Essays about: "mysticism"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the word mysticism.

  1. 6. Absorption predicts mysticism and spirituality, but not following intranasal oxytocin administration : A sensory deprivation experiment

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Psykologiska institutionen

    Author : Michael Skragge; [2017]
    Keywords : Absorption; Spirituality; Religion; Religiosity; Mysticism; Mystical experiences; Mystical-type experiences; Oxytocin; Sensory deprivation;

    Abstract : Recent research has indicated a causal link between oxytocin and spirituality. The present experiment sought to examine the effects of intranasal oxytocin (IN-OT) and absorption on mysticism and spirituality in a sensory deprivation setting. The results failed to find any main effects of IN-OT on mysticism, or on spirituality. READ MORE

  3. 7. A Colombian Nun and the Love of God and Neighbour : The Spiritual Path of María de Jesús (1690s-1776)

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Missionsvetenskap

    Author : Helwi Margarita Cadavid Yani; [2016]
    Keywords : love; God; neighbor; charity; affective; Discalced Carmelites; Barefoot Carmelites; spirituality; convent; nun; white-veiled; Catholic; church; mission; mysticism; mystic; Eucharist; Communion; heart; blood; imagery; metaphor; Purgatory; salvation; soul; sacrament; vision; visions; ineffable; union; rhetoric; rhetoric of femininity; humility; spiritual journal; writings; path; María de Jesús; Teresa of Avila; Teresian presence; Colonial Spanish America; Colombia; New Granada.; kärlek; Gud; nästan; Caritas; affektivt språk; Oskodda karmeliter; Barfota karmeliter; andlighet; andlig; spiritualitet; spirituell; väg; kloster; nunna; katolsk; kyrka; mission; mystik; eukaristi; kommunion; hjärta; blod; bildspråk; metafor; Skärselden; Purgatorium; själ; sakrament; vision; visioner; obeskrivlig; förening; retorik; ödmjukhet; andlig dagbok; skrifter; María de Jesús; Teresa av Avila; kolonial; Amerika; Nya Granada.;

    Abstract : María de Jesús (1690s-1776) was a white-veiled Discalced Carmelite nun of the San José convent in Santa Fe de Bogotá, founded in 1606. She professed in the year 1714, and her spiritual journal was printed in a chronicle about the convent in the 1940s. READ MORE

  4. 8. With Cold Foreign Eyes? Existential Meaning in Truth vs. Mystery in Religion and Art

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap

    Author : Linus Edenwall; [2014]
    Keywords : meaning; mystery; mysticism; sensuousness; immediacy; ineffability; truth; objectivity; existentialism; science; art; concepts; conceptualization; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : This essay explores two approaches to finding existential meaning in religion: either by an approach advocating feelings of mystery and sensuous immediacy, thus justifying an ineffability of mysterious experiences, or by an approach which advocates truth and objectivity. Although the latter approach views truth in existential terms (“existential truth”) it can be criticised for diminishing the “magic” of religion much in the same way science does in its pursuit of material truth. READ MORE

  5. 9. Step in twice : report

    University essay from Kungl. Konsthögskolan

    Author : Ahmad Zolfagharian; [2014]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : || ‘Na-koja-Abad’ does not occur in any Persian dictionary, and it was coined, as far as Iknow, by Sohravardi2 himself. [---] It signifies the city, the country or land (abad) of Nowhere(Na-koja).[---] That is, the transition of the physical cosmos to what constitutes the first level of thespiritual universe. READ MORE

  6. 10. Yoga and the Pedagogy of Enlightenment : Exploring the role of the modern Yoga teacher

    University essay from Pedagogiska institutionen

    Author : Maya Eliasson; [2013]
    Keywords : Hatha Yoga; Pedagogy; Teacher role; Yoga teacher; Hermeneutics;

    Abstract : This study inspired by a hermeneutic premise, aims to explore the role of the modern Yoga teacher and the pedagogy employed by individuals who teach Yoga. Yoga is here acknowledged as a vast concept; this paper regards the Ashtanga as composed by Shri Patanjali in 400B.C. as a possible definition of Yoga. READ MORE