Mysticism and mental health: A critical dialogue
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010 Contemporary research suggests that a path is now open for critical dialogue between mysticism and mental health. Data are accumulating regarding the frequency with which mystical experience occurs in the general population.
George Drazenovich, Celia Kourie
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Practice and the Comparative Study of Mysticism: \u3cem\u3eThe Yoga Sūtra\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eThe Cloud of Unknowing\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]
, 2016 In his entry for the term “mysticism” in the updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, Peter Moore writes that “the varieties of mystical practice tend to receive less scholarly attention than the varieties of experience or doctrine.”1 Bernard ...
Young, Glenn
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A Structural Analysis of the Light Symbol in Mystical Experiences [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2009 The ‘Light of God’ is the main sign and the key to understanding mystical texts. Sufis propounded important views about the ‘Light of God’ by their mystical experiences.
Abbas Ali Vafai, Bahman Nozhat
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The exploration of mystical experiences among religious preachers
INSPIRA, 2021 The current qualitative study aimed to explore the mystical experiences among religious preachers. A purposive sampling technique was employed to select a sample of (n=10) religious preachers who had encountered at least one mystical experience.
Rida Irfan, Ayesha Aziz
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The Second-Person Perspective in the Preface of Nicholas of Cusa’s De Visione Dei [PDF]
, 2013 In De visione Dei’s preface, a multidimensional, embodied experience of the second-person perspective becomes the medium by which Nicholas of Cusa’s audience, the benedictine brothers of Tegernsee, receive answers to questions regarding whether and in ...
Hollingsworth, Andrea
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Metaphors as Knowledge in Mystical Writings
Religions, 2023 Writers anchored in the Christian mystical tradition generally present their spiritual experience as loaded with cognitive content bearing on things divine. The nature of this mystical knowledge, the way they receive it, and its effect on their existence
Cécile Xie
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Quest religious orientation among church leaders in Australia : a function of psychological predisposition or openness to mystical experience? [PDF]
, 2019 Quest-religious orientation among church leaders signifies a style of leadership committed to religious explorations more than to religious certainties.
Francis, Leslie J. +2 more
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MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE AND MYSTICAL PRACTICES IN THE TESTIMONIES OF RUSSIAN ROSICRUCIANS OF THE XVIII–XIX CENTURIES [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2013 In the article diff erent forms of mystical experience in the XVIIIth–XIXth centuries Russia are reconstructed on the basis of the sources from Rosicrucian funds of DMS RSL.
Yury Khalturin
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Analysis of Roozbehan's mystical language based on tensive square model [PDF]
نثرپژوهی ادب فارسی, 2020 One of the important aspects of Roozbehan, one of the mystics of the sixth century AH, is the reflection of the mystical experiences in his works. An analysis of his specific mystical language is possible using the tensive square model.
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“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings [PDF]
, 2013 The mutual influences of the medieval discourse of courtly love and the literary visions of divine love have long been recognized by readers of medieval lyrical poetry and devotional writings.
Witalisz, Władysław
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