Author: Andrew B. Newberg, Eugene G. D'Aquili
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451403749
Category : Experience (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
The Mystical Mind
Author: Andrew B. Newberg, Eugene G. D'Aquili
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451403749
Category : Experience (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 9781451403749
Category : Experience (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.
The Mystic Mind
Author: Jerome Kroll
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113429767X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113429767X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Consciousness in the Mystical Experience
Author: Donald R. McGarry
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Mysticism of Johann Joseph Von Görres as a Reaction Against Rationalism
The Return to the Mystical
Author: Peter Tyler
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441104445
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441104445
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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The Mystic Will
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
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.
The Essentials of Mysticism and Other Essays
Author: Evelyn Underhill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Mystical Way
Author: William Johnston
Publisher: HarperOne
ISBN: 9780006276654
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Uniting the wisdom of Silent Music and The Wounded Stag, Johnston presents a synthesis of Eastern and Western religious insights with modern science. What results is a complete picture of meditation and how it affects consciousness, health, and intimacy. "A model of balanced thinking and lucid writing".--Kirkus Review.
Publisher: HarperOne
ISBN: 9780006276654
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Uniting the wisdom of Silent Music and The Wounded Stag, Johnston presents a synthesis of Eastern and Western religious insights with modern science. What results is a complete picture of meditation and how it affects consciousness, health, and intimacy. "A model of balanced thinking and lucid writing".--Kirkus Review.
The Mystic Experience
Author: Jordan Paper
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791484289
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The mystic, zero, or void experience—the ecstatic disappearance of self along with everything else—is considered by those who have had it to be the most beautiful, blissful, positive, profound, and significant experience of their lives. Offering both a descriptive and a comparative perspective, this book explores the mystic experience across cultures as both a human and cultural event. The book begins and ends with descriptions of the author's own mystical experiences, and looks at self-reported experiences by individuals who do not link their experiences to a religious tradition, to determine characteristics of this universal human experience. These characteristics are compared to statements of acknowledged mystics in diverse religious traditions. The mystic experience is also situated within other ecstatic religious experiences to distinguish it from similar, but distinct, experiences such as lucid dreams, shamanism, and mediumism. Jordan Paper goes on to look at how the mystic experience has been considered in various fields, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, biology, and comparative religious studies.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791484289
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The mystic, zero, or void experience—the ecstatic disappearance of self along with everything else—is considered by those who have had it to be the most beautiful, blissful, positive, profound, and significant experience of their lives. Offering both a descriptive and a comparative perspective, this book explores the mystic experience across cultures as both a human and cultural event. The book begins and ends with descriptions of the author's own mystical experiences, and looks at self-reported experiences by individuals who do not link their experiences to a religious tradition, to determine characteristics of this universal human experience. These characteristics are compared to statements of acknowledged mystics in diverse religious traditions. The mystic experience is also situated within other ecstatic religious experiences to distinguish it from similar, but distinct, experiences such as lucid dreams, shamanism, and mediumism. Jordan Paper goes on to look at how the mystic experience has been considered in various fields, such as sociology, psychology, anthropology, biology, and comparative religious studies.
Mysticism in Christianity
Author: William Kaye Fleming
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mysticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description