This article focuses on the mystical connotations of olfactory images in V. Nabokov’s prose from his French period (1937–1940). The authors analyse connection between mystical, philosophical, and aesthetic conceptions. They demonstrate that experience is not conveyed by writer directly but through narration structure forms code literature philosophy (as N. Gogol, P. Ouspensky, A. Bergson, etc.)...

Alma M. Karlin (1889–1950), a world traveller and German-language travel fiction writer, cultivated keen interest in religious beliefs practices of the places she visited, believing Romantic notion religion as distilled soul nations well Theosophical presumption that all religions are just particular iterations an underlying universal truth. For this reason, topic was central to both her person...

Creative insight and mystical union differ as to depth of withdrawal, which is a way of saying how closely they are bound to the phenomenal world. The difference between the creative and the mystical reflects disparities in the descent. The similarities reflect the common process through which descent is achieved. Neuropsychology is critical in revealing the imaginal undersurface of veridical o...

This study examined relationships of self-reported Mysticism with dispositional Depression and Anxiety in Iranian Muslims. The sample contained 80 women and 51 men undergraduates who volunteered to participate (M age=20.5 yr., SD= 2.0). Participants responded to the Hood Mysticism Scale and to the Costello and Comrey Depression and Anxiety Scales. Scores on the Religious Interpretation dimensio...