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.

This study is a comparative cognitive analysis of the identical symbols Divine Love in poetry oriental Pakistani poet Omer Tarin and occidental English William Blake. It adopts Mental Spaces theory Cognitive Poetics Perennialism Comparative Mysticism as main theoretical frameworks. The aims at demonstrating mental operation meaning construction these help deliver meaningful mystical perceptions...

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...

When the link between psychedelic drugs and mystical states of experience was first discovered in 1960s, Huston Smith challenged scholars religion philosophy to consider implications. Very few took up his challenge. Beginning 2006, hundreds studies have linked psychedelics not just but potential treatments for many mental health disorders. Regulatory approval therapies is on horizon, millions p...

Aim to consider the possibilities and prospects for formation of interdisciplinary meta-reflection in comprehension religious mystical experience. Using methods critical philosophical reflection dialectical logic, authors analyze specifics diversity disciplinary approaches interpretations At same time, special attention is given factors interaction that contribute leveling interpretation differ...

Abstract Proceeding from a philosophical interpretation of negative theology as performatively undermining our seeming understanding the absolute and thereby evoking transformative experience, this paper emphasises significance by linking it to Karl Jaspers’ notion universal limit situation existence. Against background, an analysis mystical psychotic experiences shows how certain similarities ...

asha, meaning order and honesty as apposed to anarchy and hypocrisy is the most significant principle of the anciant persian religion . there are some events and tales they are coloured by the asha principle . the manifestation of asha in such cases is the result of a certain religious experience known as the exegetic experience . the exegetic experience is in fact a religious interpretation an...