Psychometrika
March 1, 1961
Edwin G. Boring
21 citations
Certainly the most interesting tool that science employs in its perpetual pursuit of knowledge is the scientist, with his enthusiasms, egoisms, and prejudices, his inevitable unconscious attitudinal orientation in the consensus of contemporary opinion, which we call the Zeitgeist . One wonders what science would be like if automation could take over completely. Are there mechanical equivalents...
Life of the Spirit
September 1, 1959
James Harrison
BY contemplation here I am not referring to any merely natural operation of the intellect, however sublime it may be, but to an operation much more elusive, namely, supernatural contemplation, called also mysticism. It may be defined as an immediate or experimental knowledge of God. Our ordinary knowledge of God, of his existence and. of his nature, comes to us not immediately but only...
Archives of Neurology And Psychiatry
1956
Edward V. Evarts
52 citations
INTRODUCTION Bufotenine (5 -hydroxy -3 -[2- dimethyl-aminoethyl]-indole) is the N-dimethyl derivative of the vasoconstrictor substance serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine). It was first synthesized by Wieland in 1934. Raymond-Hamet found that intravenous injection of bufotenine caused transient elevation of blood pressure and apnea, followed by tachypnea, in anesthetized dogs.* To date, however,...
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
September 1, 1955
James E. Miller
Whitman's “Song of Myself” has long been considered a loosely organized, perhaps even chaotic poem which is held together, if at all, by his own robust personality. He himself may have contributed to this concept of the poem. Untitled when it appeared in the first edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855, it was called “Poem of Walt Whitman, an American” in the 1856 edition; “Walt Whitman” in the...
Life of the Spirit
November 1, 1952
John Corson
With the publication in America of the translation of Father Arintero's great work on Mystical Development in the life of the Church and of Dr Greenstock's work on Christian perfection (both from the Herder Book Company of St Louis) a very important and decisive stage in the journey towards the more realistic attitude to the study of mystical theology has been reached. Father Arintero died, a...
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
February 1, 1951
A. B. Affefi
71 citations
Students of Moslem philosophy and mysticism have often observed the highly eclectic character of that type of human thought. All Moslem speculation, philosophical and theological, no less than the Sūfī literature of the more theosophical kind, as represented for instance by Ibn ‘Arabī and Suhrawardī of Aleppo, displays this eclecticism. Yet no definite answer has been given to the question how...
Life of the Spirit
June 1, 1950
Conrad Pepler
Quite often the modem type of spirituality is partially condemned as subjective and introverted, as too self-conscious to be fully God-conscious. No doubt some truth lies in this accusation; for the whole renaissance and post-renaissance attitude of mind as exhibited in philosophy, science, theology, has been centred on human experience and the analysis of human life and values. Perhaps this...
Blackfriars :
May 1, 1950
Conrad Pepler
First of all I must apologise for borrowing the striking title from Professor Gilson without intending to present the same pattern in the matter of mystical experience as he presented in that of the philosophical. In Gilson’s deservedly famous work, the author traces the swing of the pendulum in the history of philosophy from the pure rationalism which is willing to admit ‘two truths’ rather...
January 2, 2027
Aleksandar Uskokov
Abstract: This study examines the relationship between language and liberation in early Advaita Vedānta, focusing on Śaṅkara (early eighth century ce) as a key figure. Challenging modern portrayals of Śaṅkara as a mystic, the work presents him as a “theologian of liberation” who argued that the liberation from embodiment as the highest human good (paraṁ śreyas) is attained not through ritual or...
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
December 1, 2026
Zia Khoshsirat
Abstract: This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured by economic exclusion. While historical...