Audience persuasion, as a process used to change the audience attitude and associate him with speaker's beliefs, is one of main objectives educational mystics texts including spiritual Mathnawi (Masnavii Ma’navi) Jalalu'ddin Rumi, Mawlana. Mawlawi all over has tried convey mystical religious concepts by resorting different ways influencing benefited from several verbal nonverbal or non-mystical...

The heavenly ascent motif is common in religious documents of late antiquity. A preoccupation with the similarities between these accounts leads some to overlook the equally important differences. Care should be taken, however, to distinguish between mystical esotericism and extraordinary religious encounter. Earlier Jewish traditions provide the proper context for understanding Paul's visions ...

in this article, the author studies the history of pluralism in the west and islamic world. then he has a look on the scopes and applications of pluralism and gives a new classification for it: 1- behavioral pluralism 2- cognitive pluralism he extends his philosophical thoughts and offers a novel point of view on this topic.

Background: Practitioners in a variety of spiritual/religious traditions have described “mystical experiences”, defined by common set qualities. The “Mystical Experience Questionnaire” (MEQ30) provides validated and quantitative measure mystical experience, has been used successfully to demonstrate that the hallucinogenic substance psilocybin triggers mystical-type e...

undoubtedly, the disability to express the mystical experiences is what all mystics in east or west have rigid consensus on; it means that mystical facts and high concepts obtained through intuition aren’t possible to be expressed.  jalāl al-dīn muhammad balkhī, mowlavi has clearly explained in his masnavi the different forms of the issue and actually shows the literal difficulties to express m...

molavi's theological and mystical point of view on determinism is different. he criticizes of theological determinism, but advocates of mystical determinism. molavi refuses the determinists' belief about determinism because it has unfavorable results in worldly and eternal life. but he accepts the free and amorous determinism of mystics. his reasons in refusing theological determinism...

We are now witnessing a radical revival in clinical research on the use of psychedelics (e.g. LSD and psilocybin), where ‘mystical’ experiences at centre. Drawing in-depth interviews with 50 psychedelic drug users, we document how they draw archetypical mystical narratives, comprising three key dimensions: (1) transcendence time space; (2) deep euphoria; (3) perception being one ‘a larger whole...