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Psychedelic Epistemology: William James and the “Noetic Quality” of Mystical Experience
Religions, 2021 William James proposed in 1902 that states of mystical experience, central to his idea of religious experience, can be identified based on their ineffability and their noetic quality. The epistemological category of the noetic quality, modified by W.
Ron Cole-Turner
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Wainwright on Drug-induced Religious Experience [PDF]
پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2015 Conducting experiments and investigations, some researchers have tried to prove that mystical and religious experiences can be created through drug injection. W. J. Wainwright distinguishes between theistic and monistic mystical experiences.
Hossein Tousi
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Mystical Experience in “Boundary Situation” and Its Reflection in Mathnawi (A Case Study of the Anecdotes of Pir Changi and Moses and the Shepherd) [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2019 In recent studies, mysticism is divided into three realms: Mystical Experience, Mystical Practice, and Mystical Theory. There are conflicting opinions with regard to their precedence and antecedence.
Ghodrat Allah Taheri
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Connection 100—An Auto-Ethnography of My (Mystical) Connection Experiences
Religions, 2022 This paper provides an autoethnographic accounting and analysis of my own mystical experiences, called connection experiences in this paper. This account, which is structured around a description of my early experiences, attempts to weave together ...
Mike Sosteric
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Mystical Experience: Pathology, or Supernormality?
Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2017 In the contemporary humanities there is still a problem with the understanding of the great texts of Western Mysticism – the common interpretations oscillate between taking the mysticism as the pathology or as the supernormality.
Zofia Rosińska
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The Epistemic Status of Mystical Experience in Ibn ʻArabī’s Legal Reasoning
Religions, 2022 Arguably the most influential Sufi thinker in Islam, Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn ʻArabī (d. 638/1240), views revelatory knowledge and mystical experience, what he terms ‘spiritual unveiling’ (kashf), as a form of continuing divine revelation that is bequeathed to ...
Ismail Lala
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The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience [PDF]
, 2015 Most characterizations of mystical experience emphasize its private, esoteric, and non-sensory nature. Such an understanding is far removed from the original meaning of the term mystikos.
Bradshaw, David
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What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition [PDF]
, 2018 This paper highlights the corrective and complementary role that historically informed philosophy can play in contemporary discussions. What it takes for an experience to count as genuinely mystical has been the source of significant controversy; most ...
Van Dyke, Christina
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Mística y Alteridad. Una demanda para nuestro tiempo
Franciscanum, 2017 With the emergence of existential questions that arise amidst the complexity and diversity of comprehension and postures regarding the mystical human experience, the following article aims to deepen into the roots and components of the otherness and ...
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Jean Paul Sartre: The Mystical Atheist [PDF]
, 2009 Within Jean Paul Sartre’s atheistic program, he objected to Christian mysticism as a delusory desire for substantive being. I suggest that a Christian mystic might reply to Sartre’s attack by claiming that Sartre indeed grasps something right about the ...
Gellman, Jerome
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