MYSTICISM: ITS MEANING AND DANGER

Drugs and Mysticism

The claim has been made that the experience facilitated by psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, can be similar or identical to the experience described by the mystics of all ages, cultures, and religions. This paper will attempt to examine and explain this possibility. There is a long and continuing history of the religious use of plants that contain psychedelic substances...

Isostasy and its Meaning

The theory of isostasy supposes that, in regions which have not been disturbed recently, each vertical column of the earth's crust with a certain minimum radius and extending to a depth of about IOO km has approximately the same mass. To find the deviation from this approximation in a given region, the density must be assumed as a function of depth. Such assumptions used at present for calculat...

Mathematics and mysticism.

Is there a world of mathematics above and beyond ordinary reality, as Plato proposed? Or is mathematics a cultural construct? In this short article we speculate on the place of mathematical reality from the perspective of the mystical cosmologies of the ancient traditions of meditation, psychedelics, and divination.

Differentiation between Light and Fire in Quran and Islamic Mysticism And Its Influence on Islamic Painting

Abstract:Islamic painting is clearly influenced by the fundamental principles of Islamic thought. Not only this affects the meaning and content but also affects the form and structure of painting influenced the principles of Islamic thought. For example, the Quran as the main reference of Islamic thought expresses Islamic thought about color. We know that the color is the emission of the light ...

David Ranson , Between the “ Mysticism of Politics ” and the “ Politics of Mysticism ” : Interpreting