The Mystical Science Of The Soul

Author : Jessica A. Boon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442644281

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"Ultimately, I propose that considering internalization as embodiment is a critical methodological shift in understanding mystical methods in general, and especially for probing recollection mysticism in depth. The inner man as opposed to the outer man is a Pauline and Lutheran commonplace that is too frequently taken out of context, leading historians of the Renaissance in general, and of Spanish Renaissance religion in particular, to value references to internal (or mental) methods of spirituality as an improvement over external (or bodily) rituals. This book takes its cue from the recent 'cognitive turn' in medieval studies that complicates studies of the body in religion by focusing on the embodied aspects of cognition, claiming a continuum between body and soul rather than a hierarchy. I argue that medieval theories of cognition made the divorce of the body from the soul impossible for a Galenic doctor, even one who spoke of the body and the world with contempt, and by implication impossible for his Castilian audience. Without serious consideration of Laredo's reliance on an embodied soul rather than on a body-soul dualism, therefore, no proper assessment of the unitive stage of recogimiento ... can be made."--Introduction, p. 6-7.

Author : Robert Siblerud
Publisher : Scared Science Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : New Age movement
ISBN : 0966685628

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The Science of the Soul describes the nature and purpose of the soul, the most important aspect of a human. Age-old questions of life's purpose, why we are here, and human destiny are understood by understanding the soul. The books explains the involution (the Fall) and evolution of the soul, the concept of rebirth and destiny, the spiritual planes including Heaven and Hell, and the spiritual inhabitants and their hierarchy. The Science of the Soul examines the soul after death and the holographic science underlying spirit and matter.

Author : Casey Blood
Publisher : Renaissance Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 158063219X

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Science, Sense and Soul by Casey Blood Pdf

In a world of political and social turmoil, can science tell us anything helpful? Can we make practical use of mysticism-the essence of religion-with its promise of a higher spiritual truth? Is it true that physics and biological science are incompatible with religion? Or can they be fruitfully reconciled? In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Casey Blood shows how quantum physics does indeed explain the true nature of the physical universe. He tells us how neuroscientists can provide an understanding of the way the brain makes sense of our inner and outer worlds. He also shows that neuroscience, in conjunction with a basic knowledge of mysticism, can clarify how and why meditation techniques and other mystical practices work. Most satisfying of all, he paints a world picture in which quantum physics is no only compatible with mysticism but also gives us a deeper understanding of spiritual matters. For Dr. Blood, three diverse disciplines-quantum physics, neuroscience, and mysticism-rather than being in conflict, give a unified picture of human existence. Together they show that the spiritual world has an immense effect on what happens here and now. And they suggest that spiritual practices can enable society to match human aspirations. Though the subjects are profound, Science, Sense & Soul is written in a clear, uncomplicated, readable style. The three sections on physics, neuroscience, and mysticism are mini-courses in the basics of those fields of inquiry. These three strands are then interwoven into an intricate design that illuminates the structure of and reason for human existence.

Author : Jessica A. Boon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442699564

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The Mystical Science of the Soul by Jessica A. Boon Pdf

The Mystical Science of the Soul explores the unexamined influence of medieval discourses of science and spirituality on recogimiento, the unique Spanish genre of recollection mysticism that served as the driving force behind the principal developments in Golden Age mysticism. Building on recent research in medieval optics, physiology, and memory in relation to the devotional practices of the late Middle Ages, Jessica A. Boon probes the implications of an ‘embodied soul’ for the intellectual history of Spanish mysticism. Boon proposes a fundamental rereading of the key recogimiento text Subida del Monte Sión (1535/1538), which melds the traditionally distinct spiritual techniques of moral self-examination, Passion meditation, and negative theology into one cognitively adept path towards mystical union. She is also the first English-language scholar to treat the author of this influential work – the Renaissance physician Bernardino de Laredo, a pivotal figure in the transition from medieval to early modern spirituality on the Iberian peninsula and a source for Teresa of Avila’s mystical language.

