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Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah Jonathan Garb
ISBN: 978-0226282077 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: University Of Chicago Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьBringing to light a hidden chapter in the history of modern Judaism, "Shamanic Trance in Modern Kabbalah" explores the shamanic dimensions of Jewish mysticism. Jonathan Garb integrates methods and models from the social sciences, comparative religion, and Jewish studies to offer a fresh view of the early modern kabbalists and their social and psychological contexts. Through close readings of numerous texts - some translated here for the first time - Garb draws a more complete picture of the kabbalists than previous depictions, revealing them to be as concerned with deeper states of consciousness as they were with study and ritual. Garb…
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Mysticism: Experience, Response and Empowerment Jess Hollenback
ISBN: 978-0271030029 Год издания: 1996 Издательство: Pennsylvania State University Press Язык: Английский РазвернутьThis sweeping study of mysticism by Jess Hollenback considers the writings and experiences of a broad range of traditional religious mystics, including Teresa of Avila, Black Elk, and Gopi Krishna. It also makes use of a new category of sources that more traditional scholars have almost entirely ignored, namely, the autobiographies and writings of contemporary clairvoyants, mediums, and outof-body travelers. This study contributes to the current debate about the contextuality of mysticism by presenting evidence that not only are the mystic's interpretations of and responses to experiences culturally and historically conditioned, but…
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The Nature of Shamanism: Substance and Function of a Religious Metaphor Michael Ripinsky-Naxon
ISBN: 978-0791413869 Год издания: 1993 Издательство: State University of New York Press Язык: Английский The author explores the core and essence of shamanism by looking at its ritual, mythology, symbolism, and the dynamics of its cultural process. In dealing with the basic elements of shamanism, the author discusses the shamanistic experience and enlightenment, the inner personal crisis, and the many aspects entailed in the role of the shaman.
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Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred Jeffrey J. Kripal
ISBN: 978-0226453873 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: University Of Chicago Press РазвернутьMost scholars dismiss research into the paranormal as pseudoscience, a frivolous pursuit for the paranoid or gullible. Even historians of religion, whose work naturally attends to events beyond the realm of empirical science, have shown scant interest in the subject. But the history of psychical phenomena, Jeffrey J. Kripal contends, is an untapped source of insight into the sacred, and by tracing that history through the last two centuries of Western thought we can see its potential centrality to the critical study of religion. The cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the occult dimensions of…
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The Religion of the Heart Ted A. Campbell
ISBN: 978-1579104337 Год издания: 2000 Издательство: Wipf & Stock Pub This volume gathers together essays written by a number of distinguished scholars to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Frithjof Schuon, the man whose luminous message has touched their lives and the lives of many others on the deepest level both intellectually and spiritually.
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The Hidden Man of the Heart Archimandrite Zacharias
ISBN: 978-0980020717 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Mount Thabor Publishing РазвернутьThe Hidden Man of the Heart consists of a series of presentations on the place of the heart in the spiritual life of the Christian, with special reference to the Hesychast tradition of the Orthodox Church, including two of the most influential figures in contemporary Christianity: Saint Silouan the Athonite (1866–1938) and Elder Sophrony of Essex (1896–1993). Delivered in Wichita, Kansas at the 2007 Clergy Brotherhood Retreat of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church, each lecture (divided here into chapters) is published in full together with its corresponding Questions & Answers. The author is a disciple of the Elder Sophrony and a…
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For Love of the Imagination: Interdisciplinary Applications of Jungian Psychoanalysis Michael Vannoy Adams
ISBN: 978-0415644099 Год издания: 2013 Издательство: Routledge Развернуть"I have entitled this book For Love of the Imagination. Long ago, I fell in love with the imagination. It was love at first sight. I have had a lifelong love affair with the imagination. I would love for others, through this book, to fall in love, as I once did, with the imagination." Michael Vannoy Adams, from the Preface. For Love of the Imagination is a book about the imagination – about what and how images mean. Jungian psychoanalysis is an imaginal psychology – or what Michael Vannoy Adams calls "imaginology," the study of the imagination. What is so distinctive – and so valuable – about Jungian psychoanalysis is that it…
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La personnalité humaine : sa survivance et ses manifestations supranormales Frederic W. H. Myers
ISBN: 978-2911525322 Год издания: 2000 Издательство: Exergue Развернуть« Ces recherches, écrit Myers, devaient porter avant tout, comme toute recherche scientifique au sens strict du mot, sur des faits objectifs réellement observables et reposer sur des expériences que nous puissions répéter aujourd'hui, avec l'espoir de les dépasser demain. Il ne pouvait s'agir que de recherches basées, pour employer un terme ancien, sur l'hypothèse uniformiste, c'est-à-dire sur la proposition que, si un monde spirituel existe, et si ce monde a été, à une époque quelconque, susceptible de se manifester et d'être découvert, il doit en être de même de nos jours. » Frederic William Henry Myers (1843-1901) fonda en 1873, la…
