MYSTICISM

Taoism Mysticism and Confucian Mysticism

I want to expand my thinking about Emily Dickinson and her work to include mysticism, women writing, and the high cost of genius.

In many traditional cultures, sonic communication with spirits and gods leads to mysticism, a spiritual quest for personal union with the divine. One such culture is found among the Kalapalo of Brazil.

Mysticism is defined as a reference to a transcendental experience in which one realizes something not by the five senses, but by intuition of a wider or deeper reality. What exactly is it and what role does it play in modern religious practices?

My experience with mysticism.

This 84th essay of "A Rational Cosmology" refutes Reginald Firehammer's allegation that those who believe that life, volition, and consciousness are physical are engaging in a sort of mysticism. There is nothing mystical about physicalism, properly understood.

The earliest form of Jewish mysticism was the Merkavah tradition. Learned Rabbis would fast for 40 days and 40 nights, constantly in prayer, preparing for a conscious ascension to the highest hekhaloth, or the realm of the divine. The journey to...

The Wanderer is an Old English poem of both literary and sociohistorical interest. Here the poem is examined in terms of how it reflects the Anglo-Saxon worldview and, more specifically, the cult of the warrior.

Music serves as a primary vehicle by which Jewish mystics can attune themselves to their spiritual goals.

New experiments in quantum physics, telekinesis, prayer, and the brain, are showing that mystical experiences do exist, that they are valid, and that God (gasp) may exist after all!

Discussing the affects of Mysticicsm and Romanticism on Goethe's Faust.

The question of what religion is has always been a debatable issue. Scholars argue over what constitutes a religion, as opposed to a practice. Some scholars, like Dale Cannon, argue that religion can be defined within certain frameworks, and that...

The era of Romanticism ushered in a new way of thinking: for Romanticists, the subjectivity of feelings, the mysticism of the imagination, and the importance of the individual all added up to one thing: truth.

Kahlil Gibran's philosophy is very simple and it is spiritual and mysticism in good measure. In The Prophet his brand of philosophy is splattered from beginning to end. The protagonist Al Mustafa acts as an exponent of his philosophy which encompasses life unto death.

Kabbalah, the Jewish religion widely considered an ancient mysticism by some and its followers a cult-like group by others is gaining quite a following, not by preaching the centuries-old theories but by reaching the masses through merchandising.

This, of course, leads you to believe that I am from the collection of folks who believe in UFOs, alien abductions and space monsters. You might even think I believe in mysticism or magic.

Its beliefs are outside of standard Jewish mysticism, but the question is, is the group led by Rabbi Phillip Berg dangerous or just a way to sucker in celebrities?

Mysticism and Orientalism in selected 18th century poetry.

A blade-wielding, justice-seeking Victorian barber, a pathologist investigating murder and mysticism in a 1933 world gripped by the Inquisition, an adventurer coping with the underbelly of the contemporary world,