Mysticism: all studies (page 39) - The Consciousness Library

Comparing Eckhartian and Zen Mysticism

Buddhist-Christian Studies 2015 Jijimon Alakkalam Joseph 1 citation

Comparing Eckhartian and Zen1 Mysticism2 Jijimon Alakkalam Joseph Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260–1328?), often referred to as “the man from whom God hid nothing,” is one of the great Christian theologians and philosophers of all time. But it is as a mystic that Eckhart is generally known. So any serious study of mysticism, in our times, cannot overlook this Dominican whose birth, childhood, and...

DOI: 10.1353/bcs.2015.0018

Epistemological dialogue with aspects of the Western discipline of the study of mysticism as it relates to Barhebraeus in conversation with al-Ghazālī on the question of the ‘Concept of God’ /

Center for International and Regional Studies 2015 Jennifer Griggs

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DOI: 10.25501/soas.00023669 Full text Mysticism Conversation Epistemology Theology +1

Psychedelic Mysticism

2015 Morgan Shipley 4 citations

Concerned with scholarly, popular, and religious backdrops that understand the connection between psychedelics and mystical experiences to be devoid of moral concerns and ethical dimensions—a position supported empirically by the rise of acid fascism and psychedelic cults by the late 1960s—Psychedelic Mysticism: Transforming Consciousness, Religious Experiences, and Voluntary Peasants in...

DOI: 10.5040/9781978726079 Mysticism Psychoanalysis Theology

Interiority and Connectivity: A Brief Comparative Study on the Relation of Scripture and Contemplation in Bridal Mysticism and Krishna Bhakti

Journal of Hindu-Christian studies November 7, 2014 Graham M. Schweig

In this study I bring two disparate traditions together which have painted portraits of divinity as a divine lover and supreme beloved. One tradition is from sixteenth century Europe and the other from sixteenth century India. My focus here is on the function of contemplative experience and vision in relation to the scriptural depictions and descriptions of divine love within both Carmelite...

DOI: 10.7825/2164-6279.1576

ENTHEOGENS, MYSTICISM, AND NEUROSCIENCE

Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science August 26, 2014 Ron Cole-Turner 11 citations

Entheogens or psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin are associated with mystical states of experience. Drug laws currently limit research, but important new work is under way at major biomedical research facilities showing that entheogens reliably occasion mystical experiences and thereby allow research into brain states during these experiences. Are...

DOI: 10.1111/zygo.12110 Mysticism Psilocybin Presupposition Epistemology +2

Suffering in the mystical traditions of Buddhism and Christianity

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies August 21, 2014 Jakub Urbaniak

This article seeks to explore the mystical approaches to suffering characteristic of both Buddhism and Christianity. Through the analysis of the meanings, the two traditions in question ascribe to suffering as a ‘component’ of mystical experience; it challenges the somewhat oversimplified understanding of the dichotomy ’sage-the-robot versus saint-the-sufferer’. Thus it contributes to the...

DOI: 10.4102/ hts.v70i1.2117

Implications and Consequences of Post-Modern Philosophy for Contemporary Transpersonal Studies III. Deleuze and Some Related Phenomenologies of Felt Meaning: Psychosis and Mysticism as Inherent “Structures of Thought”

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies July 1, 2014 Harry T. Hunt 2 citations

There is a surprising confluence in the philosopher Deleuze, the psychoanalyst Bion, and phenomenological psychologist Gendlin on what Deleuze terms the immediate "sense" of understanding and Gendlin calls "felt meaning."Beneath its more differentiated propositional articulations, all three understand this phenomenon as a felt sense of constantly shifting coherence and incoherence, and based in...

DOI: 10.24972/ijts.2014.33.2.16

Mysticism and The Notion of God in Nishida’s Philosophy of Religion

Philosophy East and West April 1, 2014 Andrea Leonardi

In Nishida Kitarō’s An Inquiry into the Good and The Logic of Locus and the Religious Worldview , written respectively at the beginning and at the end of his philosophical career, one can find remarkably similar references to mysticism which nevertheless give opposite evaluations of the phenomenon: while mysticism is highly praised in the former, it is disparaged in the latter. This essay is a...

DOI: 10.1353/pew.2014.0034

Ganhwaseon(看話禪), seen from the point of mysticism - Focusing on the Concept of ‘Religious Experience’ and ‘Religious Practices’

Journal of Seon Studies December 31, 2013 Hae-Young Seong

이 논문은 ‘종교체험(religious experience)’을 분석의 도구로 삼아 신비주의의 비교 연구(comparative study of mysticism) 관점에서 간화선을 분석한다. 간화선 전통이 속해 있는 선불교는 수행과 체험의 관계를 믿음이나 은총과 같은 개념에 의지하지 않고 이성에 호소해 설명하려는 대표적인 신비주의 전통이다. 수행 전통으로서의 간화선의 특징을 종교체험과 신비주의라는 개념을 활용해 분석하면 이 점이 훨씬 분명하게 드러난다.BR 비교의 관점에서 간화선은 여타 전통에 비해 다음과 같은 특성을 보인다. 첫째, 간화선은 인간 언어의 한계를 명확하게 인식하면서도 언어를 수행에 적극적으로 활용한다. 둘째, 간화선은 여타 전통보다 개인의 체험에 초점을 맞추는 철저한 경험주의와...

DOI: 10.22253/jkss.2013.12.36.323

Inter-Religious Contexts and Comparative Theology in the Thought of Evelyn Underhill: Symbolic Narratives of Mysticism and the Songs of Kabīr

Journal of Hindu-Christian studies November 19, 2013 Michael Stoeber 3 citations

Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) regards mysticism as the core of religion. All religions include various dimensions: scripture/ mythology, doctrine/ philosophy, ethics/ law, social/institutional features, ritual, material aspects, and personal and communal experience. For Underhill, personal religious experience inspires and influences the development of these other aspects of religion—the heart...

DOI: 10.7825/2164-6279.1550 Mysticism Narrative Mythology Spirituality +6

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