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Author : John Horgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rational Mysticism written by John Horgan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : John Horgan
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547347804
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Rational Mysticism written by John Horgan and published by HMH. This book was released on 2004-03-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The End of Science chronicles the most advanced research into such experiences as prayer, fasting, and trances in this “great read” (The Washington Post). How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences “work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation for religious mysteries and transcendent meditation? John Horgan investigates a wide range of fields—chemistry, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, theology, and more—to narrow the gap between reason and mystical phenomena. As both a seeker and an award-winning journalist, Horgan consulted a wide range of experts, including theologian Huston Smith, spiritual heir to Joseph Campbell; Andrew Newberg, the scientist whose quest for the “God module” was the focus of a Newsweek cover story; Ken Wilber, prominent transpersonal psychologist; Alexander Shulgin, legendary psychedelic drug chemist; and Susan Blackmore, Oxford-educated psychologist, parapsychology debunker, and Zen practitioner. Horgan explores the striking similarities between “mystical technologies” like sensory deprivation, prayer, fasting, trance, dancing, meditation, and drug trips. He participates in experiments that seek the neurological underpinnings of mystical experiences. And, finally, he recounts his own search for enlightenment—adventurous, poignant, and sometimes surprisingly comic. Horgan’s conclusions resonate with the controversial climax of The End of Science, because, as he argues, the most enlightened mystics and the most enlightened scientists end up in the same place—confronting the imponderable depth of the universe.
Author : Irving Block
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book G-d, Rationality, and Mysticism written by Irving Block and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is aimed at addressing two common misconceptions. The first is that belief in G-d is purely a matter of faith and cannot be supported by rational arguments. The second is that rationality is incompatible with mysticism. The section on relationship to mysticism draws on the literature of Chabad Hasidic philosophy and the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Special attention is devoted to near-death experiences.
Author : Natan Slifkin
Publisher : Gefen Books
ISBN 13 : 9789657023624
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Rationalism Vs. Mysticism written by Natan Slifkin and published by Gefen Books. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: KNOWLEDGE: Do we obtain reliable knowledge about the world from ongoing supernatural revelation, or from scientific investigation? NATURE: Is it preferable to perceive God as working through nature, or through supernatural miracles? SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES: Are we surrounded by all kinds of supernatural forces and entities, such as endless conscious angels, demons and the Evil Eye? MITZVOT: Do the commandments function solely to change our thoughts and behavior, or primarily to manipulate mystical forces? TORAH: Is Torah a Divine guide for life, or is it also a metaphysical blueprint for existence with all kinds of supernatural qualities? Rationalism vs. Mysticism is a thorough study of how these questions were answered very differently by various rabbinic scholars over history, reflecting two fundamentally different views of the nature of Judaism. It will profoundly deepen your understanding of Judaism and many of the intellectual conflicts that have arisen in Jewish history.
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Author : John Philips Potter
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Deliverance from evil; or, Rational mysticism explained and episcopal insincerity exposed [by J.P. Potter]. written by John Philips Potter and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Kingsland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258907082
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Rational Mysticism written by William Kingsland and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1924 edition.
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438461208
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Mysticism written by Richard H. Jones and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. Mystics claim to experience reality in a way not available in normal life, a claim which makes this phenomenon interesting from a philosophical perspective. Richard H. Jones's inquiry focuses on the skeleton of beliefs and values of mysticism: knowledge claims made about the nature of reality and of human beings; value claims about what is significant and what is ethical; and mystical goals and ways of life. Jones engages language, epistemology, metaphysics, science, and the philosophy of mind. Methodological issues in the study of mysticism are also addressed. Examples of mystical experience are drawn chiefly from Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, but also from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Daoism.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Rationality of Mysticism written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerome I. Gellman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801433207
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (332 download)
Download or read book Experience of God and the Rationality of Theistic Belief written by Jerome I. Gellman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerome I. Gellman observes that the mystic experience of God's presence, a sense of having direct contact with the divine, often compels belief in God's existence. On the basis of widely accepted principles connecting appearance with reality, Gellman contends, the claims people make of having experienced God show that belief in God is strongly rational, meaning that such claims are sufficient in number and variety to support a line of reasoning making it rational to believe that God exists and irrational to deny God's existence. Gellman considers challenges to his thinking based on epistemological grounds and challenges growing out of the diversity of religious experiences across the range of world religions. He thoroughly evaluates reductionist explanations of apparent experiences of God and finds them incapable of invalidating his view. Finally, he directs his attention to the two most compelling arguments against the existence of God: the charge that the idea of a perfect being is logically incoherent, and the threat to theism based on the existence of evil, in both its logical and probabilistic forms. Until and unless stronger objections come along, he concludes, personal experiences of God constitute sufficient evidence of God's existence.
Author : John Horgan
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780618446636
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Rational Mysticism written by John Horgan and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2004-02-23 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected journalist chronicles the contemporary effort to reach an "empirical" understanding of spiritual enlightenment, drawing on neurology, theology, and psychology to paint this vivid portrait of the intersection between religion and science in the modern world. Reprint.