Author : Paul Marshall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538124789

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The Shape of the Soul by Paul Marshall Pdf

“An essential read for any true seeker."—Eben Alexander, MD, Neurosurgeon, author of Proof of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe When Paul Marshall began to pay attention to his dreams, he could not have anticipated the transformative experience that would follow. A tremendous expansion of consciousness exposed the insignificance of his everyday self but also revealed unsuspected depths of mind and hinted at a deeper self that holds the universe within. In The Shape of the Soul, Marshall—now a mysticism scholar—draws on personal experiences, along with a wealth of religious, philosophical, and scientific ideas, to explore this deeper self, sometimes experienced in mystical and near-death states as spherical in form. Drawing inspiration from the philosophers Plotinus and Leibniz, Marshall takes mind to be more fundamental than matter and views the basic units of nature as perceptual beings. We ourselves are such beings, striving for fulfilment in a long evolutionary journey of soul-making. Bringing together mysticism, philosophy, biology, and even some physics, The Shape of the Soul offers a deeply integrated vision of the self and the universe. Addressing the mind–body problem, the origin of the world, evolution, reincarnation, suffering, and the nature of God, Marshall delivers what will surely prove an intellectual classic.

Author : Larry Dossey
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UVA:X004414828

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Recovering the Soul by Larry Dossey Pdf

Provides an alternative view of human consciousness--a theory of mind and being independent of matter, time and space.

Author : Titus Burckhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Alchemy
ISBN : 1887752110

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Alchemy by Titus Burckhardt Pdf

Spiritual attainment has frequently been described as a transformation whereby a human's leaden, dull nature is returned to its golden state. This wonderfully insightful volume introduces some of the metaphors useful for establishing attitudes required for the soul's advancement: trust, confidence, hope, and detachment. It is a reminder that when any substance or entity undergoes dissolution, it must eventually be resolved or re-crystalized in a new, possibly higher and more noble form.

Author : John Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : 9388733274

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A Treasury of Mystic Terms by John Davidson Pdf

Author : Robert E. Cox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594777561

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Creating the Soul Body by Robert E. Cox Pdf

Outlines the principles and mechanics of the soul body, the spiritual vehicle that enables individual consciousness to survive the body’s death • Shows that the ancient Vedic, Egyptian, Hebraic, and Pythagorean traditions shared and understood this spiritual practice • Reveals modern science as only now awakening to this ancient sacred science Ancient peoples the world over understood that individual consciousness is rooted in a universal field of consciousness and is therefore eternal, surviving the passing of the physical body. They engaged in spiritual practices to make that transition maximally auspicious. These practices can be described as a kind of alchemy, in which base elements are discarded and higher levels of consciousness are realized. The result is the creation of a vehicle, a soul body, that carries consciousness beyond physical death. These spiritual preparations are symbolized in the Vedic, Egyptian, and Hebraic traditions as a divine stairway or ladder, a step-by-step path of ascent in which the practitioner raises consciousness by degrees until it comes to rest in the bosom of the infinite, thereby becoming “immortal.” This spiritual process explains the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, for example, whose reincarnation is confirmed in infancy through physical and spiritual signs, indicating that the consciousness has been carried from one lifetime to the next. In Creating the Soul Body, Robert Cox maps the spiritual journey of consciousness behind this sacred science of immortality and reveals the practice of creating a soul body in detail. He also shows that this ancient spiritual science resembles advanced theories of modern science, such as wave and particle theory and the unified field theory, and reveals that modern science is only now awakening to this ancient science of “immortality.”

Author : Thomas H. Burgoyne
Publisher : Book Tree
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1585090514

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The Light of Egypt by Thomas H. Burgoyne Pdf

A guidebook for spiritual truth. According to the author, the methods used date back to ancient Egypt and Chaldea. Contains some of the most effective spiritual instruction ever used. The author was well-schooled in wisdom from around the world, often referring to Hermetic, Kabalistic, Theosophical, and Buddhist principles. The book is divided into two parts: The Science of the Soul and The Science of the Stars. Explores karma, immortality, reincarnation and the human soul, plus chapters on The Mysteries of Sex, The Realm of Spirit, Alchemy, Astrology and the Zodiac. Meant for slow and serious study, for those wishing to attain wisdom as opposed to knowledge.

Author : Michael A. Rapoport
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004540620

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Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders by Michael A. Rapoport Pdf

In Science of the Soul in Ibn Sīnā’s Pointers and Reminders, Michael A. Rapoport provides a philological study of Ibn Sīnā’s (d. 1037) scientific explanations for phenomena related to the human soul in his most challenging and influential philosophical summa.

