Abstract It has often been claimed, e.g. by William James or Aldous Huxley, that mystical experiences across times and cultures exhibit a striking similarity. Even though the words images we use to describe them are different, underneath surface find common experiential core. Others have rejected this claim argued all intrinsically shaped mystics’ pre-existing religious concepts. Against these ...

Mysticism is a method of thinking not wildly shared by the majority people around entire world whereas unique individuals sap at roots this concept. Less coherent movement than way thinking, concept mysticism systematically defined as firm set ideas but more tended to be shaped dealing with In respect, each person carries notion in his further exploration on own accord since highly individualis...

a hierarchy of information processing is proposed, with the provisionally highest level being the symbolic reasoning that distinguishes humans from animals. This level is based on an abstract language of thought or “code”, consisting of concepts represented by symbols and a syntactical mechanism for combining these concepts into new expressions. The main shortcoming of this conceptual-symbolic ...

The question of the origin of Islamic mysticism has been one of the major concerns of many researchers in the field of mysticism in the recent decades. Some have maintained that Islamic mysticism is an imported product: a combination of Eastern spiritual traditions or a mixture of Manichaeism and Alexandrian philosophy. However, in order to find out the real origin of Islamic mysticism, the bes...

"The craving for an interpretation of history is so deep-rooted that, unless we have a constructive outlook over the past, we are drawn either to mysticism or to cynicism."1