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Author : Robert K. C. Forman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791441695
Challenges the prevailing view that mystical experience is shaped by language and culture and argues that mystical experience is a direct encounter with consciousness itself.
Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781773560045
Remaining a classic in its field, this book explains first how mysticism relates to such things as vitalism, theology psychology, symbolism and magic. This treatment may seem unusual for Christian mysticism, but it relates widely to the world as we know it and the different practices therein. Part Two explores the awakening, purification and illumination of yourself and gives solid groundwork for such things as voices, visions dreams and other mystical experience.
Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Plume
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : UOM:49015000499039
A study in the nature and development of man's spiritual consciousness. This book falls naturally into two parts; each of which is really complete in itself, though they are in a sense complementary to one another. The first is intended to provide an introduction to the general subject of mysticism; while the second part contains a somewhat detailed study of the nature and development of man's spiritual or mystical consciousness.
Author : Paul Marshall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191535468
Some experiences of the natural world bring a sense of unity, knowledge, self-transcendence, eternity, light, and love. This is the first detailed study of these intriguing phenomena. Paul Marshall explores the circumstances, characteristics, and after-effects of this important but relatively neglected type of mystical experience, and critiques explanations that range from the spiritual and metaphysical to the psychoanalytic, contextual, and neuropsychological. The theorists discussed include R. M. Bucke, Edward Carpenter, W. R. Inge, Evelyn Underhill, Rudolf Otto, Sigmund Freud, Aldous Huxley, R. C. Zaehner, W. T. Stace, Steven Katz, and Robert Forman, as well as contemporary neuroscientists. The book makes a significant contribution to current debates about the nature of mystical experience.
Author : Robert K. C. Forman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195355116
Are mystical experiences formed by the mystic's cultural background and concepts, as ""constructivists"" maintain, or do mystics sometimes transcend language, belief, and culturally conditioned expectations? Do mystical experiences differ throughout the various religious traditions, as""pluralists"" contend, or are they somehow ecumenical? The contributors to this collection scrutinize a common mystical experience, the ""pure consciousness event""--The experience of being awake but devoid of intentional content--in order to answer these questions. Through the use of historical Hindu, Buddhist,
Author : Jerome Kroll,Bernard Bachrach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134297672
A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over 1,400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this illuminating study examines the relationship between medieval mystical experiences, the religious practices of mortification; laceration of the flesh, sleep deprivation and extreme starvation, and how these actions produced altered states of consciousness and brain function in the heroic ascetics. Examining and disputing much contemporary writing about the political and gender motivations in the medieval quest for a closeness with God, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in medieval religion or the effects of self-injurious behaviour on the mind.
Author : Robert K. C. Forman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198022619
Are mystical experiences formed by the mystic's cultural background and concepts, as "constructivists" maintain, or do mystics sometimes transcend language, belief, and culturally conditioned expectations? Do mystical experiences differ throughout the various religious traditions, as "pluralists" contend, or are they somehow ecumenical? The contributors to this collection scrutinize a common mystical experience, the "pure consciousness event"--the experience of being awake but devoid of intentional content--in order to answer these questions. Through the use of historical Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, and Jewish mystical writings, as well as those of modern mystics, the contributors reveal the inconsistencies and inadequacies of current models, and make significant strides towards developing new models for the understanding of mystical phenomenon, in particular, and of human experience, in general.
Author : Robert K. C. Forman
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195116977
This book is the sequel to Robert Forman's well-received collection, The Problem of Pure Consciousness (Oxford, 1990). The essays in the earlier volume argued that some mystical experiences do not seem to be formed or shaped by the language system--a thesis that stands in sharp contradistinction to deconstruction in general and to the "constructivist" school of mysticism in particular, which holds that all mysticism is the product of a cultural and linguistic process. In The Innate Capacity, Forman and his colleagues put forward a hypothesis about the formative causes of these "pure consciousness" experiences. All of the contributors agree that mysticism is the result of an innate human capacity, rather than a learned, socially conditioned and constructive process. The innate capacity is understood in several different ways. Many perceive it as an expression of human consciousness per se, awareness itself. Some hold that consciousness should be understood as a built-in link to some hidden, transcendent aspect of the world, and that a mystical experience is the experience of that inherent connectedness. Another thesis that appears frequently is that mystics realize this innate capacity through a process of releasing the hold of the ego and the conceptual system. The contributors here look at mystical experience as it is manifested in a variety of religious and cultural settings, including Hindu Yoga, Buddhism, Sufism, and medieval Christianity. Taken together, the essays constitute an important contribution to the ongoing debate about the nature of human consciousness and mystical experience and its relation to the social and cultural contexts in which it appears.
