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...
American Indian Culture and Research Journal
2004
Thomas F. Weso
1 citation
A nondescript rock shelter in Texas provides unexpected evidence for shamanism in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. There, archaeologists found clearly identifiable images of antlered human figures and entheogenic plant substances, including datura (jimson weed), peyote, and ephedra (Indian or Mormon tea), items associated with shamanistic practices. From a more recent site in Bandolier, New...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2004
David Kowalewski
2 citations
Ecopsychology—the use of nature for understanding and healing the soul—has become accepted as a legitimate tool by theorists and practitioners alike. Yet one important dimension of the field has been ignored: metaphysical tracking. This article brings to light a number of mystical phenomena that trackers, ancient and modern, have experienced, and suggests their common root in the so-called...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2004
Paul O. Ingram
Reviewed by: The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness Paul O. Ingram The Other Side of Nothingness: Toward a Theology of Radical Openness. By Beverly J. Lanzetta. Albany: State University of New York, 2001. 182 pp. The central thesis of The Other Side of Nothingness is that apophatic mystical experience offers Christians a theology of humility sensitive to religious...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
2004
Charles D. Laughlin
5 citations
Most traditional art forms around the planet are an expression of the spiritual dimension of a culture’s cosmology and the spiritual experiences of individuals. Religious art and iconography often reveal the hidden aspects of spirit as glimpsed through the filter of cultural significance. Moreover, traditional art, although often highly abstract, may actually describe sensory experiences...
2004
S. Wendel
[1] In his new bookGeburt in Gott, the phenomenologist and German translator of Michel Henry's work, Rolf Kühn, aims at no less than a combination of a transcendental phenomenology and mysticism into a new, non-onto-theological metaphysics. He describes his programme right at the beginning of the book. The pure appearance of God as self-revelation does not occur under alien conditions, but in...
Revue de l'histoire des religions
2004
Jonathan Garb
Lorsque les mystiques critiquent l'expérience mystique Les études existantes sur le mysticisme ont souligné la place tenue par l' "expérience" dans l'écriture et la pratique mystiques. Cependant, l'examen de textes issus de traditions mystiques differentes montre que plusieurs auteurs mystiques étaient réservés sur la poursuite de cette expérience. Le présent article examine les diverses...
Epilepsy & Behavior
December 2003
Michael H Cohen
Complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies include chiropractic, acupuncture and traditional Oriental medicine, massage therapy, and herbal remedies; mind-body therapies (such as meditative practices and visualization); and folk practices and religious healing. Of these, modalities based on spiritual healing create a number of conundrums for the clinician, including legal,...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 2003
Application of transcerebral, weak (1 microT) complex magnetic fields and mystical experiences: are they generated by field-induced dimethyltryptamine release from the pineal organ?