John of the Cross and Carmel

2021 ◽  
pp. 79-91
Author(s):  
Terence O’Reilly ◽  
Stephen Boyd
Keyword(s):  
The Cross ◽  
John Of The Cross

scholarly journals Meditation and perception: some notes on the psychology of religious mysticism

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 34-46
Author(s):  
Hjalmar Sundén
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Physiological Conditions ◽  
Saint John ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mystical Experiences ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Difference ◽  
John Of The Cross

The study of mysticism must be carried on with more attention paid to the meditative techniques used by mystics and to the problems of perception. In this paper the author presents some remarks on the difference between Saint Teresa and Saint John of the Cross, and then mentions some recent studies of meditation and some problems of perception. If meditative techniques have become of great importance in psychotheraphy, the organismic approach of the "mindcurers" and their results will permit us to complete phenomenological descriptions of mystic conscious states with more exact information of their physiological conditions. In this way "mystical experiences" in general can be seen as results of meditative techniques and we need not regard "an hysterical predisposition" of the subject as their necessary condition.

scholarly journals The Unio Mystica of Teresa of Avila: two classical presentations in the light of psychology

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 275-306
Author(s):  
Hans Åkerberg
Keyword(s):  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Teresa Of Avila ◽  
The Cross ◽  
John Of The Cross ◽  
Unio Mystica

It is generally maintained within the Carmelite tradition that Teresa (1515-1582) showed an extraordinary facility in describing the stages of mysticism with experimential vigour and deep intensity, compared for example to John of the Cross, whose mystical presentation is of a more dogmatic and systematic nature. In this sense she would appear to be unsurpassed within the entire Roman Catholic mystic tradition. The author compares two classical presentations by Teresa of the significance of unio mystica, firstly her description of this in the Libro de la vida, and secondly her presentation of the same mystic element in the book Castillo interior o Las moradas.

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