Results 41 to 50 of about 98,170 (254)

Does Mystical Experience Give Access to Reality?

open access: yesReligions, 2022
Mystical experiences can bring an overwhelming sense that deeper realities have been contacted or that the everyday world has been apprehended as it truly is.
Paul Marshall
doaj   +1 more source

Mystical Experience and Schizophrenia [PDF]

open access: yesSchizophrenia Bulletin, 1981
Autobiographical accounts of acute mystical experience and schizophrenia are compared in order to examine the similarities between the two states. The appearance of a powerful sense of noesis, heightening of perception, feelings of communion with the "divine," and exultation may be common to both.
openaire   +2 more sources

Constructive Memory in Truth‐Telling for Reconciliation

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Truth‐telling has, in diverse contexts, been conceptualised as a vehicle for achieving reconciliation following injustice. As a social and political phenomenon, it involves the communication of narratives grounded in episodic memory. Such narratives may fail to reproduce the details of past events and may even include details that were not ...
Alberto Guerrero‐Velázquez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of Mythological Allusion on the Expression of Mystical Experiences (Based on the Conference of the Birds of Attar) [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2020
In expressing his poems, the mystic uses a tool to induce his spiritual experiences to the audience more easily. One of these tools is myth. Accordingly, one can imagine that the illustrator tool - especially post-metaphors like “Myth” - has a ...
Tamanna Golbabaei   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toward an epistemology of mysticism: Knowing God as mystery [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

Integrating the Gestalt Model of Self With Psychedelic‐Assisted Psychotherapy

open access: yesThe Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This theoretical integration paper employs a conceptual analysis methodology to synthesize the Gestalt model of self‐as‐process with Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP). Unlike traditional psychedelic therapy models that defer therapeutic engagement to postsession integration, PSIP emphasizes an active, directive therapeutic
Travis R. Fox
wiley   +1 more source

Neurophenomenology and Neuroepistemology Approaches to Integrating Constructivist, Perennialist, and Universalist Perspectives on Mystical Experiences

open access: yesZygon
Differences among constructivist, perennialist, and universalist perspectives on mystical experiences are bridged with neurophenomenology and neuroepistemology perspectives that illustrate constructivist and deconditioning processes and universal innate ...
Michael James Winkelman
doaj   +2 more sources

Many Americans Mix Multiple Faiths [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Presents survey findings on Americans' religious practices such as types and frequency of services attended and types and prevalence of mystical experiences and beliefs.

core  

The Mystical Path of Total Abandonment to God in Jean-Pierre de Caussade and the Bhagavad-Gita [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
One of the creative tensions in Hinduism is the concept of God as Impersonal Absolute vs. the concept of God as Personal. In the Bhagavad-Gita (written c. 400-200 B.C.), the concept of God as personal, loving and compassionate is emphasized.
Fastiggi, Robert L.
core   +2 more sources

Saplings of significance: Nurturing cultural value of new tree plantings through participatory opportunities

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Tree‐planting initiatives are a crucial part of international sustainability and climate action efforts. Yet, many of these initiatives fail to achieve their long‐term sustainability and climate goals. The role of community value is an often‐overlooked factor in promoting the success of new tree plantings.
Claire L. Narraway   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy