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Research

Religiosity and personality: are mystics introverted, neurotic, or psychotic?

The British journal of social psychology December 1987 D Caird

One hundred and fifteen subjects completed Hood's M scale, a measure of reported mystical experience, and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, which measures introversion/extraversion, neuroticism, psychoticism, and a lie score. No significant correlations were found between mysticism and the scales of the EPQ, nor could mysticism be predicted by multiple regression, either by the EPQ scales...

The butterfly and the serpent: culture, psychopathology and biomedicine.

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry September 1, 1987 R Littlewood, M Lipsedge

Cultural explanations of psychopathology in the West have rarely employed models derived by anthropologists for small-scale non-literate communities. Some general features of those ritual patterns usually classed as 'culture-bound syndromes' are applicable to Western neurosis. Such reactions articulate both personal predicament and public concerns, usually core structural oppositions between...

Figures of Transcendence in Whitman's Poetry

Walt Whitman Quarterly Review July 1, 1987 Carmine Sarracino 2 citations

Employing ideas from the Upanishads, explores Whitman's mysticism in relation to themes of "song and silence" described in early notebooks; argues for a serious understanding of Whitman's "experiences of expanded awareness" in order to "shed light on his desire for simplicity, and at the same time disclose the depth and profundity of those experiences."

The Deified Self

Journal of Humanistic Psychology April 1, 1987 Kirk J. Schneider

This article is an existential-phenomenological ("centaur level") 1 response to Ken Wilber's concept of deified or ultimate consciousness. Ultimate consciousness, according to Wilber, is the supreme expression of human awareness. It is the point at which highly developed people (i.e., mystics) totally transcend space and time, and are aware (at once) of all perspectives in the universe. Three...

NISHITANI'S BUDDHIST RESPONSE TO “NIHILISM”

Journal of the American Academy of Religion 1987 Stephen Phillips 4 citations

Keiji Nishitani presents a Buddhist philosophy that at once speaks from Buddhist religious and expresses a sensibility. It is his defense of the that above all qualifies his philosophy as Buddhist. Nishitani is a Buddhist thinker not so much in drawing on the rich history of classical Buddhist philosophy as in drawing on his sense of the value of Buddhist meditation (zazen in Japanese) and...

Religious Experience by Wayne Proudfoot

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 1987 Hugo A. Maynell

:QOOK ·REVIP/WS 198 Nagel emerges from the pages of his book as a philosopher whom, even when we disagree with him, we can still admire. St.John's University Jamaica, New York ROBERT E. LAUDER Religious Experience. By WAYNE PROUDFOOT. Berkeley and .Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. xix + 263. For the last two centuries, religious experience has been a central concern of...

The darkness of God: An account of lasting mystical consciousness resulting from an NDE

Journal of Near-Death Studies 1987 J. Wren-Lewis

Article describing the author's near-death experience (NDE) in 1983 as a result of poisoning. Almost every feature of the experience has been antithetical to the author's prior background, both in childhood and in adult life, thereby providing evidence against reductionist explanations of NDE. An account is given of how the new consciousness is affected by various life-circumstances, and of its...

The Technology Of The Præternatural : An Operational Analysis and Empirical Study of the Psycho-Phenomenology of Mystical, Visionary and Remote Perception Experiences

1987 P. Nelson 1 citation

In Part I of this thesis, mystical experience is defined in terms of some of the classical philosophical and psychological issues which surround it. It is also connected to the general class of the ‘praeternatural’ which is defined operationally as those visionary and remote perception experiences which have a quality of ‘supernaturalness’ as defined by Hultkrantz. The psycho-phenomenology of...

Inner Road Maps of the Psyche: An Interview with Robert L. Hutchins

Appalachian heritage March 1, 1986 Gurney Norman 1 citation

© JACK TALES Inner o* WieP ^n M1]HVWl -VcVi JVaìACTKVÌ Gurney Norman and Robert Hutchins request that you read the two reprinted folk tales and the tape transcription of Marshall Ward's version of one of the reprints, before you read their interview. 27 INNER ROAD MAPS OF THE PSYCHE An Interview with Robert L. Hutchins by Gurney Norman Robert Hutchins has recently completed his doctoral studies...