Introvertive Mystical Experiences: Monistic, Theistic, and the Theo-monistic

1993 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-184
Author(s):  
Michael Stoeber
Keyword(s):  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Spiritual Training ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Mystical Experiences

Some scholars have responded to the apparent differences between monistic and theistic mysticisms by emphasizing the role of socio-religious interpretations of the experiences. Both monistic and theistic experiences, they point out, are described as wholly unlike normal sensory events. These mystics claim to go beyond the usual categories of cognition; the experiences are said to be spaceless and timeless realizations which, though not strictly ineffable, defy precise and positive description. Moreover, the mystical exercises – the spiritual training and mental preparation – seem similar for both theistic and monistic mystics. Common mystical means, along with the cessation of normal categories of interpretation during the experiences, suggest that mystics interpret a singular experience type according to their particular theological or philosophical background.

Tarbiya and Gnosis in Hausa Islamic Verse: Al-Ṣābūn al-Muṭahhir by Muḥammad Balarabe of Shellen (Adamawa, Nigeria)

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-325
Author(s):  
Andrea Brigaglia
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Spiritual Training ◽  
Arabic Script ◽  
Latin Script ◽  
Philosophical Background

Abstract This paper contains a transliteration in Latin script, an English translation and an analysis of Al-Ṣābūn al-Muṭahhir (“The Cleansing Soap”), a poem on tarbiya (spiritual training) and ma‘rifa (gnosis) originally written in the Hausa language using Arabic script by Muḥammad Balarabe (d. 1967) of Shellen, in Adamawa, Nigeria. Balarabe was a Sufi of the Tijāniyya order affiliated to the Jamā‘at al-fayḍa of the Senegalese Ibrāhīm Niasse (d. 1975). In style and content, Balarabe’s poem serves as a corrective to some of the observations on Hausa Sufi poetry made by Mervyn Hiskett in his classic 1975 monograph. Drawing attention to the philosophical background of the poem (a dense web of doctrines that integrates Akbarī Sufism and Aš‘arī theology), the paper also suggests that some of the generalizations made by Hiskett in a 1980 article on the Hausa literature produced by the Jamā‘at al-fayḍa are in need of revision.1

scholarly journals Images, Reality and Truth: Some Philosophical Considerations

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Santiago Sia
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Right To Know ◽  
Excellent Quality ◽  
The Status ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Laws And Policies

Developments in technology and communications haveenhanced the status and role of imaging. They haveresulted not just in the excellent quality of images but alsoin the speed and ease of distributing or communicatingthem. But with the welcome advances have also comeundesirable and even threatening consequences for bothindividuals and society. These have presented challengesand issues which need to be addressed urgently. Focusingfirst on the tension between image and reality, it providesa philosophical background to the debate. It thendiscusses the question of truth and the related issues ofthe right to know, freedom of speech and privacy. Itprovides the foundation for these fundamental rights butalso examines the tensions or conflicts in their exercise. Italso discusses some guidelines to deal with thesechallenges and issues; namely, the criteria ofappropriateness and acceptability and the importance ofaccountability. It suggests that in addition, given thefrailty of human nature and the lessons of history, societyalso needs the support of laws and policies.

The Role of Phenomenology in Psychiatry

1967 ◽  
Vol 113 (500) ◽  
pp. 765-770 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Kräupl Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Implications ◽  
Philosophical Background

The term “phenomenology” was imported into psychiatry from the field of philosophy. I intend to give a brief and necessarily simplified account of its philosophical background, the various meanings applied to it, and some of the clinical implications following from it.

scholarly journals Estetika Sema Dalam Tarekat Sufi Naqsybandi Haqqani Jakarta Sebagai Media Penanaman Pendidikan Tauhid

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Agung Dwi Putra
Keyword(s):  
Central Issue ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
Spiritual Training ◽  
Platonic Love ◽  
Sufi Order ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Concept Of Beauty

The concept of beauty (aesthetic) as a central issue to reveal the meaningfulness of the value of a form of art or artwork, can not be done by generalizing. The emergence of the phenomenon of art with the term Sema in the Sufi order Naqsybandi Haqqani Jakarta can certainly be assumed as a transformation of the values of Tauhid education based on the aesthetic concept of Sufism in the domain of Islam, because the existence of Sufi orders in general only offer spiritual teachings (aims) to achieve purification of Tawheed. This research is included in qualitative paradigm with phenomenology approach. Through this research it is revealed that the love of divinity or platonic love based on Tawheed (esoteric) is the aesthetic concept of the Naqsybandi Sema tariqa Haqqani Jakarta as the manifestation of the consciousness of the perpetrators, which is awakened through spiritual training in the tarekat. Sema in the Naqsybandi Haqqani Order of Jakarta is also known to play the role of educational media in instilling the values of Tawheed through its beautiful symbols (exoteric) and meaningful Ketauhidan. 

scholarly journals Del vacío clásico al vacío cuántico

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael A. Alemañ Berenguer
Keyword(s):  
Higgs Boson ◽  
Symmetry Breaking ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Vacuum Field ◽  
Fundamental Structure ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Field Symmetry ◽  
Physical Fields

