Religious Studies
March 1, 1981
William C. Chittick
To say ‘mysticism versus philosophy’ in the context of Islamic civilization means something far different from what it has come to signify in the West, where many philosophers have looked upon mysticism as the abandonment of any attempt to reconcile religious data with intelligent thought. Certainly the Muslim mystics and philosophers sometimes display a certain mutual opposition and...
International Journal Middle East Studies
November 1, 1979
Khalil I. H. Semaan
1 citation
It is customary to view the mystic and his experience from at least three angles: the theological, the philosophical, and the psychological. To be sure, the mystical experience represents an extraordinary phenomenon of the highest psychological complexity. Mysticism, nowadays, in this age of Aquarius, many would dismiss as a sick or superstitious accident; on the other hand, those who are...
Religious Studies
June 1, 1978
James Kellenberger
10 citations
In recent years the issue of whether mysticism can be induced by drugs has been pursued by both scholars of mystical literature and psychological researchers. R. C. Zaehner is perhaps the best known among the scholars of religious literature who have addressed the issues of drug-induced mysticism. While on the side of empirical psychology investigators such as Walter N. Pahnke, R. E. L....
Journal of the history of philosophy
July 1, 1977
Daniel Cook
19 citations
James's "Ether Mysticism" and Hegel DANIEL J. COOK THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, James was a persistent critic of Hegel and Hegelianism . Very often he attacked Hegel with derision as well as earnest argument. One attitude that has been cited as evidence of James's light-hearted and cavalier treatment of Hegel concerns his comments on Hegel while under the influence of nitrous oxide (N20). In this paper...
Oriens
1976
Ernst Ludwig Dietrich, Alexander Altmann
86 citations
Introduction 1. Delphic Maxim in Medieval Islam and Judaism 2. The Ladder of Ascension 3. Ibn Bajja on Man's Ultimate Felicity 4. Essence and Existence in Maimonides 5. A Note on the Rabbinic Doctrine of Creation 6. Saadya's Theory of Revelation: It's Origin and Background 7. Eleazar of Worms' Symbol of the Merkabah 8. Motif of the Shells in Azriel of Gerona 9. Moses Narboni's Epistle on Shi ur...
Religious Studies
September 1, 1973
William J. Wainwright
14 citations
In this paper I propose to examine the cognitive status of mystical experience. There are, I think, (at least) three distinct but overlapping sorts of religious experience. (1) In the first place, there are two kinds of mystical experience. The extrovertive or nature mystic (in some sense) identifies himself with a world which is both transfigured and one. The introvertive mystic withdraws from...
Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion
1971
K. Rob V. Wikman
No abstract available
Journal of Psychedelic Drugs
September 1, 1970
Walter N. Pahnke, William A. Richards
43 citations
(1970). Implications Of LSD and Experimental Mysticism. Journal of Psychedelic Drugs: Vol. 3, LSD. The Psychedelic Experience and Beyond, pp. 92-108.
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
August 1, 1970
Hjalmar Sundén
2 citations
The study of mysticism must be carried on with more attention paid to the meditative techniques used by mystics and to the problems of perception. In this paper the author presents some remarks on the difference between Saint Teresa and Saint John of the Cross, and then mentions some recent studies of meditation and some problems of perception. If meditative techniques have become of great...
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures
March 1, 1968
Frederick C. Copleston
In the preface to his Philosophy of Right Hegel maintains that a philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought. It is not the philosopher's business to create an imaginary world of his own. His task is to understand the present and actual as subsuming the past in itself, as the culmination (up to date) of a process of development.