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Christian Mystics Doing at a Mosque?

08/11/2013 16:46
Kemal Argon Over the last 20 years I have been inspired to ponder the benevolent potential of interfaith work when I have seen mystically oriented Christians and Muslims successfully dialoguing to show their goodwill. For those interested in spirituality, interfaith encounter and dialogue between...

Mysticism and Maritain

08/11/2013 16:42
Our detailed examination of Maritain's thoughts on the three contemplations has led us to an unexpected discovery of great significance. The deeper we probed, the more we saw how seemingly disparate strands of Maritain's work converged towards the idea of the spiritual unconscious. It is out of the...

Vedic Science & Mysticism

08/11/2013 16:39
By Tina Sadhwani When one looks at the immense sea of knowledge that has come down to us from the Vedic civilization one cannot help but feel overwhelmed at the timeless grandeur and depth of such wisdom. Wisdom that has not only cast its eternal light upon the earth but wisdom that has laid the...

Christian Mysticism

08/11/2013 16:37
John Farrelly For Christians, mysticism is understood best through a study of those men and women who are very widely acknowledged to be Christian mystics. This list certainly includes saints and others, such as Gregory of Nyssa (d. 395), Augustine (d. 430), Bernard of Clairvaux (d. 1153), Meister...

‘Mysticism’ in quantum mechanics

08/11/2013 16:30
Juan Miguel Marin This paper argues that a European controversy over a ‘mystical’ hypothesis,one assigning the mind a role to play at the material level of reality, shaped much of the debate over the interpretation of the quantum equations. It traces back the controversy to the past two decades,...

Mysticism

08/11/2013 16:27
A mystic is a person who claims an immediate experience of the divine, and mysticism embraces that realm of human experience of the transcendent that is beyond religious dogma, ritual, and law. Apocalypse as a textual genre typically represents supernatural visions that have occurred to the mystic....

Sufism: The Mystic Soul of Islam

08/11/2013 16:24
M.S. Srinivasan We are now brought to an important and problematic subject: the relation between the mystic and the traditional religion, and in our case, between Sufism and traditional Islam.  Let us first examine the more general problem before coming to the specific problem of Sufism...

What Is Jewish Meditation?

08/11/2013 16:16
by Mark Elber There are two Hebrew words that are primarily used to refer to the act of meditation. The first word is hitbodedut, and the second word is hitbonenut. Hitbodedut literally means “being alone with oneself” and is used throughout Kabbalistic literature. Hitbonenut comes from the word...

Why Mysticism Matters

08/11/2013 16:02
by Andrew Cohen Have you ever had a mystical experience? Wikipedia defines “mysticism” as “the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, or levels of being, or aspects of reality, beyond normal human perception, including experience of and even...

Mystic Powers – A real goal?

08/11/2013 15:59
by Swami Bhakti Aloka Paramadvaiti Yoga means union, union with God, with the truth, with perfection. Yoga means to enter in contact with Him, to purify oneself by getting out of ignorance. It is this that is important in life. But you also hear that there are yogis who have...
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