Journal of Analytical Psychology
September 1, 2008
Paul Bishop
6 citations
In 1930 Jung gave a lecture entitled 'Archaic Man' to the Lesezirkel in Hottingen. Following recent work on this text by two commentators, this article uses their interpretations as a springboard for a complementary reading, which emphasizes the fundamental significance of this paper as bridging the earlier and later stages in the development of analytical psychology, and examines closely the...
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
August 22, 2008
رضا اکبریان, املی نوو اگلیز
The fact that Corbin left the realm of Western philosophy to devote himself to Islamic philosophy and Iranian theosophers has usually been considered as a radical "rupture" in Corbin's philosophical thought. This article aims at showing that in reality, there is no contradiction but rather a deep continuity in his philosophical path, which was guided by a unique quest of being. Corbin was...
Neuroscience Letters
August 15, 2008
Mario Beauregard, Vincent Paquette
105 citations
Mystical experiences relate to a fundamental dimension of human existence. These experiences, which are characterized by a sense of union with God, are commonly reported across all cultures. To date, no electroencephalography (EEG) study has been conducted to identify the neuroelectrical correlates of such experiences. The main objective of this study was to measure EEG spectral power and...
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy
July 1, 2008
R. Gale
In this appreciation of John Dewey's enormous contribution to American philosophy, Richard M Gale argues that what makes Dewey's philosophy unique and exciting is his attempt to synthesize what Gale calls 'Prometheanism' with Dewey's unique brand of mysticism. As Gale points out, Dewey celebrated human beings as Promethean creators of meaning and value through the active control of nature. But...
ANIMA Indonesian Psychological Journal
July 1, 2008
Lidia Laksana Hidajat
The study on trance phenomenon is hardly ever done, in view of the fact that in Indonesia, trance or known as kesurupan tend to be accepted as a common cultural phenomenon, especially at many areas where traditional and mystical beliefs are profound, and spiritual practices are still carried out. While Indonesia is making a hard effort to build up its nation, and whereas modernization could be...
June 30, 2008
John Dourley
2 citations
Chapter 7 presented evidence that Jung understood the process of individuation to entail not only a return to the unconscious as the origin of consciousness but also an immersion of the ego into the unconscious beyond all difference and differentiation. It is this side of the individuation process that aligns Jung’s psychology with the mystical experience of a loss in a formless nothingness which...
Journal of Holistic Nursing
June 1, 2008
Alison S Witte, Dirk M Van der Wal, H Chrissie Steyn
6 citations
Eighteen participants in a rural Appalachian community were interviewed to learn about their mystical experiences in the context of health care. Semistructured interviews addressed factors initiating mystical experience and essential qualities of mystical experience. Nursing process and the nurse's response were examined. Data were analyzed using the immersion/crystallization method and concept...
Cambridge University Press eBooks
May 22, 2008
Toby Mayer
23 citations
INTRODUCTION Concepts of God aremere simulacra. Such, in brief, was the teaching of the great Hispano-Arab mystical theologian Muhyi'l-Dīn ibn 'Arabī (d. 1240). In his typically outspoken formulation, the conceptual God is just a “created God”. He is, according to Ibn 'Arabī's expression “the God created in dogmas” ( al-Haqq al-makhlūq fi'l-i'tiqādāt ). In the Islamic ethos, such a deity is...
The Journal of American Culture
May 12, 2008
Kyle William Bishop
54 citations
With the popular success of the first talkie horror films, Hollywood of the 1930s was anxious to find the next big-screen monster.Surprisingly, the creative efforts of filmmakers lead them not to the usual mythologies of Europe but rather to exotic Caribbean travel literature.Sensational books like William B. Seabrook's The Magic Island of 1929 had begun to draw the American public's attention...
Journal of Religious Ethics
March 1, 2008
Omar Sultan Haque
20 citations
ABSTRACT The Islamic philosophical, mystical, and theological sub‐traditions have each made characteristic assumptions about the human person, including an incorporation of substance dualism in distinctive manners. Advances in the brain sciences of the last half century, which include a widespread acceptance of death as the end of essential brain function, require the abandonment of dualistic...