scholarly journals Archeosophy and experimental metaphysics of Palamidessi

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Corradetti
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Spiritual Senses ◽  
The Awakening

The centre of the reflections of Tommaso Palamidessi (1915 1983), starting from the first writings of the 1940’s, is the providing of the spiritual techniques capable of carrying forward the study of the metaphysical reality to anexperimental plane. The f ull realization of his “experimental metaphysics” is constituted by Archeosophy, understood as the experimental way, presented by him in 1968 and developed in the following years. The concrete basis of every supersensible experimentation for Palamidessi is the awakening of those which are the centres of force, identified with the “spiritual senses” of the Fathers of Church, which as such allow the superior worlds to be rendered sensible. In the thought of Palamidessi therefore the possibility of an experimental metaphysics and of a spiritual practice become implementable once the techniques of awakening and of the development of these subtle centres are provided.While taking into account the thematic vastness of the various “asceses” proposed by Archeosophy, with the relative methods, experiments and exercises, in this study we synthetically present three orders of spiritual practices suggested by Palamidessi in his writings, and widely diffused among Archeosophers: the meditation on the centres of force, the spiritual exercises with the “rite of the eucharistia lucernaris ” and the Cardiognosis with the “prayer to the Sapience".

scholarly journals Spiritual Practices and the Language Problem

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
P.S. Vasilyev
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Language Problem ◽  
Spiritual Tradition ◽  
Definition Of

In this article a new approach to the interpretation of religious-mystical experience, which bases on a notion of “mystical practice” as specific underclass of spiritual practices, is being tried out. An analysis of anthropological concepts, in which the practices of constructing oneself are central, is being held (M. Foucault, P. Ado). A role of spiritual practices and spiritual exercises in constructing person’s consti- tution is being outlined. Problems of spiritual practice language, interconnections between apophatic and kataphatic interpretation of experience and of definition of spiritual tradition as a certain communicative dimension are being raised.

scholarly journals PRAKTIK SPIRITUAL SEBAGAI KOMODITI SOSIAL DALAM ERA GLOBALISASI

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
Made G Juniartha
Keyword(s):  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Entertainment Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Overall Life Satisfaction

ABSTRAK Praktik spiritual menjadi sebuah jalan yang dapat meningkatkan kesadaran seseorang terhadap dirinya, kemampuan penerimaan diri dan orang lain serta kepuasan hidup secara menyeluruh. Memang inti agama adalah spiritualitas, tetapi spiritualitas sendiri bukanlah agama. Globalisasi telah mengubah cara pandang orang dalam menghadapi berbagai hal, termasuk dalam hal spiritual. Perubahan itu dialami oleh semua agama seiring pertumbuhan dan perkembangan praktik-praktik spiritual. Ketika praktik-praktik spiritual yang semula menjadi hal yang sakral, namun hadirnya era Globalisasi memberikan pemaknaan yang tidak bisa dijadikan sebagai acuan yang pasti. Tidak mampu lagi manusia membedakan mana yang profan dan sakral, mana yang tidak dalam dan dangkal, karena semua hadir dalam ruang yang campur aduk, tidak hanya dalam budaya, hiburan, pendidikan bahkan nilai-nilainya dan agama pun mengalami komodifikasi. Perkembangan spiritual yang begitu pesat tidak terlepas dari permintaan konsumen dan berbagai dukungan publikasi baik melalui media cetak maupun elektronik.   Kata kunci: praktik spiritual, komoditi sosial dan globalisasi   ABSTRACT Spiritual practice becomes a path that can increase one's awareness of himself, the ability to accept oneself and others as well as overall life satisfaction. Indeed the core of religion is spirituality, but spirituality itself is not religion. Globalization has changed the way people look at dealing with various things, including in spiritual matters. This change is experienced by all religions as the growth and development of spiritual practices. When the spiritual practices that were originally sacred, the presence of the Globalization era gives a meaning that cannot be used as a definite reference. Humans are no longer able to distinguish between profane and sacred, which are not deep and shallow, because all are present in a mixed space, not only in culture, entertainment, education, even values ​​and religion are experiencing commodification. The rapid spiritual development is inseparable from consumer demand and various support for publications both through print and electronic media.   Keywords: spiritual practices, social commodities and globalization

scholarly journals Sabbath-keeping in the Bible from the perspective of biblical spirituality

