The article aims to understand the basis of Imam al-Ghazali’s economic thought. There are two streams studied, namely rationalism and sufism which thought influence In this article, it is concluded that philosophy al-Ghazali knows no dichotomy between world perspective hereafter ones. point view was used did not stop at worldview, but succeeded in containing Islamic values, were oriented afterl...

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 ...

In this paper we try to make a clear distinction between quantum mysticism and quantum mind theory. Quackery always accompanies science especially in controversial and still under development areas and since the quantum mind theory is a science youngster it must clearly demarcate itself from the great stu of pseudo-science currently patronized by the term quantum mind . Quantum theory has attra...

philosophical – theological research the quarterly journal of qom university under the supervision of the vice – president for research vol. 15,  no. 2, winter 2013.  proprietor: university of qom chief director: muhammad zabihi. ph.d chief editor: ahmad beheshti, ph.d   board of writers ahmad beheshti, ph.d; gholam-hossein ebrahimi dinani, ph.d; mohsen javadi, ph.d; hojatoleslam sadeq larigani...

This paper critically examines whether, and how, mystical insights can be conveyed in language. First, the problem of mystical ineffability is briefly presented: how, if at all, is it possible to express the supposedly transrational and transconceptual (non-dualistic) mystical experience in rational and conceptual (dualistic) linguistic terms? Second, drawing on the Wittgensteinian distinction ...

In a variety of synaesthesia, photisms result from affect-laden stimuli as emotional words, or faces of familiar people. For R, who participated in this study, the sight of a familiar person triggers a mental image of "a human silhouette filled with colour". Subjective descriptions of synaesthetic experiences induced by the visual perception of people's figures and faces show similarities with ...