December 1, 2002
Ingrid H. Shafer
Two theme–setting quotations introduce this essay—that of Yeats's falcon, deaf to the falconer's call, adrift in space above the blood–dimmed tide, counterpoised to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's call to abandon old nationalistic prejudices and build the earth. With primary references to the thought of Teilhard, along with, among others, to Ewert Cousins, Andrew M. Greeley, Karl Jaspers, Marshall...
The antipodes Of the mind
November 7, 2002
Benny Shanon
Abstract: There is a story, which I have read somewhere, to the effect that Mohammed once compared a scholar or philosopher who writes about mysticism without having had any mystical experience to a donkey carrying a load of books.
Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine
October 1, 2002
Marek H Dominiczak
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This article focuses on the work of William Blake (1757-1827), British artist, poet and engraver. Blake is discussed as a thinker opposed to the 'tyranny of reason' interpreted as rational philosophies promoted with a religious zeal. The visionary, mystical character of some of Blake's works is contrasted with his eclectic reading and sharp social criticism. Blake's work is related to the early...
Parergon
July 1, 2002
Cheryl Taylor
A devotional milieu shared by Walter Hilton and the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing was the probable basis of intertextual exchanges which took place in the early 1390s in major works by each writer. The article considers how this dialogue contributes to the climactic rendition of Hilton's spiritual attainment in Scale 2 . Early chapters are uninfluenced by the Cloud texts and...
Consciousness and Cognition
June 1, 2002
Wim Van de Grind
The conclusions drawn by Benjamin Libet from his work with colleagues on the timing of somatosensorial conscious experiences has met with a lot of praise and criticism. In this issue we find three examples of the latter. Here I attempt to place the divide between the two opponent camps in a broader perspective by analyzing the question of the relation between physical timing, neural timing, and...
European Psychiatry
May 1, 2002
Farāmarz Sohrābi
Ibogaine is a plant-derived alkaloid and dissociative psychedelic that demonstrates anti-addictive properties with several substances of abuse, including alcohol. 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a naturally occurring psychedelic known to occasion potent mystical-type experiences and also demonstrates anti-addictive properties. The potential therapeutic effects of both compounds...
Routledge eBooks
January 4, 2002
Lionel Corbett
The religious literature recognizes that spiritual experience may occur in at least two ways. It may be acquired by human effort, or an experience of the divine may be directly instilled into the soul passively, without human effort, as an act of grace. The hard work of everyday attention to, and amplification of, intrapsychic material belongs to the former category, while sudden, unforeseen...
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
2002
Roy Frederick Baumeister, Julie Juola Exline
25 citations
(2002). Mystical Self Loss: A Challenge for Psychological Theory. The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 15-20.
Critical Survey
2002
Antony Rowland
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An ontological need persisted in the writing of Ted Hughes, and continues in critical responses to it. This has manifested itself in various forms: Leonard Scijay detects a ‘mystical consciousness of the oneness of Creation’; in his recent book The Laughter of Foxes: A Study of Ted Hughes, Keith Sagar eulogises the ‘inner being’ of the poet. Although different, these descriptions share a vague...
Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
2002
Louise Sundararajan
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A hallmark of Christian mysticism is negative theology, which refers to the school of thought that gives prominence to negation in reference to God. By denying the possibility to name God, negative theology cuts at the very root of our cognitive makeup—the human impulse to name and put things into categories—and thereby situates us “halfway between a ‘no longer’ and a ‘not yet’” (Iser, 1978, p....