Screens of ambiguity in the shades of meaning of Maghalate Shams [PDF]
Since mysticism incorporates the intuitive experiences and perceptions of some mystics and utilizes a variety of tools and techniques to make them tangible and intangible, and on the other hand, is meaningful, it mainly involves multiple shades of ...
Hamid Taheri, Maryam Irandoust
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Lived religion and mystical experiences
This article discusses and argues for a ‘new’ and inclusive umbrella concept for varieties of experiences that have been called, inter alia, religious, spiritual, existential, paranormal, extraordinary or inexplicable. The umbrella concept to be explored
Katarina Johansson
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Exploring Processes and Dynamics of Mystical Contemplative Meditation: Some Christian-Buddhist Parallels in Relation to Transpersonal Theory [PDF]
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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Light Out of Plenitude: Towards an Epistemology of Mystical Inclusivism [PDF]
In this paper I argue that from the point of view of a theist, inclusivism with respect to the issue whether adherents of different religious traditions can have veridical experience of God (or Ultimate Reality) now, is more plausible than the Alstonian ...
Salamon, Janusz
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The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience [PDF]
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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“I cluppe and I cusse as I wood wore”: Erotic Imagery in Middle English Mystical Writings [PDF]
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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Psychedelic Drugs and Epistemological Validity of Mystical Experiences [PDF]
The emergence of mystical (quasi-mystical) experiences following the consumption of psychedelic drugs (hallucinogens) is one of those important proofs for their claimants to demolish epistemological validity of mystical experiences (mystical unveilings).
Ali Shirvani
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The Tawatur in Mystical Experiences; Formulation and Challenges [PDF]
One proposed solution to address the validity of mystical experiences for non-mystics is to emphasize their frequency (tawatur). This approach suggests that certain mystical claims can be considered valid due to multiple reports from different mystics ...
Ahmad Ebrahimzadeh +1 more
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Mystical Experience from Religious Community of Qadiriyah wa Naqsyabandiyah Dawe Kudus
The research aimed to know: 1. Ahwal (mystical experience) experienced by followers of Tarekat Qadiriyah wa Naqsyabandiyah in Piji, Dawe, Kudus; 2. The correlation between suluk and their kinds of ahwal; and 3.
Atika Ulfia Adlina
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The challenge of the oceanic feeling: Romain Rolland’s mystical critique of psychoanalysis and his call for a ‘new science of the mind’ [PDF]
In a letter written in 1927, the French writer Romain Rolland asked Sigmund Freud to analyse the “oceanic feeling,” a religious feeling of oneness with the entire universe.
Maharaj, Ayon
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