2017
Thomas K. Mooney, Morgan Shipley
Book Review| January 01 2017 Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in Postwar America. Morgan Shipley. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2015; 294 pages. $95.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1498509091. Wesley G. Phelps Wesley G....
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
2017
Minlib Dallh
Reviewed by: Reforming the Monastery: Protestant Theologies of the Religious Life by Greg Peters, and: Mysticism and the Spiritual Quest: A Crosscultural Anthology ed. by Phyllis Zagano minlib dallh Greg Peters, Reforming the Monastery: Protestant Theologies of the Religious Life. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2014. Pp. 178. $22.00, paper. Mysticism and the Spiritual Quest: A Crosscultural...
Journal of Medical Humanities
December 1, 2016
Bradley Lewis
Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) are rapidly emerging in health care settings for their role in reducing stress and improving physical and mental health. In such settings, the religious roots and affiliations of MBIs are downplayed, and the possibilities for developing spiritual, even mystical, states of consciousness are minimized. This article helps rebalance this trend by using the...
International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature
November 19, 2016
Swati Samantaray
2 citations
Cosmic mysticism is an immediate experience of oneness with God by means of ecstatic and wordless contemplation. The Indian Renaissance poets Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo are spiritual humanists who believe that the entire creation is pervaded by the presence of God. Their exceptional minds have an instinctive urge to synthesize and transform, transmute and transcend the aspects of...
Otrante.
November 1, 2016
Lucien d’Azay
Un être humain est toujours extrêmement en dessous de ce qu'il pourrait être.-HENRI MICHAUX 1 .L 'homme ne saurait se passer de transcendance.Mais depuis que Nietzsche a annoncé la mort de Dieu, une grande partie de l'humanité semble désorientée, en quête d'un substitut qui la console et l'apaise.Les poètes ou les artistes, qu'ils soient ou non athées, ont substitué à ce besoin métaphysique une...
Oxford Handbooks Online
October 5, 2016
Ralph W. Hood
The shift from negative evaluations of hypo-egoicism to more positive considerations is a shared interest of both the positive psychologist and the psychologist of religion. This chapter suggests that the possible positive benefits of hypo-egoicism associated with experiences of transcendence may be interpreted as vertical (more common in psychology of religion) or horizontal (more common in...
Assessment of Mental Health, Religion and Culture
September 13, 2016
R. E. Sears, R. Hood
ABSTRACT This study examines the responses of Nepali Christians and Hindus to the newly developed Dreaming Mysticism Scale (DMS). Factor breakdowns of the DMS for Christians and Hindus were basically identical, and together they and the factor breakdown of the combined sample suggest an interpretation–extraversion–interpretation typology that corresponds to the typical finding of studies...
Peter Lang eBooks
July 11, 2016
William Rowlandson
Borges have not focused on the writer’s close interest in mysticism and mystical texts, especially in the Swedish mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). This book examines the relationship between Borges’ own recorded mystical experiences and his appraisal of Swedenborg and other mystics. It asks the essential question of whether Borges was a mystic by analysing his writings, including short...
Pomegranate The International Journal of Pagan Studies
July 10, 2016
Melissa Harrington
Professor Arthur Versluis’ introduction to Western Esotericism provides a clear account of the historical antecedents of contemporary Western Esotericism, interweaving strands and transmission, and scholars who have illuminated this fascinating field. He engagingly explores millennia of history, theology and philosophy, magic, mysticism, esotericism, and the ground between, in a remarkably...
Consciousness and Cognition
July 1, 2016
Josef Parnas, Mads Gram Henriksen
128 citations
Mysticism and schizophrenia are different categories of human existence and experience. Nonetheless, they exhibit important phenomenological affinities, which, however, remain largely unaddressed. In this study, we explore structural analogies between key features of mysticism and major clinical-phenomenological aspects of the schizophrenia spectrum disorders-i.e. attitudes, the nature of...