Concept
Mysticism
Overview
religious experience where the soul reaches its highest degree of union with the sacred during earthly existence
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Through the practice of orison the higher levels of mystical experience may be attained. It is odd that Protestantism, especially evangelical Protestantism, should seemingly have abandoned everything methodical in this line.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
The chapter “LECTURES XVI AND XVII. MYSTICISM.” is titled for Mysticism; states what Mysticism is.
What is, in all cases, ethically characteristic of mysticism is absence of indignation or protest, acceptance with joy, disbelief in the ultimate truth of the division into two hostile camps, the good and the bad. This attitude is a direct outcome of the nature of the mystical experience: with its sense of unity is associated a feeling of infinite peace. Indeed it may be suspected that the feeling of peace produces…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
The chapter “MYSTICISM AND LOGIC” is titled for Mysticism; names Mysticism several times.
Yes, if you mean the commonest and most convincing, the _only_ convincing self-impartation of the ultimate good in the scale of goods; the vision of blessedness in God. For this doctrine is empirical; mysticism is the heart of all positive empiricism, of all empiricism which is not more interested in denying rationalism than in asserting itself. The mystical experience marks every man’s realization of the supremacy…
John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought
States what Mysticism is; names Mysticism.
Philosophers who discussed Mysticism
- Albert Schweitzer
- John Scotus Eriugena
- Keiji Nishitani
- Galen
- Abhinavagupta
- Gershom Scholem
- Henri Bergson
- Heraclitus
- Mircea Eliade
- Damascius
- Colin Wilson
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Simone Weil
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Meister Eckhart
- Joseph de Maistre
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
- Henry Corbin
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Julius Evola
Related ideas
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Erasmus
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Albert Schweitzer
- Ritual
- Arthur Danto
- Dvaita Vedanta
- Vishishtadvaita
- Jesus
- Persian language
- Francis of Assisi
- Greek language
- Sudden awakening
- Athens
- The Varieties of Religious Experience
- Gershom Scholem
- Gregory Palamas
- Hinduism
- Hindus
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Heraclitus
- Halakha
- Orphism
- Hesychasm
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Anthroposophy
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Eastern Orthodox theology
- Emanuel Swedenborg
- Exoteric
- Francis of Assisi
- Gregory Palamas
- Hesychasm
- Julian of Norwich
- Late Middle Ages
- Linji Yixuan
- Magic (supernatural)
- Mahamudra
- Mount Athos
- Pranayama
- Sādhanā
- Transfiguration of Jesus
- Xian (Taoism)
- Richard E. King
- Altered state of consciousness
- Tai chi
- Buddhism in Laos
- Symeon the New Theologian
- The Imitation of Christ