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September 1, 2009
This article compares St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila with regard to their theories and practice of contemplation. Similarities and contrasts between them are studied with the discovery that the two systems throw light on each other in different ways resulting in a comprehensive synthesis which is at the summit of western mysticism.
Stanford University Press eBooks June 29, 2009
Central to kabbalistic behavior is the conduct of the mind, as reflected in the marked emphasis of the texts of medieval Kabbalah on concrete instruction and prescription. Because Isaac ben Samuel of Akko was indebted to the meditative posture of eastern Kabbalah, this characterization is highly applicable to his two works, Me'irat 'Einayim and 'Ozar Hayyim. Isaac's attempt to instruct his...
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science June 2, 2009 Ann Taves 13 citations
William James's The Varieties of Religious Experience is one of the world's most popular attempts to meld science and religion. Academic reviews of the book were mixed in Europe and America, however, and prominent contemporaries, unsure whether it was science or theology, struggled to interpret it. James's reliance on an inherently ambiguous understanding of the subconscious as a means of...
Sleep Science June 1, 2009 C Timo‐Iaria, Angela C. Valle
Dreaming has been a subject of cogitation since remote Antiquity. In ancient Greece, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle discussed about the meaning of dreams, concluding that the prevailing mistic and mythic concepts about them were incorrect. Instead, they thought that dreams were not provoked by spirits, ghosts or gods, which took over the mind to express themselves through dreaming. Aristotle[ 1...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs June 1, 2009 Stephen Trichter, Jon Klimo, Stanley Krippner 73 citations
Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic plant brew from the Amazon basin used as part of healing ceremonies by the local indigenous people of the region for centuries, is now being consumed by growing numbers of people throughout the world. Anecdotal evidence and previous research suggest that there are spiritual effects experienced among participants who take part in ayahuasca ceremonies. The current...
Journal of Spirituality in Mental Health May 12, 2009 Linda Bell 14 citations
This article focuses on meditation and the benefits it can bring to psychotherapy practice, both through the person of the therapist and as therapeutic method. A regular meditation practice supports the clarity of mind that the therapist brings to his or her work and can thus greatly impact both the quality and usefulness of the work, as well as the health of the therapist. The relationship...
Psychology of Religion and Spirituality May 1, 2009 Kenneth Bond, Maria B. Ospina, Nicola Hooton et al. 67 citations
The authors used a 5-round Delphi study with a panel of 7 experts in meditation research to achieve agreement on a set of criteria for a working definition of “meditation” for use in a comprehensive systematic review of the therapeutic use of meditation. Participants agreed that essential to a meditation practice is its use of (a) a defined technique, (b) logic relaxation, and (c) a...
Literary and Linguistic Computing April 16, 2009 Mary K. Tripp
William S. Haney, in his wide-ranging overview of consciousness studies and science-fiction literature in the posthuman era, creates a compelling argument for the return of consciousness studies to the field of English studies. More convincing is his analysis of short science fiction literature, specifically cyberpunk, and the posthuman condition. Haney brings to the discussion a learned...
The Heythrop Journal April 7, 2009 Edward Howells 1 citation
Pp. xii, 324 , Oxford , Oxford University Press , 2005 , £55.00. This study of mystical experience examines what are called ‘extrovertive mystical experiences’. These are ‘mystical’ experiences in the sense that they display certain features commonly associated with mysticism, especially the sense of unity, knowledge and contact with reality, and ‘extrovertive’ in that they are experiences of...
Romanticism April 1, 2009 Nicholas Morrow Williams 4 citations
Of all the genealogies of Romantic phrases or ideas, perhaps none interests today’s students more than the line of descent by which a gnomic statement from William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (‘If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite’) becomes the title of Aldous Huxley’s 1954 exploration of psychedelic drug use, The Doors of...