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Desert Christians July 1, 2004 William, S.J. Harmless
Abstract Evagrius Ponticus was one of the great pioneers of Christian mystical theology. He spoke of prayer as “the ascent of the mind to God” and argued that “pure prayer” must be unceasing, imageless, and wordless. At the peak of the mystical journey, the monk encounters what Evagrius called the “sapphire light of the mind,” both an interior illumination and a glimpse of the uncreated light...
Journal of Contemporary Religion May 1, 2004 A. Dawson 3 citations
This article engages with the post-1992 (Rio Earth Summit) writings of Leonardo Boff, one of the most prolific and widely read Brazilian writers in the religious field today. The article first outlines Boff's understanding of the prevailing global market paradigm, guided by 'liberal capitalist' values and at the point of crisis. Boff's appreciation of the emergent 'new science' paradigm as...
British Journal of Psychology May 1, 2004 Rense Lange, Bruce Greyson, James Houran 98 citations
For those with true near-death experiences (NDEs), Greyson's (1983, 1990) NDE Scale satisfactorily fits the Rasch rating scale model, thus yielding a unidimensional measure with interval-level scaling properties. With increasing intensity, NDEs reflect peace, joy and harmony, followed by insight and mystical or religious experiences, while the most intense NDEs involve an awareness of things...
Psychological Science March 24, 2004 Willoughby B. Britton, Richard R Bootzin 156 citations
Many studies in humans suggest that altered temporal lobe functioning, especially functioning in the right temporal lobe, is involved in mystical and religious experiences. We investigated temporal lobe functioning in individuals who reported having transcendental "near-death experiences" during life-threatening events. These individuals were found to have more temporal lobe epileptiform...
Pizhūhish/hā-yi falsafī- kalāmī. March 20, 2004 Mohammad Hadi Mollazade
In this article the views of two great Sufi Muslim and Christian, the son of Arabic and Maystrakhart investigated. Noting the brief life and works of these two great mystic, to explain the similarity of their ideas in the field of metaphysics, God, and how the creation of the world God's ultimate creation of this kind of material. The author also reviews the arc of ascent and descent, the issue...
Fenomena March 12, 2004 Syamsun Ni’am
The 6th and 7th centuries Hijriyah saw the institutionalization of Sufism into formal orders (tarekat), yet the specific intellectual contributions of Abu Al-Hasan Al-Syadzili remain underexplored in contemporary scholarship. This study examines the core aspects of Al-Syadzili’s Sufi thought and their influence on Islamic mysticism. Using a qualitative library research method with...
Identifying the Mind January 15, 2004 George Graham, Elizabeth R. Valentine
Abstract The story I shall tell is a piece of autobiography. But it is not, as you might sup pose, a record of my own mystical experiences. For I do not claim to have had any. It is rather a record of a thought process that led from a childhood interest in religion, through an adolescent interest in mystical experience as a psycho logical phenomenon, to the publication forty years ago in the...
Journal of Pastoral Care & Counseling 2004 Cullene Bryant
In this essay the author suggests that a deepening of one's spirituality may be the nurture that is required to remain fulfilled when working in the health care professions; and she illustrates this thesis by tracing a young chaplain's deepening spiritual journey in a Clinical Pastoral Education program. As the young aspiring chaplain attempts to minister to Joe, a dying farmer, he embarks on a...
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 2004 James A. Wiseman
486 BOOK REVIEWS such a difficult text and producing a good workable translation out of difficult, academic German. Nevertheless, too often the translation reads not like natural, if academic, English prose but precisely like a translation from academic German in which the sentences are overly long and the subordinate clauses tangle and pile up. Finally, while the editors are to be commended...
Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 2004 Leon Schlamm, Society For Indian Philosophy And Religion
Abstract I identify two problematic strands of Ken Wilber's transpersonal theory. First, I question Wilber's claim that his spectrum model is supported by the materials of all the world's major mystical traditions. I argue that his integral, hierarchical perspective privileges some traditions but distorts others. Drawing heavily upon Andrew Rawlinson's recent, taxonomic study of mystical...