RESUMENEl anuncio en julio de 2012 de los primeros indicios experimentales sobre la existencia del bosón de Higgs, reavivó el interés del secular debate sobre el significado de conceptos como el vacío y los campos físicos. La evolución de sus interpretaciones revela mutaciones profundas en el trasfondo filosófico de nuestra visión de la naturaleza. Especialmente por cuanto el controvertido papel de las rupturas de simetría se ha añadido a las discusiones sobre las teorías de unificación y la estructura fundamental de la materia.PALABRAS CLAVEESPACIO, ÉTER, VACÍO, CAMPO, SIMETRÍAABSTRACTThe announcement in July 2012 of the first experimental evidence about the Higgs boson existence, intensified interest in the secular debate on the meaning of concepts such as vacuum and physical fields. The evolution of their interpretations reveals profound changes in the philosophical background of our view of nature. Especially since the controversial role of symmetry breaking has been added to the discussions on unification theories and the fundamental structure of matter.KEYWORDSSPACE, ETHER, VACUUM, FIELD, SYMMETRY

Collected traditions and scattered secrets. Eclecticism and esotericism in the works of the 14th century ashkenazi kabbalist Menahem Ziyyoni of Cologne

1999 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 19-44
Author(s):  
Heidi Laura
Keyword(s):  
Specific Character ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Mystical Tradition ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
Large Corpus

There are many examples of authors of mystical works who consciously chose to retreat the role of copyists and collectors of already existing traditions. The emphasis in Kabbalistic works is on recording mystical tradition, while personal reports of mystical experiences or clearly individual expositions of mystical themes are rarely found in the large corpus of Kabbalistic works. This article attempts to illuminate the special place of mosaic works and collectanea in Kabbalistic literature and its specific character, using the works of an unjustly neglected 14th century kabbalist as a focus. The writings of Ashkenazi kabbalist Menahem Ziyyoni are exemplary of the problem of collected works. Kabbalistic anthological works had an especially golden period in the 14th century. The mosaic works of the 14th century became a new way of continuing the zoharic project of an overarching hermeneutical system, which integrated and legitimated a number of different interpretations of the same text.

The Shaman, the Greengrocer, and “Living in Truth”

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bolton
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Spiritual Training ◽  
Czech Music

This article turns to Havel’s contemporaries in the Czech music underground to look at earlier uses of the phrase “living in truth.” I focus on Egon Bondy’s 1976 novel The Shaman, where truth is portrayed in mystical terms as a form of transcendence achieved through solitary spiritual training—a mental state that is divorced from political opposition. Havel repurposes the idea of “living in truth,” avoiding mystical notions in favor of civic engagement, but he also steers clear of the romance of “dissident stories” about people persecuted for such engagement. I explore why Havel’s famous story of the greengrocer is so weak on motivation; rather than painting a scene or creating a three-dimensional character, Havel gestures weakly at the greengrocer’s sudden transformation into an oppositional figure. Havel also consistently uses scare quotes around the phrase “living in truth,” registering his own discomfort with a phrase that is inspiring, yet plays into dissident clichés. I see The Power of the Powerless as delineating a version of dissident truth while remaining skeptical about its transmission; Havel skillfully mixes pathos and irony as he considers the role of “dissidents” caught between Czechoslovak realities and Western expectations.

scholarly journals The role and responsibilities of nurses in mental preparation of the patient for a surgery

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Teresa Niechwiadowicz-Czapka
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Therapeutic Effects ◽  
Mental Preparation ◽  
Therapeutic Procedures ◽  
Negative Side Effects ◽  
Positive Results ◽  
Interview Questionnaire

Introduction: Preparing the patient for a surgery is a complex task for the entire health care team. Even the best performed surgery will not bring positive results if the patient is not well-prepared for it, both physically and mentally and receives improper care after the surgery. Nurses play the most important role at this point of treatment as they are the ones who take care of the sick directly and spend most time with them. The process of modern technology dominating contemporary field of surgery and narrowing of the specialties have not diminished, but strengthened this role. As the professional assisting and observing the patient constantly, the nurse frequently has a great influence upon the course of the whole treatment. The nurse is the person of the therapeutic team, whose attitude, behavior, the way of communicating the patient, the respect for their rights are the most important elements in preparing the patient for the surgical intervention. This mental preparation should depend on the nature of surgery and the patient’s emotional problems and expectations related to it. Being aware of them allows undertaking effective psychological therapy, minimizing negative side effects of the surgery and pointing out the benefits of it. Therapeutic effects of these interactions are visible regardless of the fact whether they are used by a nurse in a conscious and deliberate, or an intuitive and accidental way. Therefore, nurses’ actions should be aimed at benefiting consciously from well-known therapeutic procedures. Aim of the study is to discuss the tasks and the role of the nurse in mental preparation of the patient for a surgery and to provide a copyright interview questionnaire which allows the nurse to identify the patient’s problems in this matter.

Reconstruction of the Old Institutions

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Ugur Yasin Asal ◽  
Nazım Ekren
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
World Population ◽  
Macroeconomic Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
Philosophical Background ◽  
Economic Imbalances

The recent global economic and financial crisis has fundamentally questioned the crisis management mechanisms of the international institutions. Despite the development of the skills of these institutions, financial vulnerability, economic imbalances, and the instability of the macroeconomic performance indicators are still rising cyclically. The G20 represents roughly 85% percent of global GDP and two-thirds of the world population. It emerged as a leading body for international economic performance. The lack of permanent secretariat of the G20 is decreasing the effectiveness, legitimacy, and the economic viability of the club. Regarding this philosophical background, the role of G20s' institutional structure is examined according to institutional capacity and the macroeconomic performance of the club.

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