art has not been extensively discussed in the islamic tradition, except a few instances in the islamic jurisprudence. there is no discussion of the essence or definition of art in islamic scholarly spheres, including philosophical spheres. one can find nothing comparable to the philosophy of art as found in the western philosophy, especially after the eighteenth century, in the philosophical or...

Abstract In this paper I aim to show how a meaningful correlation can be made between the two mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Tantra by drawing upon ideas from philosophy art aesthetics, especially as it relates intersection images words. A common leitmotif is that both these nominate perception God which through its manifold expression realized work art. It represents creative response env...

formed contractually, signs in literature are often symbolic in nature. the poems and paintings of sohrab sepehri, the contemporary iranian poet and painter, are imbued with such signs which, if decoded, are rendered more tangible and more intelligible. sepehri’s signs have their origins in nature and hindu and buddhist mysticism. with his mystical intuition and platonic aesthetics, sepehri has...

Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece, The wind in the willows, contains a classic description of a religious experience as Ratty and Mole come face-to-face with the Piper at the Gates of Dawn. This chapter draws on Happold’s identification of seven characteristics of mystical experience, as amplified by the Francis-Louden Mystical Orientation Scale, to test whether Ratty and Mole’s experience can be p...

This paper proposes to study mystical experience by contrasting it with “ordinary” experience, i.e., standard consciousness. It emphasises the construed nature of consciousness and role that mutual connectedness mental contents plays in its construction. then shows removal factors are responsible for “making” accounts principal features experience; these are, therefore, mainly negative. Underst...

Mystical experiences relate to a fundamental dimension of human existence. These experiences, which are characterized by a sense of union with God, are commonly reported across all cultures. To date, no electroencephalography (EEG) study has been conducted to identify the neuroelectrical correlates of such experiences. The main objective of this study was to measure EEG spectral power and coher...

A large body of historical evidence describes the use of hallucinogenic compounds, such as psilocybin mushrooms, for religious purposes. But few scientific studies have attempted to measure or characterize hallucinogen-occasioned spiritual experiences. The present study examined the factor structure of the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ), a self-report measure that has been used to asse...