteenth-century accounts of mental causation into the later decades of the century. The preceding chapter demonstrated that a focus on consciousness as a form of action could reveal strange philosophical bedfellows in the 1830s – a quirky but compelling idealist such as James Frederick Ferrier, and believers in...
June 30, 2010
José Luis Gómez Toré
The relationship between mysticism and poetry has become an almost inevitable topic in any study on the work of Jose Angel Valente. However, we must be careful when studying this relationship if we want to avoid an erroneous interpretation. We cannot take as starting point an a priori identification of the question about the Sacred (so important not only in contemporary poetry, but also in...
Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny
June 11, 2010
Mirosław Kiwka
Bernard McGinn is widely considered the preeminent scholar of mysticism in the Western Christian tradition. He is a leading authority on the theology of the 14th-century mystic Meister Eckhart as well as on various issues concerning apocalypticism. His current long-range project is a six-volume history of Western Christian mysticism under the general title The Presence of God, four volumes of...
CrossCurrents
June 1, 2010
M. Alejandro Chaoul, Lorenzo Cohen
5 citations
Rethinking Yoga and the Application of Yoga in Modern Medicine M. Alejandro Chaoul and Lorenzo Cohen Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means union, to yoke, or to join; the merging of the microcosm of our existence in our body with the macrocosm. In the West, yoga is often referred to as a mind‐body technique from Asia, usually categorized as meditation (for those seated practices) and yoga...
June 1, 2010
Francis-Vincent Anthony, C. Hermans, C. Sterkens
Hood developed a Mysticism Scale based on the theoretical work of Stace. The scale was tested by Hood and others in a comparative perspective. Using an abridged version of Hood's Mysticism Scale, we join the debate with a study of a much larger number of Christian, Muslim, and Hindu respondents (1,920 college students) living in Tamil Nadu, India. Our empirical analysis yields a moderately...
東吳中文學報
May 1, 2010
Liu Ling was one of the Seven Sages of Bamboo Grove in the period of Zhengshi (the dynasty name of Tsaur Fang, the third emperor of the Wei Kindom during the era of the Three Kindoms, 240 年~249 年) The reason that Liu Ling indulged in wine was largely influenced by the atmosphere of his era. The other reason was, through wine, people can reach the highest level of absolute understanding of...
American Journal of Islam and Society
April 1, 2010
Sajjad H Rizvi
Unfortunately there is still far too much by way of conjecture, innuendo,ahistoricity, ideology, and basic guesswork in the study of Islamic philosophyand mysticism, at least in what passes for historical studies of theseintellectual traditions. But as we have seen the serious study of intellectualhistory, particularly in the Graeco-Arabic period and in classical Islamdom,flourish, so too has...
Kabbalistic Culture of Eighteenth-century Prague
April 1, 2010
Sharon Flatto
This chapter reviews the concepts originating in Sefer yetsirah or Book of Creation that are found in several of Ezekiel Landau's writings, including zoharic motifs that repeatedly appear in his Prague works. It considers Sefer yetsirah as the first systematic Hebrew mystical treatise and oldest mystical text used by Landau. It also explores other writings by Landau that appropriate...