UCP Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences
December 20, 2024
Sobia Tahir, Miss Mehak Maqbool, Sidra Maqsood
Henry Bergson (1859-1941) and Mohammad Iqbal (1877-1938) wished to establish religious truth on firm grounds beyond any doubt. For this purpose, both relied heavily on Religious or Mystical Experience, which is direct and doubt-free. However, the next and most important question is: What does the mystic achieve from this experience? The answer is “Knowledge”--- but what is the nature of this...
GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites
December 20, 2024
Miguel Angel Ruiz-Palacios, Cristiana Pereira-Teixeira-De-Oliveira, Miguel Angel Tejada-García et al.
3 citations
This study explored cultural tourist experiences of Andean rituals on Peru's northern coast using ethnographic methods. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 65 participants, field notes, and observations of interactions among shamans, patients, and lagoons. Findings show tourists seek authentic cultural experiences, spiritual healing, and personal fulfilment. Shamans act...
IntechOpen eBooks
December 13, 2024
Amir Freimann, Aviva Berkovich-Ohana
This paper explores the concept of enlightened joy and love as an aspect of a stable and enduring spiritual “high plateau” state, referred to here as “Living Transcendence,” which contrasts with transient mystical or spiritual “peak” experiences. Drawing from a phenomenological study of 32 “spiritual exemplars” from various traditions, the research identifies key characteristics of this state....
Renaissance and Reformation
December 9, 2024
Samuel J. Dubbelman, Erin Risch Zoutendam
1 citation
This article contributes to the study of Christian mysticism in the sixteenth century by providing translations of mystical terms from Johannes Altenstaig’s Vocabularius theologiae (1517), including extasis, devotio, contemplatio, meditatio, mysticum, orare/oratio, raptus, theologia mystica, and unio. The introduction offers an overview of Altenstaig’s biography and the theological dictionary...
Performance Research
November 16, 2024
Augusto Corrieri
The act of dying can be seen as somewhat ‘irreal’, as Maurice Blanchot wrote, especially so when it occurs in the context of a magic show. In different ways, the performance of magic plays with the levels of reality of theatre itself, whilst at times conjuring the possibility of an afterlife, and communing with the dead. The essay explores the question of theatre and dying by examining UK...
November 1, 2024
Marina Christodoulou
In this next chapter, three foundational principles are addressed that can be found both in esotericism and in classical philosophy: connection, aspiration, and questioning. Conceptions such as oneness, the Absolute, or simply God, have been foundational for philosophy and esotericism alike, and behind these conceptions there has been a similar ideal of connectedness. Both esotericism and...
Religions
September 27, 2024
Davide Tramarin
Much scholarly attention has been paid to The Visitation group housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The sculpture, dated between 1310 and 1320 and attributed to Master Heinrich of Constance, comes from the Dominican convent of St. Katherinental, in present-day Switzerland, and is notable for its two rock crystal cabochons embedded in the wombs of the Virgin Mary and Elizabeth. In this...
Religions
September 27, 2024
Alexander E. Massad
Gamification is a specific type of experiential learning theory (ELT) that emphasizes student choice and activities to transform mundane tasks into a desirable opportunity to learn. This pedagogical approach is particularly useful in information-heavy courses, such as courses that engage in the study of religious mysticism or “hagiology”. In hagiology classes, students are exposed to new...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
August 16, 2024
Bonnie Glass‐coffin
1 citation
Christ Returns from the Jungle is an anthropological inquiry into the recent expansion from South America to Europe of the ayahuasca-based Santo Daime New Religious Movement (NRM).In it, the author addresses important research questions that could be used as a model for the study of all globalizing NRM's.These include the following: Who are the Europeans that choose to join this movement and...
Philosophical Psychology
August 14, 2024
Jussi Jylkkä
8 citations
Psychedelics can facilitate mystical-type insights and beliefs, such as the belief that the fundamental nature of reality is loving consciousness. These belief changes could underlie the positive effects of psychedelics on wellbeing. However, mystical-type beliefs have been criticized of being delusional, as they contradict naturalism. Here I argue that naturalism is one metaphysical position...