Author : Sarah Rivett
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838709

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The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England by Sarah Rivett Pdf

The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of religious activity in colonial New England from the 1630s to the Great Awakening of the 1740s. In an unprecedented move, Puritan ministers from Thomas Shepard and John Eliot to Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards studied the human soul using the same systematic methods that philosophers applied to the study of nature. In particular, they considered the testimonies of tortured adolescent girls at the center of the Salem witch trials, Native American converts, and dying women as a source of material insight into the divine. Conversions and deathbed speeches were thus scrutinized for evidence of grace in a way that bridged the material and the spiritual, the visible and the invisible, the worldly and the divine. In this way, the "science of the soul" was as much a part of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century natural philosophy as it was part of post-Reformation theology. Rivett's account restores the unity of religion and science in the early modern world and highlights the role and importance of both to transatlantic circuits of knowledge formation.

Author : Amit Goswami
Publisher : Hampton Roads Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781612833248

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Physics of the Soul by Amit Goswami Pdf

"Dr. Amit Goswami is one of the most brilliant minds in the world of science. His insights into the relationship between physics and consciousness have deeply influenced by understanding, and I am deeply grateful to him. Physics of the Soul is both challenging and brilliant." —Deepak Chopra Quantum Physics and Spirituality Made Simple At last, science and the soul shake hands. Writing in a style that is both lucid and charming, mischievous and profound, Dr. Amit Goswami uses the language and concepts of quantum physics to explore and scientifically prove metaphysical theories of reincarnation and immortality. In Physics of the Soul, Goswami helps readers understand the perplexities of the quantum physics model of reality and the perennial beliefs of spiritual and religious traditions. He shows how they are not only compatible but also provide essential support for each other. The result is a deeply broadened, exciting, and enriched worldview that integrates mind and spirit into science.

Author : Dr. Michael H. Likey Ph.D. H.Dip.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781462061877

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The Science of the Soul by Dr. Michael H. Likey Ph.D. H.Dip. Pdf

The Science of the Soul presents Dr. Michael Likeys complete guide to pursuing and excelling at whatever task or goal you may chose. The potential of the human soul is limitless, and Dr. Likey provides all of the psychological, metaphysical, and practical tools at his disposal to enable anyone to access this inner power or potential, sometimes referred to as ones higher self. The wisdom offered in The Science of the Soul is designed not only for studying and for practicing, but also for integrating into ones everyday living. The ideas that Dr. Likey discusses have been tested over the years by many of the worlds greatest seers, teachers, authors, and coaches. Spiritual laws are merely metaphors for the natural laws; though unseen, that are always at work in the world around us. The Science of the Soul offers a path for a deeper connection and the transformation of the soul. Using the methods presented here, you can gain greater quality of life, deeper love, and inner peace, focused on your true life purposes.

Author : Geoffrey D. Falk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 1577331311

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The Science of the Soul by Geoffrey D. Falk Pdf

Numerous books have been published over the past few decades on the subject of the apparent similarities between Eastern philosophy and the ideas of the "New Physics." However, without exception, these writings have failed to address the real meaning of "As above, so below" that the macrocosm of the universe is mirrored in the microcosm of the human body, and that the archetypal patterns of structure on the causal and astral levels of reality have their lower reflections on the physical level of being. In The Science of the Soul, Geoffrey D. Falk corrects this significant oversight. Drawing equally from yogic, Buddhist, Christian and Taoist sources, Falk shows that it is only by considering the detailed structure of the cosmos and the microcosmos that we can understand both the unified message which the scriptures have tried to convey, and their precise relation to the physicists' understanding of the physical level of reality - in particular, the ideas of David Bohm and Itzhak Bentov. I endorse whole-heartedly the road you have traveled. Light is a - perhaps the - powerful entry point to Spirit, and you ring the changes on it well. It's a book I would like to have on my shelves to refer to. Huston Smith, Ph.D., author, The World's Religions Combines ... astutely some of the great wisdoms of the spiritual world with the emerging understanding of the physical universe. Dr. James Fadiman, Board of Editors, The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology As a heroic journey of the mind into the mysterious realm of consciousness and maya in a vehicle fitted with the wheels of modern science and powered by the engine of yoga, the book merits a close study. S. Srinivasachar, The Ramakrishna Institute