Man's progress toward what we consider enlightenment and culture has come through the refinements of analytical discrimination. Though civilization, even in western Europe and America, is of romantic origin, successful thinking is predominantly analytic. Religion is a romantic emotion, but theology, like every other branch of learning is analytic, and the differentiating catechisms of the Chris...

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...

both positive and negative; in the medieval world, however, it held a precise meaning, often also referred to as “contemplation” or “the contemplative life.” The mysticism of this period had some merits, but also some serious flaws in both theology and practice. In many respects, the mysticism of the medieval world derived from early Latin mysticism, which in turn evolved from an amalgamation o...

In the field of English literature, William Butler Yeats is greatest poet and connection between nineteenth twentieth centuries. He a multifaceted person who lyric poet, shaman, mythologist, romantic. with political agenda (to small extent); prophetic outlook mystic philosophy; expertise dramaturgy experiments. The aim this paper to investigate impact India Hinduism on his poetry. It claims tha...

motifs and mythical thoughts through human history go into a variety of formats to survive and are reconstructed, recreated and reproduced in ideas and different worlds. one of these realms and worlds is a mystical world. motifs and common points of the world of myth and mysticism in foundations of knowledge,interpretability, sacred time and space, symbolic language stem the possibility of conv...

During Ramadhan month in the 2000s, most Indonesian TV stations used to air Islamic-themed soap operas. However, stories of those operas did not represent Islamic values. Rather than showing messages their stories, scenes were all about melodrama and mysticism. This research aims analyze compare two Islamic-labeled operas, Lorong Waktu 3 (2002) Kiamat Sudah Dekat (2005), claimed as real by Dedi...

The article considers whether, and how, current scientific studies of consciousness might benefit from insights of mystical traditions. Although considerable effort has been expanded towards introducing mysticism into mainstream cognitive science, the topic is still controversial, not least because of the multifariousness of meaning associated with the term (from “illogical thinking” through “v...

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...