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Showing 1 to 20 of 246 for “"Mystical"”.
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The Mystical in Canon Sheehan's Works
In an attempt to discover how much of the mystical can be traced in the life and writings of the late Canon Sheehan, it is reasonable and proper to put aside altogether those forms of mysticism which he as a priest and Catholic author would have been obliged in conscience to condemn. Mere psychic …
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Vision and imagination in Jewish mystical texts
The object of this essay is to critically analyse the historically accepted view of scholars and historians that Judaism is an auditory tradition and to affirm and verify a more modern view that a visual tradition has always existed within Judaism. The focus will be on two main types of the visual …
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Subjectivity, Passion, and Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing
… in order to outline the structure of the “mystical intuition” at the core of Greek thought in the tragic age.
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A. W. Tozer: A Mystical and Confessional Evangelical
… that while A. W. Tozer had a number of notable mystical tendencies, his spiritual insights are demonstrably within confessional evangelical boundaries. In other words, he drew deeply from the well of medieval Catholic mysticism but was, in the end, successful in maintaining his confessional …
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Mystical anxiety: American philosophy between Emerson and pragmatism
… in American intellectual history from the mystical passivity of Emerson to the intelligent social control envisioned by pragmatism.
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Mystical Soundscapes: Performance Guide to Rautavaara’s Etudes, Op. 42
This document examines Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Etudes, Op. 42 (1969) from a performance perspective. Although Rautavaara’s orchestral and choral works have received substantial scholarly and public attention, his solo piano music has received comparatively little performance-based study. As his …
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The Mystical Orientation of Virgina Woolf: Some General Comments
<p>This paper will be a modestly circumscribed one. I am going to examine Virginia Woolf's attitudes towards the mystery of transcendence, towards mysticism and towards death, first as she shows it in her own person through her diary and through a few comments of her husband and friends. Then, …
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Between silence and speech : mystical experience in contemporary women's writing
… Atwood and Janet Frame. Drawing upon a core mysticalproblem (the question of how to articulate the ineffable divine), women's mysticalexperience is seen as paradoxical and contradictory, with the female body and psychedivided between the two competing forces of silence and speech. The …
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Bhima's mystical quest as a Model of Javanese Spiritual Growth
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Meditation Techniques and Their Relationship to Psychotic-Like and Mystical Experiences
… were positively associated with PLEs and mystical experiences. In contrast, CDM techniques were negatively associated with PLEs and mystical experiences and positively associated with self-reported interoceptive awareness. I also found the reasons people meditate linked to PLEs, mystical …
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Interrogating Music-Historical Narratives Through Ralph Vaughan Williams's Five Mystical Songs
… be created. Such methods are applied to <em>Five Mystical Songs</em> (1911).</p>
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Kiai Sadrach Suropranoto (1835-1924) and the Javanese mystical Christian movement.
… spiritual journey began within the Javanese mystical tradition and later traversed Islamic Sufism before culminating in his conversion to Christianity. Working under the patronage of Mrs. Christina Stevens-Philips, a Dutch laywoman evangelist, Sadrach became one of the most successful native …
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The mystical theology of Peter Sterry : a study in neoplatonist Puritanism
Peter Sterry (1613-72) was a complex and fascinating man living amid tumultuous times. Largely neglected and ignored by historians and philosophers in the centuries since his death, Sterry nonetheless deserves attention as an impmtant member of the Cambridge Platonist movement, a key forerunner of …
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Let there be light: developing the mystical luminosity experience construct and scale
… or divine nature is widely described in various mystical and religious traditions, and light with mystical qualities is reported in many nonordinary experiences studied today, most notably near-death and mystical experiences. Despite its significance to contemporary experiencers and much of …
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Open Secret: Henry Corbin, Elliot Wolfson, and the Mystical Poetics of Deification
… and anthropological significance of the specific mystical category of deification via the “academic esotericism” (to borrow Jeffrey Kripal’s designation) of these two authors. The goal of undertaking such a dialogical study of each author’s treatment of deification is to journey toward a more …
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Receiving "The true name" : reading Lilith as a mystical dream-vision.
… unitive heart of the novel. Reading Lilith as a mystical dream-vision not only provides the reader an historical context with which to interpret the text, but also maintains the hope clearly evident in the novel's conclusion by recognizing the true anagogical sense and purpose of the dreams.
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… a slight valorization of spirit over matter in mystical union, perhaps already presaging the bifurcation of the sign in postmodernity. Meanwhile, the Eucharistic poetry of Aquinas, especially the sequence *Lauda Sion*, presents an intrinsic semiotics and ontology of union which integrates bodily …
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