Author : Robert M. Wallace
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350082880
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Philosophical Mysticism in Plato, Hegel, and the Present written by Robert M. Wallace and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few twenty-first century academics take seriously mysticism's claim that we have direct knowledge of a higher or more “inner” reality or God. But Philosophical Mysticism argues that such leading philosophers of earlier epochs as Plato, G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Alfred North Whitehead were, in fact, all philosophical mystics. This book discusses major versions of philosophical mysticism beginning with Plato. It shows how the framework of mysticism's higher or more inner reality allows nature, freedom, science, ethics, the arts, and a rational religion-in-the-making to work together rather than conflicting with one another. This is how philosophical mysticism understands the relationships of fact to value, rationality to ethics, and the rest. And this is why Plato's notion of ascent or turning inward to a higher or more inner reality has strongly attracted such major figures in philosophy, religion, and literature as Aristotle, Plotinus, St Augustine, Dante Alighieri, Immanuel Kant, Hegel, William Wordsworth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Whitehead, and Wittgenstein. Wallace's Philosophical Mysticism brings this central strand of western philosophy and culture into focus in a way unique in recent scholarship.
Author : Dr Louise Nelstrop
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472419014
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Exploring Lost Dimensions in Christian Mysticism written by Dr Louise Nelstrop and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Mystical theology’ has developed through a range of meanings, from the hidden dimensions of divine significance in the community’s interpretation of its scriptures to the much later ‘science’ of the soul’s ascent into communion with God. The thinkers and questions addressed in this book draws us into the heart of a complicated, beautiful, and often tantalisingly unfinished conversation, continuing over centuries and often brushing allusively into parallel concerns in other religions. Raising fundamental matters of epistemology, representation, metaphysics, and divine reality, contributors approach the mystical from postmodern, feminist, sociological and historical perspectives through thinkers such as Meister Eckhart, Thomas Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, Ignatius of Loyola, William James, Evelyn Underhill, Ernst Troeltsch, Rudolf Otto, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis Chrétien. Medieval and early modern radical prophetic approaches are also explored. This book includes new essays by Sarah Apetrei, Tina Beattie, Raphel Cadenhead, Oliver Davies, Philip Endean, Brian FitzGerald, Ann Loades, George Pattison, Simon D. Podmore, Joel D.S. Rasmussen, and Johannes Zachhuber.
Author : William Kingsland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Rational Mysticism written by William Kingsland and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791414354
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)
Download or read book Mysticism Examined written by Richard H. Jones and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism presents a challenge to anyone who is interested in fundamental questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, and how we should live. In this book the author examines questions posed by mysticism. He clarifies the nature of the claims advanced by Western and Asian mystics, and explores the beliefs and values of classical mystical ways of life for their interconnections and reasonableness. Jones discusses whether all mystical experiences and all mystical claims of knowledge are similar, and examines the relation of concepts and experiences in mystics' claims. Also presented are standards for evaluating competing mystical claims, and mystics' problems with language. Whether mystics' arguments are rational is investigated along with the relation of moral and non-moral values and the role of beliefs and values in enlightened mystics' ways of life. Mysticism's relation to the enterprises of science, theology, psychology and ethics is also examined.
Author : Nick Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907347054
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Eh Na? written by Nick Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an approach that is harmonious with the scientific mindset, Eh Na?, or 'What Now?', deals with exposing the essence of the divine and humanity's connection with it. This book encourages the reader to apply critical thinking, instead of spiritual materialism when approaching the mystical and allows the reader to discover the tools to do so. Mysticism is a field which claims to possess deep, hidden truths but is sorely lacking in critical thinking about those truths. Alternatively, rationality knows how to search for the truth in a careful and systematic fashion. It knows how to check its own work and it knows how to explain itself clearly. If practitioners can train themselves to think logically and critically about what they're doing, it will help them to get further in their practice. Eh Na? provides the critical thinking tools to help you achieve this for yourself.
Author : Anton M. Matytsin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421426021
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Let There Be Enlightenment written by Anton M. Matytsin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the triumphalist narrative of Enlightenment secularism. According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin, Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century thought. The essays probe a wide range of subjects, from reformer Jan Amos Comenius’s quest for universal enlightenment to the changing meanings of the light metaphor, Quaker influences on Baruch Spinoza’s theology, and the unexpected persistence of Aristotle in the Enlightenment. Exploring the emergence of historical consciousness among Enlightenment thinkers while examining their repeated insistence on living in an enlightened age, the collection also investigates the origins and the long-term dynamics of the relationship between faith and reason. Providing an overview of the rich spectrum of eighteenth-century culture, the authors demonstrate that religion was central to Enlightenment thought. The term “enlightenment” itself had a deeply religious connotation. Rather than revisiting the celebrated breaks between the eighteenth century and the period that preceded it, Let There Be Enlightenment reveals the unacknowledged continuities that connect the Enlightenment to its various antecedents. Contributors: Philippe Buc, William J. Bulman, Jeffrey D. Burson, Charly Coleman, Dan Edelstein, Matthew T. Gaetano, Howard Hotson, Anton M. Matytsin, Darrin M. McMahon, James Schmidt, Céline Spector, Jo Van Cauter
Author : Gregory Schufreider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781557530356
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Confessions of a Rational Mystic written by Gregory Schufreider and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confessions of a Rational Mystic exposes both aspects of this transitional thinker through a multidimensional interpretation of his Pioslogion. It treats Anselm's famous proof for the existence of God as both a rational argument and an exercise in mystical theology, analyzing the logic of its reasoning while providing a phenomenological account of the vision of God that is embedded within it. Through a deconstructive reading of the cycle of prayer and proof that forms the overall structure of the text, not only is the argument returned to its place in the Proslogion as a whole, but the historic relationship that it attempts to establish between faith and reason is examined. In this way, the critical role that Anselm played in the history of philosophy is seen in a new light.
