Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2023 AbstractI propose that positive mood should not be among the criteria for determining when or if psychedelic experiences are mystical. My primary reasons are: 1) unlike rare proposed mystical criteria such as feelings of self-dissolution and time-transcendence, positive mood does not clearly separate mystical experiences from other emotionally powerful
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آداب الكوفة, 2021 Religious experience and mystical intuition are neither equal, nor synonym and on the other hand, they are not contradictory at all. With respect to structure and constitutions, they have common and different elements.
Amoo Rezaei Farhad
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RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN THE LIGHT OF DISCURSIVE LANGUAGE [PDF]
, 2011 This paper analyzes the possibility of discursive language as media for explaining religious as well as mystical experience and how discursive language has position in the experience.
Hawasi, Hawasi
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Toward an epistemology of mysticism: Knowing God as mystery [PDF]
, 2010 While some philosophers suggest that mystical experience may provide evidence for belief in God, skeptics doubt that there is adequate warrant for even accepting the claim of a mystical experience as evidence for anything, except perhaps for some kind of
Tobin, Theresa
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Mystical Theology of St. Simeon New Theologian [PDF]
, 2015 The article deals with the problem of the divine light in the mystical works of St Symeon the New Theologian in the context of the Eastern Christian ascetical tradition.
Volokolamsk, Metropolitan Hilarion of
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Analyzing the objectivity of intuitive experience in the geometry of religious knowledge’s Allameh Tabatabai and Fakhr Razi [PDF]
حکمت صدراییIntuition is one of the important aspects of the geometry of religious knowledge and one of the sources of acquiring knowledge. The question of objectivity of associate the mystical experience is one of the basic questions raised in this field.
masome salarirad
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Metaphor and Apophatic Discourse: Putting Sells in Dialogue with Lakoff and Johnson [PDF]
, 2012 In the book, Mystical Languages of Unsaying, Michael A. Sells presents a performative theory of apophatic discourse. His idea is that apophatic discourse functions as a semantic analogue to mystical experience through \"meaning events.\" Although he ...
Carroll, Thomas D.
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Relationship between Misaq, Mi'raj and love through Sufi experience [PDF]
Kom: Časopis za Religijske Nauke, 2015 In their mystical experience, which is the result of knowledge and love, Sufis were focused on updating of the two Qur'anic facts, Misaq and Mi'raj. Through these two spiritual facts they experienced most directly the act of the union with God.
Džilo Hasan
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn : mapping the spiritual experiences of Mole and Ratty onto a scientific analysis of mysticism [PDF]
, 2015 Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece, The wind in the willows, contains a classic description of a religious experience as Ratty and Mole come face-to-face with the Piper at the Gates of Dawn.
Francis, Leslie J.
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Exploring Processes and Dynamics of Mystical Contemplative Meditation: Some Christian-Buddhist Parallels in Relation to Transpersonal Theory [PDF]
, 2015 This paper explores Christian contemplative meditation, focusing on the prayer of Recollection as it is developed especially by Evelyn Underhill and St. Teresa of Avila. It outlines the practice and explores possible theoretical and therapeutic dynamics,
Stoeber, Michael
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