Faith and Philosophy
1988
Robert K. C. Forman, The Society Of Christian Philosophers
6 citations
Capitalizing on the constructivist approach developed by philosophers and psychologists, Steven Katz argues that mystical experience is in part constructed, shaped and colored by the concepts and beliefs which the mystic brings to it.Merits and problems of this constructivist account of mysticism are discussed.The approach is seen to be ill-suited to explain the novelties and surprises for...
Anthropology Today
December 1, 1987
Ian Patrick Flavin
9 citations
rest of the Frankfurt School, was reacting to the failure of Marxism during the First World War, then to the myth-laden symbolic power of Fascism. Disillusioned with mechanical Marxist views of history which proved to be too optimistic, Benjamin emphasized the importance of images and myth as fields of struggle in revolutionary practice. He wanted the left to enlist religion in its cause, to...
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...
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...
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."
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...