Author : Evelyn Underhill
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0486422380
The work of a noted British authority on mysticism, it is divided into two parts: the first provides an introduction to the general subject of mysticism and its relation to metaphysics, psychology, theology, magic, and symbolism. The second and longer part contains a detailed study of the nature and development of spiritual or mystical consciousness, including such topics as the awakening of the self, the purification of the self, voices and visions, introversion, ecstasy and rapture, the dark night of the soul, and the unitive life. An interesting appendix provides a historical sketch of European mysticism from the beginning of the Christian era to the death of Blake.
Author : Daniel Goleman,Richard J. Davidson
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0891976485
Author : Randall Studstill
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047407218
The book supports an ecumenical theory of mysticism through a comparative analysis of Tibetan Dzogchen and German mysticism. Using a systems model of consciousness as an interpretive framework, it shows how the distinct doctrines and practices of these two traditions function in parallal, equally transformative ways.
Author : Andrew B. Newberg, Eugene G. D'Aquili
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Experience (Religion)
ISBN : 1451403747
How does the mind experience the sacred? What biological mechanisms are involved in mystical states and trances? Is there a neurological basis for patterns in comparative religions? Does religion have an evolutionary function? This pathbreaking work by two leading medical researchers explores the neurophysiology of religious experience. Building on an explanation of the basic structure of the brain, the authors focus on parts most relevant to human experience, emotion, and cognition. On this basis, they plot how the brain is involved in mystical experiences. Successive chapters apply this scheme to mythmaking, ritual and liturgy, meditation, near-death experiences, and theology itself. Anchored in such research, the authors also sketch the implications of their work for philosophy, science, theology, and the future of religion.
Author : Swami Sivananda Radha
Publisher : Timeless books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Light
ISBN : 1932018158
In Light and Vibration, Swami Sivananda Radha presents a living philosophy, an exciting exploration of higher consciousness that challenges spiritual preconceptions and stimulates deep reflection. Based on the understanding that the universe is made up of light and vibration, Swami Radha goes beyond the clothing of religious symbolism to help the student toward enlightenment. She explains how by opening the heart and exercising the mind, we can move beyond form, into more and more subtle realms of awareness. Light and Vibration is a reminder that we can all access the hidden place of the mind, a place where Light is always present. Swami Radha encourages seekers to undertake this exciting journey into the unknown. She offers us her knowledge of how light and sound can open us to the brilliant universe within. This book gathers Swami Radha's work from her final years, which expresses the culmination of her spiritual wisdom. She stretches the breadth of language to connect with the reader and to "explain the unexplainable."
Author : Carl Albrecht
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : Altered states of consciousness
ISBN : 0824599543
Carl Albrecht: Psychology of Mystical Consciousness is the first English translation of the ground-breaking study by the German medical doctor, psychotherapist and mystic Carl Albrecht (1902-1965), first published in 1951 as Psychologie des Mystischen Bewu tseins. The book, reprinted in Germany in 1976, 1990 and 2018, has remained untranslated to date and is now made available to international scholarship in an annotated English edition. The book offers the results of Albrecht's meticulous long-term empirical research into mystical consciousness. Albrecht's results are unique in that they derive from a pioneering methodological approach based on 'Autogenic Training', which enabled a practitioner to verbalize spontaneously what he/she is experiencing while immersed in an altered state of consciousness. These spontaneous utterances of mystical (and non-mystical) experience were concurrently recorded by Albrecht (supplemented by his own utterances recorded by a confidante) and provided him with invaluable empirical data for his detailed phenomenological analyses. The outcome was a most comprehensive, systematic psychological phenomenology of mystical consciousness informed by long-term empirical research, which is unique as regards authenticity, immediacy and scope. Unlike other empirical studies in this field, which are either based on records of mystical experience retrieved retrospectively, or derived from behaviorist research, or both, Albrecht's empirical data originate from immediate (not rationally mediated) verbal testimonies spoken by subjects while transported into a mystical state, in addition to records of great mystics from Eastern and Western mystical traditions. Psychology of Mystical Consciousness is now accessible to English-speaking scholars and scientists world-wide and will surely provide a new impetus to interdisciplinary enquiries into mysticism and the spiritual nature of man.
Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664642523
The Mystic Will is a spiritual book by Charles Godfrey Leland. It explains a method of inducing the mystic power of the human mind, to bring about desired conditions and miracles into your life.