Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki » 2022 Issue 4 Zbigniew Landowski, Arabistyka w PRL (1945–1990). Narodziny, historia, modernizacja, Wydawnictwo Episteme, Lublin 2021, ss. 690 A

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...

There is evidence that an inclination towards spirituality could be genetic ( Hamer 2004 ). The existence of a god cannot be proven. We arrive at belief in God either through faith or through an interior experience, such as a mystical state.

In mystical ethics, some virtues have a foundational role in relation to other virtues; that is, other virtues are in some ways dependent on, conditional to, or rooted in them. This is a gradational concept, and therefore one can speak of foundational and more foundational among foundational virtues in mysticism. Honesty is the most foundational virtue in mystical ethics, and other virtues are ...

When John Down was 18 years old, he had some kind of mystical experience. He met a girl that appeared so peculiar, that he felt sorry for her and, consciously or unconsciously, would spend his whole life searching for this phenomenon. He decided to study Medicine, became the director of the largest “Asylum for Idiots” in England and wrote articles and books about the thing that fascinated him s...