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February 16, 2010 Margaret Stutley
Shamanism is one of the earliest and farthest-reaching magical and religious traditions, vestiges of which still underlie the major religious faiths of the modern world. The function of the shaman is to show his or her people the unseen powers behind the mere appearances of nature, as experienced through intuition, in trance states, or during ecstatic mystical visions. Shamans possess healing...
February 16, 2010 Margaret Stutley
Shamanism is one of the earliest and farthest-reaching magical and religious traditions, vestiges of which still underlie the major religious faiths of the modern world. The function of the shaman is to show his or her people the unseen powers behind the mere appearances of nature, as experienced through intuition, in trance states, or during ecstatic mystical visions. Shamans possess healing...
February 16, 2010 Margaret Stutley
Shamanism is one of the earliest and farthest-reaching magical and religious traditions, vestiges of which still underlie the major religious faiths of the modern world. The function of the shaman is to show his or her people the unseen powers behind the mere appearances of nature, as experienced through intuition, in trance states, or during ecstatic mystical visions. Shamans possess healing...
February 16, 2010 I. M. Lewis
First Published in 2004. States of spirit possession, in which believer's feel themselves to be 'possessed' by the deity and raised to a new plane of existence, are found in almost all known religions. From Dionysiac cults to Haitia voodoo, Christian and Sufi mysticism to shamanic ritual, the rapture and frenzy of ecstatic experience forms an iconic expression of faith in all its devastating...
The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology January 30, 2010 Glenn Hartelius, Harris L. Friedman
Abstract Transpersonal psychology (TP) emerged in the United States during the 1960s, a turbulent time when psychedelic experimentation and the rediscovery of mysticism, primarily from Eastern and indigenous traditions, caused much deep reflection. It grew from the growing discontent by some humanistic psychologists who questioned the limitations of a solely human‐based psychology that paid...
Oxford University Press eBooks January 21, 2010 Michael N. Marsh 46 citations
What certainty is there for personal survival after death? Five key authors, critically analysed in this thesis, think that OB/ND experiences offer such assurances. Most OB/ND events follow severe clinical crises profoundly embarrassing cerebral function. At the nadir of brain function, invariably resulting in unconsciousness, authors aver that the escape of soul (Sabom), mind, or free...
January 7, 2010 Pericles Lewis
The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been the domain of religious mystics and believers. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis...
2010 Francesca Brezzi 2 citations
it is possible to speak of mystique when referring to Etty Hillesum? This present essay aims to answer to that question, which has been raised by several scholars and philosophers, with the help of Antonietta Potente's reflections, which can be considered parallel to Etty Hillesum's, at least to some extent. On the one hand, it has to be discarded the idea that the young Dutch- Dutch Jewish...
2010 Israel Koren
In this chapter, author wishes to refute dominant view among Buber scholars, that what differentiates Buber's book Daniel from I and Thou or, more broadly, Buber's earlier thought and his dialogical thought, is his approach to mysticism. The discussion of Buber's manner of confronting problem of multiplicity and phenomenological examination of mystical descriptions in his writing indicated that...
2010 Israel Koren
In this chapter, the author argues that the identification of Buber's decision on behalf of the world with his abandonment of experiential mysticism, and the view that it was this decision that facilitated the emergence of the dialogic principle in his writings a number of years later, has no basis in phenomenological terms. The author believes that Buber's conversion and the appearance of the...