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pieter G.R. De Villiers ◽  
George Marchinkowski
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Hebrew Scriptures ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Sabbath Keeping

This article responds to the renewed interest in the spiritual practice of Sabbath-keeping by investigating its nature and meaning in the Judeo-Christian traditions. After briefly analysing the reasons for the contemporary neglect of Sabbath-keeping and indications of its renaissance, this article will analyse biblical pronouncements about the Sabbath, mainly from Hebrew Scriptures, but with brief attention to Christian Scriptures that provide various insights of decisive importance to understand and explain its prominent place for faith communities, but that are vitally important for reinvigorating Sabbath-keeping in a contemporary context. It analyses pronouncements in the Bible in Genesis 2:1–3 that highlights the Sabbath as joyful resting; the need for Sabbath-keeping as commandment in Exodus 20:9–11 and in Deuteronomy 5:12–15, and, finally Sabbath-keeping as trust in God as the provider in Exodus 16:1–30. Various spiritual insights and implications of these passages will be discussed. The article assumes historical critical insights as developed in biblical studies but develops a theological analysis that explains the spiritual dynamics in these texts. These spiritual insights explain the prominence of Sabbath-keeping in the Bible and its practice in the Judeo-Christian religious discourse.Contribution: This article contributes to scholarship on spiritual practices, by analysing the nature and meaning of Sabbath-keeping in Genesis 2:1–3, Exodus 20:9–11; Deuteronomy 5:12–15 and Exodus 16:1–30, stressing their spiritual dynamics in terms of joyful resting, as commandment, as trust in divine provision and as a reflection of their covenantal nature.

scholarly journals Finding God in All Things through Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 190-197
Author(s):  
Novita Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
Common Theme ◽  
Ignatian Spirituality ◽  
The Core ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Universe

Poetry is a language of devotion. It is the melody that resonates from one’s pure conscience. Being the most important and richest part of our spiritual practice, people read and write poems to help them gain understanding about themselves, each other, and the world around them. Examining world poetry, mainly from America, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka which  tell about the presence of God, this article attempts to find out how God the Creator is present and represented, focusing as it does on the connection between poetry and spiritual exercises. Each of the seven poems under discussion is read by considering Ignatian Spirituality of which the core is “Finding God in All Things”. The selected poems show that God can indeed be found in three main spots. First, God resides in the universe. The presence of God in nature is a common theme shared by the poets discussed. Second, the speakers of the poems find God within themselves. They find God through discretion. Third, some of them find the face of God in that of other people because humans are created in His image. The poems open an awareness that God is present in the sufferings of others. In conclusion, poetry serves as both prayers and spiritual exercises that can improve people’s inner compassion and justice.

Body-Wise: Re-Fleshing Christian Spiritual Practice in Trauma’s Wake

2018 ◽  
pp. 240-255
Author(s):  
Marcia Mount Shoop
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
Faith Tradition ◽  
Christian Institutions ◽  
Many Core ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
Healing Modalities

Though Christian Theology profess a God who inhabits flesh, bodies have been historically and systematically ignored and reviled by many institutional expressions of this faith tradition. Even as many core Christian institutions resist the Incarnational symmetry between embodied practice and Christian theological professions, bodies explore and embrace healing modalities at the margins of Christian practice. Using the emerging wisdom of four particular healing explorations along the margins of Christian institutional life, this chapter explores the contours of Christian spiritual practices that fold out of trauma. By focusing on the institutional practices of Kevin Ladd with labyrinths, Shelley Rambo with the Warriors Journey Home project, Sr. Joanna Walsh with trusting touch, and my own Wandering Home Retreat for women, this chapter attends to these contours with an eye toward possibilities for institutional transformation around trauma.

scholarly journals The Ideology of Spiritual Practices in Persatuan Seni Silat Cekak Malaysia (PSSCM)

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 77
Author(s):  
Nur Enanee Ezani ◽  
Nozira Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Martial Arts ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
Islamic Faith

