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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Mystical Experience"”.
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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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Categories of Mystical Experience in The Voice of the Silence by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.
… classifying, and establishing the categories of mystical experience found in this book. Additionally, it aims to compare and contrast these categories with the four marks of religious experience established by James to determine if any new categories emerge. To achieve these objectives, the …
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Mystical experience as predictor of domains of religious and spiritual self identification: empirical and theoretical considerations
… as a measure of both spiritual and religious experience as well as to the development of new and underutilized theories such as horizontal transcendence and symbolic immortality theory (Hood, Hill, & Spilka, 2009; Goodenough, 2001; Lifton, 1969).
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The approach of the traditionalist school to the epistemological and ecumenical concerns of the mystical experience debate
… fact that numerous academic commentators on the mystical experience debate misrepresent the epistemological position of the traditionalist school; and this, through a confusion of the mystical experience with metaphysical intellection.
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Who's being transcended?: the role of belief of other as self in mediating the relationship between mystical experience and mental health
Throughout history humans have experienced instances where the boundary between self and other dissolved, and the ordinary sense of “I” was replaced with a unity to all of existence or a higher power. These are commonly referred to as mystical experiences, and although the relationship between …
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Intrapsychic correlates of transpersonal experiences in four creedal groups
Attributes associated with mystical experience among Christians, Buddhists, Jews and Pagans are explored in psychometric data presented in this thesis. Two such attributes in particular, the personality trait of psychoticism and attitudes held towards mysticism, are given focal attention. …
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Common core thesis and a qualitative and quantitative analysis of mysticism in Chinese Buddhist monks and nuns
… study explored the phenomenological structure of mystical experience among 139 Chinese Pure Land and Chan Buddhist monks and nuns. Semi-structured interviews, thematic coding, and statistical analyses identified Hood’s Mysticism Scale as a valid tool for studying mysticism across religions and …
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Velázquez: The Spanish Style and the Art of Devotion
… offers an account of counter-reformation mystical texts and <em>praxis</em> with art historical applicability to Spanish painting of the Seventeenth Century— particularly the work of Diego Velázquez. The consequences of considering devotional practice and mystical experience in the …
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The nature of Christian mysticism in the thought of Baron von Huegell and George Tyrrell
… They helped to retrieve the central concerns of mystical theology after a retreat from mysticism which had affected the Church since the condemnation of Quietism in 1699. Their account of Christian mysticism, which involved a critique of Buddhism, neo-Platonism and pantheism, rested on a …
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Madness as metaphor : a study of mysticism in the life and art of Emily Dickinson
… as a metaphor for the dark counterpoint of the mystical cycle.Chapter One establishes a necessary background on mysticism and discusses the effects of mystical experience on the mind and body of the mystic. As the mystic undergoes spiritual purification, she will be changed physiologically …
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A Rhetoric of mysticism
Research into mystical experience has to date relied primarily on retrospective self reports of mystical states. Analysis of such reports assumes a direct correspondence between their content and the content of the experiences. But experiencers themselves often express dissatisfaction with the …
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"Presentational Immediacy" in the Poetry of James Dickey
… to provide a verbal equivalent of an intense experience. He also defines the phrase in stating that his aim is to effect spontaneity and reader involvement in the experience of the poems. This is a relatively difficult objective to accomplish. However, as is shown in the study of the poems in …
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Surviving Modernity: Ashraf 'Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India
… and works of commentary on doctrine and ritual, mystical experience, communal identity, and political theology. His collected letters, recorded conversations, and sermons were published within his lifetime and continue to instruct many contemporary South Asian Muslims. I closely read Thanvi's …
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A arte como comunicação afetiva: experiência espiritual e a produção artística
… of human existence – having the spiritual experience as its main reference. The ponderations presented here result from observations which began 15 years ago, the last five years being the most significant. This work consists of researches paired with practical and theoretical studies which …
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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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Michael Tippett's Philosophy of Musical and Eschatological Time and Its Implications for Christian Theology
… Augustine, Tippett’s depiction of Christian mystical experience in the context of modernist musical techniques reconnects modernity to the Christian discourse by opening new hope in postmodernist music.
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Text and Intensification of Its Impact in Chishti Samā`
In my master’s thesis I analyse mystical Islamic poetry in ritualistic performance context, samā` , focusing on the poetry used by the Chishti Sufis. The work is based on both literary sources and ethnographic material collected in India. The central textual source is Surūd-i Rūhānī, a compilation …
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Nothing but the truth: the Sufi testament of 'Aziz Nasafi
… which includes sense perception, reason and mystical knowledge. Nasafi's presentation depicts all three in a hierarchical structure with Sufi knowledge at the pinnacle. Having discussed the theoretical nature of Sufism, chapter four deals with the practical element of Sufism and how it is …
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Diagnosing the Demonic: Reading Valerii Briusov’s Fiery Angel as Pathography
… diagnosed his and Petrovskaia’s quest for mystical experience as an encounter with demonomania, a medieval condition indicative of demonic possession that afflicted witch and saint alike and whose signs and symptoms corresponded to hysteria as defined by the fin de siècle. Briusov’s novel …
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Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere
… linguistic phenomena from the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera. Interior dialogues with the Other, whether framed as the voice of the Logos, an alien download, or communion with ancestors and spirits, are relatively common. Sentient …
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