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Is Mystical Experience Everywhere the Same?
Sophia, 1982Abstract The belief that mystical experience or that some especially important variety thereof is everywhere the same, regardless of the idiosyncracies of the individual mystic or of his or her cultural tradition, has been tacitly presupposed, dogmatically asserted, or explicitly argued for in much scholarly and popular literature on ...
Gary E. Kessler, Norman Prigge
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Religious Studies, 1989
The definition of mysticism has shifted, in modern thinking, from a patristic emphasis on the objective content of experience to the modern emphasis on the subjective psychological states or feelings of the individual. Post Kantian Idealism and Romanticism was involved in this shift to a far larger extent than is usually recognized.
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The definition of mysticism has shifted, in modern thinking, from a patristic emphasis on the objective content of experience to the modern emphasis on the subjective psychological states or feelings of the individual. Post Kantian Idealism and Romanticism was involved in this shift to a far larger extent than is usually recognized.
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Near-death experience as mystical experience
Journal of Religion & Health, 1986Near-death experience exhibits many attributes of mystical awareness. Assessing the mystical quality of psychedelic experience, Walter Pahnke identified a nine-category typology of mystical experience. It is used here to illustrate the mystical nature of near-death experience.
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The Mystical Experience as a Suicide Preventive
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973Three suicidal adolescents suffering from schizophrenic reactions developed the ability to conjure up a mystical consciousness. Directly experiencing this "oceanic" state (or just its memory) provided the patients with a reliably soothing safeguard against their overwhelming loneliness and possible suicide.
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Age Differences in Mystical Experience
The Gerontologist, 1993Age differences are examined in reports of deja vu, ESP, clairvoyance, spiritualism, and numinous experience. According to the 1988 General Social Survey (N = 1481), these mystical experiences are somewhat more common now than in 1973, and deja vu, clairvoyance, and a composite mysticism score have increased with successively younger age cohorts ...
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Mystical Experience of a Counsellor
Women & Therapy, 1997This autobiographical enquiry explores, and describes the process and impact of mystical experience on the life of a counsellor in training. What is this experience like? How does it affect a counsellor trained in mainstream academia? What can happen when the secular and the sacred converge during a counselling session?
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Defining Mysticism: Identifying the Facets of a Mystical Experience
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012This work is an exploration into the world of mysticism and mystical experiences. Many of our religious traditions encounter the subject of mystical experiences, but are there certain underlying features that string them together? Using texts by authors who have had mystical experiences or describe them, this work is an investigation as to whether such
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