This paper attempts to answer three questions: (1) Was Emerson a mystic? (2) If so, what is the nature of his mysticism? (3) How has his understanding of mysticism influenced by Unitarian theology and spiritual practice? In doing so, it draws upon historical and contemporary studies of mysticism and mystical experience, including those of William James, Leigh Eric Schmidt, and Bernard McGinn am...

Half a century after Michael Polanyi conceptualised ‘the tacit component’ in personal knowing, management studies has reinvented ‘tacit knowledge’—albeit in ways that squander the advantages of Polanyi’s insights and ignore his faith in ‘spiritual reality’. While tacit knowing challenged the absurdities of sheer objectivity, expressed in a ‘perfect language’, it fused rational knowing, based on...

therapy' are being practised. These methods reflect the depersonalising forces working in society as a whole. Thus a radical and forthright book dealing honestly with relationships between persons in a social context is an event of importance. Dr. Laing's new book is such an event and will, if widely read, reinforce the striking impact which this original and creative psychiatrist has made in h...

This article will consider the unitive stage in mystical path Henri Nouwen lived and wrote about. It begin by characterising way, together with its journey motif. Then, it place Nouwen's spirituality within context of his life writing, finally, outline three events which led to describe tentatively. The first "mystical moment" emerges from contemplation Divine/Human embrace Rembrandt's painting...

sheikh saadi's poem is one of the areas such as parks, school has created a literary work, his qsayd. qsayd saadi widely as though he is ghzlhay and expression, saadi mingled with admiration of kings stroke saadi teaches the moral teachings of the spirit, and where you can see and reflect on the verses, even on the concepts found rfanyay saadi, who incidentally is also praised and emphasiz...

a portrait of the artist as a young man portrays stages of spiritual developments of a young artist. based on some mystical backgrounds, particularly aquinas’s mystical aesthetics, and referring to theosophists like bruno and saint augustine, joyce comes to a kind of mystical aesthetics of art. he, accordingly, depicts a young artist whose aesthetic attitude is mystical, encounters epiphany, an...

For those with true near-death experiences (NDEs), Greyson's (1983, 1990) NDE Scale satisfactorily fits the Rasch rating scale model, thus yielding a unidimensional measure with interval-level scaling properties. With increasing intensity, NDEs reflect peace, joy and harmony, followed by insight and mystical or religious experiences, while the most intense NDEs involve an awareness of things oc...

While Rosemary Radford Ruether is widely, and rightly, acknowledged as a prophetic Catholic scholar–activist, her interest in experience of mysticism rarely emphasized. However, had an impactful mystical young woman, the themes this echo throughout body work. This paper paints portrait both profoundly scholar–activist spiritually attuned seeker very divinity that she encountered twenties. In pr...