American Journal of Psychotherapy
July 1, 1991
J D Atwood, L Maltin
26 citations
This paper examined the multidisciplinary trends in modern society that have given rise to the notion of the interconnectedness of the universe. This idea constitutes a radical departure from the spirit of basic research in physics, which had always been bent on finding the fundamental constituents of nature. The new physics abandons not only the idea of fundamental building blocks of matter,...
Africa
1991
J. P. Kiernan
9 citations
Abstract One of the most conspicuous aspects of religious experience in Zulu Zionist Churches is the bright colours that are worn and otherwise employed. Surprisingly, this highly visible feature has attracted only passing attention from those who have studied these Churches; certainly no serious effort has been made to uncover the ritual significance of their colour symbolism. Against the...
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
1991
Paul Murray
1 citation
Basic lack of information concerning mysticism is perhaps one of the main reasons why Eliot’s mystical attitude, or his philosophy of mysticism, has not always been regarded by critics as fundamental to the inner composition of Four Quartets . The tendency in general is to imagine that a work of mystical literature — if it is really authentic — will be characterised by an intense...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
October 1, 1990
This preliminary research is the first to compare lucid, nightmare, and archetypal-mythological dreams on dimensions important in previous research on each. A first study of 100 subjects showed all three forms significantly correlated with each other and with estimates of dream recall. In a second study, 41 subjects were selected from the above on the basis of relative specialization in each...
Medical Anthropology
August 1, 1990
M L Lyon
18 citations
This paper concerns the notion of order and its role in the conceptualization of healing, and therefore its importance to healing itself. It proposes a model of healing in which order is central. The paper begins with an example drawn from Javanese mystical practices which are based upon the concept of the unity of the human and natural orders. The Javanese case provides a metaphor for an...
Dimensions of Mystical Experiences
June 1, 1990
R. Hood, R. J. Morris, P. Watson
In this research, 73 participants were categorized according to religious orientation (intrinsic, extrinsic, or indiscriminately pro) and were subjected to an isolation tank experience under one of two set conditions (religious or nonreligious). The experience was assessed by means of a modified mysticism scale with two factors: a minimal phenomenological experience factor (I) and a religious...
The Problem of Pure Consciousness
March 29, 1990
Norman Prigge, Gary E Kessler
Abstract The belief that mystical experience or that some especially important variety thereof is everywhere the same, regardless of the idiosyncracies of the individual mystic or of his or her cultural tradition, has been tacitly presupposed, dogmatically asserted, or explicitly argued for in much scholarly and popular literature on mysticism. All of this notwithstanding, Steven T. Katz, in a...
March 29, 1990
175 citations
Abstract This collection of essays challenges the widely accepted interpretation of mystical experience. It attempts to show that there is a single type of mystical experience that cuts across cultural and linguistic lines. This is the experience of `pure consciousness', a state in which the subject remains conscious but experiences neither thought, sensation, feeling, nor object of...
VCU Scholars Compass
1990
Zachary Grant Goodell
Within the last two decades, the United States has witnessed the growth of a phenomenon which the media has referred to as "The New Age Movement". This multi-faceted social pattern includes astrology, meditation, mysticism, and eastern philosophies, the popularity of which have increased significantly in the 1980's. This thesis is a case study of the "New Age Movement". First, I develop a...
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review
1990
Louis Roy
2 citations
WAiINWRIGHT, MARI'.rAIN, AND AQUINAS ON TRANSCENDENT EXPERIENCES1 Lours RoY, O.:P. Boston College Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts WHAT COULD ALLOW thoo1ogiianis to s1ay that rbrtanJScendent expmiences we, exiplicitly or implicitly, expenienoos of God? To ooswieir tMs question fully, one would ihavie Ibo ooga;ge in :two d:iisltmot mqumi1es. Fiirsit, religious , moml, iand psyoho101 giical...