Malay martial arts is often associated with the practice that contains elements of superstitions. This can be seen when religious authorities such as the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia or popularly known as (JAKIM) and Selangor Islamic Religious Department (JAIS) published guideline books for martial arts associations in Malaysia according to Islam. Therefore, there is a martial arts association in Malaysia, namely Persatuan Seni Silat Cekak Malaysia (PSSCM) have a clear vision of upholding the original Malay Silat, especially Malaysian martial arts, and clean from all superstitions which are not align with the Islamic faith. Therefore, the approach of this study is to identify the ideology of spiritual practices found in PSSCM that are free from superstitions and capable of educating morals and noble practices. This study uses a qualitative methodology based on content analysis and this study will analyze documents related to the ideology of spiritual practice in PSSCM. The study found that PSSCM has an ideology of spiritual practices that are aimed at educating the spiritual and the virtuous. This practice also does not conflict with the Islamic Shariᶜa. Therefore, PSSCM is not merely educating people to take care of themselves but also signaling them with good moral characters.

Spirituality and the Clinical Encounter

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Yuen
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Encounter ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Clinical Decisions ◽  
Liminal Space ◽  
Clinical Encounters ◽  
Uncertain Outcomes

Patients who are ill must often face difficult clinical decisions with uncertain outcomes. Spiritual practices have the ability to articulate this uncertainty by providing a context where anxieties may be faced, felt, and understood. These understandings may support increased clarity about factual and emotional content in clinical decisions. Key to spiritual practice is the inclusion of the “unknown” or “liminal space” within the clinical encounter. In healthcare encounters, we often deny we are standing at the threshold of the unknown. Steps for accessing an applied spirituality that allows practitioners to enter, stay, and leave a liminal space in clinical encounters are described.

scholarly journals Functions and Forms of Verbality in Spiritual Practices and Practices Related to Them

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 59-88
Author(s):  
S.S. Horujy
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Zen Buddhism ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Eastern Orthodox ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Practices Of The Self ◽  
Far Eastern

Functions and forms, in which the verb is used in spiritual practices and practices related closely to them are analyzed systematically. The following classes of prac¬tices are considered: 1) Eastern-Orthodox hesychasm, 2) Hellenistic practices of the Self (practices of the Roman Stoicism, Cynism and Epicureanism) as they are interpreted by Michel Foucault, 3) Far-Eastern practices as they are represented in Zen-Buddhism. The problem of the sacred word in spiritual practice is discussed. A number of comparative observations and conclusions are obtained concerning, in particular, "hot" and "cool" practices and corresponding kinds of verbality, typolog¬ical distinctions of verbality in Eastern and Western anthropological practices, etc.

Analytic Theology as a Spiritual Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
William Wood
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Philosophical Theology ◽  
Spiritual Exercises ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Of The Mind ◽  
Authentic Development ◽  
The Mind

Part III calls for a more theological analytic theology and defends analytic theology from some common theological objections. Many theologians reject analytic theology because they find it too abstract and spiritually sterile to count as genuine theology. In contrast, I argue that analytic theology may be understood as a spiritual practice. Intellectual practices are also spiritual exercises when they (1) aim at self-improvement or liberation, instead of simply the acquisition of knowledge; (2) discipline the passions, since unchecked passions and immoderate desires are the enemy of both the spiritual life and the life of the mind; (3) help us see the world as it really is, rather than as we imagine or wish it to be; and (4) help us cultivate specific virtues that are at once intellectual and moral, like attention or concentration. It is in these senses that analytic theology can be understood as a spiritual practice. Analytic theology is an authentic development of a tradition of Christian philosophical theology, which includes Anselm and Aquinas as members, and which treats theology as both theoretical and practical at once.

scholarly journals A Forgotten Spiritual Practice: Puritan Conference and Implications for the Church Today

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Rebecca F. Carhart
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Spiritual Practices ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Christian Community ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Church

In Christian books today readers can find dozens of spiritual practices. One resource of the Protestant tradition, however, that has largely been forgotten is the Puritan practice of conference. This article describes how for the English Puritans conference exemplified the importance of communal spiritual life, then considers applications for the contemporary church. Conference refers to intentional conversation among believers about spiritual matters. Conference particularly expresses the value of Christian community and the need for the body of Christ to function together on the journey of faith. Understanding this practice not only illuminates the past but also offers valuable insights for the church today.

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