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Theology Today 1976 John Carmody
“Catholicism will again have an exciting, frontier theology if it probes non-Christian religious experience … from the still point of its own mystical tradition. … The experiential highpoints in non-Christian religious traditions, if engaged, would pressure Catholic theology to review, renew, and perhaps reform its own symbols mediating between numinous experience and confessional doctrine.”
The Psychology of Religion December 1, 1975 W. Proudfoot, P. Shaver
Recent anthropological and sociological studies have emphasized the cognitive functions of religion, but few have drawn on relevant work by cognitive social psychologists. One current social psychological approach, attribution theory, is especially promising for the study of religion because it deals directly with individuals' interpretations of their own experiences and behavior. Three lines...
Psychiatry February 1, 1975 J S Neki 17 citations
Sahaja is an Indian ideal of mental and spiritual health that has received special emphasis in the Sikh scriptures--especially, the Adi Granth. Since the concept of sahaja has long been associated with mystical thought and practice, its description has become shrouded in peculiar esoteric terminologies. It is the purpose of this communication to divest sahaja of its esoteric, mystic...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease September 1, 1974 G K Mills, K Campbell
Gellhorn and Kiely's attempt to generate a neurophysiological theory which accounts for the psychophysiological states produced during Zen and Yoga meditation is criticized because it: a) ignores fundamental differences within and between the various meditations; b) fails to consider certain important published evidence on Yoga meditation; and c) provides an ambiguous interpretation of...
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion March 1, 1974 Ralph W. Hood 63 citations
A measure of intense religious experience was related to measures of psychological strength in two studies. In the first study a significant negative correlation was found between intense religious experience and Barron's (1953) measure of ego-strength. However, this correlation was reduced to insignificance when the religion subscale was removed from Barron's total EgoStrength Scale. In the...
ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst 1974 Cora Annette Scott
A new dimension in the nature of man is coming into view in modern psychology.This dimension may be termed the Self .It is the central core, the deep source and foundation of the empirical self, the latter being comprised of constantly changing thoughts, emotions and physical states.The Self may be known and experienced through the transcendence of the normal state of consciousness to a higher...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease June 1, 1972 William F. Kiely, Ernst Gellhorn 150 citations
The relationship of the trophotropic and ergotropic systems of autonomic-somatic integration and their relevance to a variety of emotional states and levels of consciousness is reviewed. The importance of proprioceptive afferent feedback to the reticular formation and hypothalamus for the maintenance of ergotropic responsivity is indicated together with the beneficial clinical effects of...
1971 Kojiro Nakamura
Repeated utterance of a divine name or a sacred formula is a religious behavior commonly observed in many world religions. There are, to give a few examples, hesychasm of Eastern Orthodox Christian monks; dharani and mantra of Indian Yogis; dhikr of Sufi Muslims; nembutsu of Japanese Pure Land Buddhists. The Jews also have a similar practice in the tradition of Merkabah mysticism, and the Sikhs...
August 1, 1970 N. Simonsson
In the Sānkhyakārikās, the chief text of the dualistic Sānkhya philosophy, the world and salvation therefrom are described in compressed images as various stages of aesthetic situations. Purusa, the spiritual principle, whose only characteristic apart from being is consciousness, regards the spectacle which prakrti, primary substance, natura, gives. Existence is a theatrical show where that...
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 1970 Samuela Pagani
Between the end of the 8th/14th century and the beginning of the 9th/15th, the literate elites in Yemen and al-Andalus publicly debated the legitimacy and the educational function of Sufi books. In Yemen, where Ibn ʿArabī’s ‘school’ thrived, some jurists urged the ban of his books, while ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī and his associates extolled their educational virtue for Sufi novices. In al-Andalus,...