T     deconstruction has so far resisted historicization. But perhaps the crucial factor has been the continuing presence of its main practitioner, Jacques Derrida, who refused, one might say, to become part of history. Right up to his death in October of 2004, Derrida wrote about some of the key issues facing the world today. So while deconstruction as a ‘‘theory’’ has lar...

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 study focuses on the effect of user-friendly, impersonal, and hybrid texts on the reading comprehension ability of Iranian foreign language learners. Forty-five students of AlzahraUniversity were selected on the basis of their performance in a recent TOEFL. They were given three different texts (each group of 15 students was given one type) describing the same area of English usage, w...

There have been many texts over the years examining issues to do with emotional health and well-being, most of which provide a discourse to argue that the practice of healing and the art of medicine have become overly ‘medicalised’ to the detriment of more integrated and holistic responses to people’s health and illness. For example, in Janzen’s The Social Fabric of Health w1x it was argued how...

pand-e piran is of the mystical texts has remained from fifth hegira century whose author is unknown. this work contains a set of parables with various subjects. one of the most prominent subjects n this work is sophism and mystics . the source of this work’s parables which is on famous sophists of third hegira century and their life style and majesty has remained unknown and is not mentioned t...

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 ...

The present text is the first part of study which examines idea Severus Antioch on transforming language theology way from Triadology to Christology and critique given it in Leontius Byzantium’s treatise “Refutation syllogisms Severus”. As per Severus, Incarnation God Word requires modification also theological description confession this pivotal dogma for Christianity as compared with manifest...