DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)
February 19, 2009
محمدرضا حاجی آقا بابایی
One of the subjects which proceeded on Iranian cultural domain in the Qajar era was philosophical and mystic issues. Due to the presence of most of the elites in Tehran in the Qajar era, a circle was formed in the domain of philosophical and mystic thoughts, titled the school of Tehran. The important people of this school of thought produced miscellaneous works of philosophy and mysticism, most...
February 12, 2009
Sarah Coakley
32 citations
Abstract This chapter explores the mystical writings of St Teresa of Ávila with an eye to providing certain correctives to analytic appropriations of St Teresa's work. It begins with a playful feminist analysis of some of the most important turns to religious experience in analytic philosophy of religion in recent decades, which lead on, in the light of a feminist critique, to an analysis of...
NeuroQuantology
February 3, 2009
Ravi Prakash, Michele Caponigro
5 citations
Subjectivity or the problem of ‘qualia’ tends to make the accessibility and comprehension of psychological events intangible especially for scientific exploration. The issue becomes even more complicated but interesting when one turns towards mystical experiences. Such experiences are different from other psychological phenomena in the sense that they don’t occur to every one, so are difficult...
Journal of Near-Death Studies
2009
Roberta Moore
Letter written to the editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies responding to the article, "Did Emanuel Swedenborg Have Near-Death Experiences? Envisioning a Developmental Account of NDEs" by Jones and Ferneyhough.
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2009
Chuck MacKnee
1 citation
This qualitative study explored the meaning and description of profound sexual and spiritual connection among practising Christians. Investigations of the conditions and events that led to these peak encounters as well as the aftereffects of such experiences were also conducted. It was purposed that this research would enhance understanding of sexual and spiritual connection, inform theories of...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2009
James L. Fredericks
Reviewed by: Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World James L. Fredericks Healing Breath: Zen for Christians and Buddhists in a Wounded World. By Ruben Habito. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2006. xiv + 164 pp. The acknowledgments offered by Ruben Habito in the first pages of his book tell quite a story. Among others, Habito gives thanks to Jesuits of the Japanese...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2009
David King, Teresa L. DeCicco
111 citations
A four-factor model of spiritual intelligence is first proposed. Supportive evidence is reviewed for the capacities of critical existential thinking, personal meaning production, transcendental awareness, and conscious state expansion. Based on this model, a 24-item self-report measure was developed and modified across two consecutive studies (N = 619 and N = 304, respectively). The final...
Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie
2009
Wolfgang Achtner
3 citations
SUMMARY This paper addresses three issues. In the first part the relation between consciousness and time is being discussed as it developed in the history of philosophy and theology. This covers Plato, Plotinus and St. Augustine. It continues in the second part to describe that time is being perceived in the mystical consciousness as eternity which means in this context timelessness. Examples...
2009
J. Jakonen
The American philosopher Ken Wilber has taken on a sizeable challenge by trying to unsnarl the modern world-knot and its secular worldview. In the course of his almost forty years of predominantly solitary study (he has worked outside academia for the best part of his career) and writing, Wilber has produced a body of work that spans from consciousness studies to sociology and anthropology, to...
2009
Nevill Drury
8 citations
The modern magical revival has been unfolding for over a century. This chapter explores the principal sources of the Western esoteric tradition that helped generate the revival of magical thought and practice in the modern era. According to Gershom Scholem, widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent authorities on the origins and symbolism of the Kabbalah, the medieval Kabbalah belongs to an...