Download or read book Mystical Moments and Unitive Thinking written by Dan Merkur and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merkur proposes an alternative to the traditional psychoanalytic explanation of mystical experiences as regression to the solipsism of earliest infancy. He does this by viewing unitive thinking as a line of cognitive development, and mystical moments as creative inspirations on unitive topics. Utilizing classical self-reports by Christian, Jewish, and Muslim mystics, Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, and modern Western peak experiences, Merkur argues that experiences of mystical union are manifestations of a broader category of psychological processes that manifest in scientific and moral thought, as well as in mysticism. Unconscious as well as conscious, unitive thinking is sometimes realistic and sometimes fantastic, in patterns that are consistent with cognitive development in general. Mystical moments of unitive thinking may be considered moments of creative inspiration that happen to make use of unitive ideas. Building on the psychoanalytic object-relations theory that the self is always in relationship with an object, Merkur argues that the solipsism of some varieties of mystical union always implies unconscious ideas of a love object who is transcendent.

Download or read book Tarot of Mystical Moments written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular inspirational artist Catrin Welz-Stein has created a magical tarot deck in her signature collage style with lush images drawn from her intuition and imagination. This unique 83-card deck, with a distinctively feminine point of view, includes five bonus cards: extra female versions of the four Kings and the Emperor. Readers can customize the deck by choosing which cards to include in their readings. Tarot of Mystical Moments features gilded edged cards and a 96-page guidebook with upright and reversed meanings.

Download or read book Mystical Moments and Unitive Thinking written by Daniel Merkur and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the psychoanalytic object-relations theory that the self is always in relationship with an object, Merkur argues that the solipsism of some varieties of mystical union always implies unconscious ideas of a love object who is transcendent.

Download or read book Soulphoria written by Alessandra Sagredo and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-27 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women everywhere are exploring their spirituality and having exciting, unfettered, euphoric experiences. Soulphoria is a mystical state of bliss that requires you to open the channels of your mind, body, and soul. Each forms a bridge for the energy of your spirit to fly forth like a phoenix and burn brightly in the present moment. It's a heat that sears through you yet doesn't burn, and instead fuels your love of life.

Download or read book The Mystic s Way for Regular People written by James C. Alexander and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many are searching for a deeper spiritual life. Yet, often seekers don't really know where to begin. In this short book, James Alexander demystifies the mystical journey. Realizing that the mystics have much to offer those searching for a richer spiritual life, and yet that not everyone is called to a monastic life, Alexander offers a path for everyday mystics. If you have been wanting "something more," but don't know how to go about it, this book is for you! Characteristics of the mystical journey as well as practices that will deepen your spiritual life and relationships with others are presented in an inviting, doable way. The mystic's way is a reality for everyone. This book offers a starting point for a fuller, richer experience of God that will encourage you and excite you. Discover a path that has enriched the life of many followers of Jesus—both now and in the past. The journey awaits you. Now is the time to begin!

Download or read book The New Kitchen Mystic written by Mary Hayes Grieco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with timeless insights and poignant personal stories, The New Kitchen Mystic offers healing words of wisdom about enlightenment, fulfillment, and hope. In these rich, poetic essays, Mary Hayes Grieco serves up solid how-to advice about forgiveness, intuition, and good habits for today’s spiritual seeker. On your break or at bedtime, in the bathtub or at the bus stop, Grieco soothes your mind and brightens your spirit with fresh philosophy and delightful storytelling. Spark your creativity, increase your peace, and learn to bring magic to the mundane. The New Kitchen Mystic is sure to become the spiritual companion you’ll revisit again and again and share like your favorite recipe. This book includes audio of Mary reading from her favorite moments in The New Kitchen Mystic.

Download or read book Oracle of Mystical Moments written by Catrin Well-Stein and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary collage artist Catrin Welz-Stein intermixes unexpected elements of nature and imagination, creating a sumptuous world where flower spirits and floating castles happily co-exist. Each of the 52 oracle cards captures a magical moment full of delightful surprises and vintage charm. Powerful messages in the 44-page guidebook lead you into discoveries of insight that inspire new ways of looking at life.

Download or read book Psychoanalysis Mysticism and the Problem of Epistemology written by Alice Bar Nes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents key psychoanalytic theories from a fresh perspective: that of the mystical element. The author explores the depth-structure of central assumptions in psychoanalytic theory to uncover the mystical core of conventional analytic thinking. Exploring authors from Freud and Ferenczi, through Bion and Winnicott, to contemporary voices such as Ogden, Bollas and Eigen, the book shows that psychoanalysis has always operated on the assumption of psychic overlap, a "soul-to-soul" contact, between patient and analyst. Surprisingly, the book shows how this "magical" facet goes hand in hand with a pragmatic worldview that explores the epistemological complexities of psychoanalysis in search of a way to join the subjective, even the mystical, with the practical aim of serving as a validated mental health discipline. This is accomplished through an interdisciplinary and intertextual encounter between psychoanalysis and the innovative pairing of William James’ pragmatic philosophy and Martin Buber’s dialogic thought. The author's paradoxical stance surrounding the nature and role of psychoanalysis and its mystical facet resonate the great challenge embedded in Winnicott's insistence on tolerating paradox and Bion's demand to respect all parts of the (psychoanalytic) truth, in this case, the practical and mundane alongside the mystical and magical. The book’s broad, interdisciplinary outlook will captivate both psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic therapists as well as scholars of philosophy.

Download or read book Human Survival and Consciousness Evolution written by Stanislav Grof and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the apocalyptic prospect of global nuclear destruction, there are other dismal scenarios involving resource and environmental issues that are less imminent but still serious in the long term. Past analyses, seeking remedies, have focused on symptoms rather than causes. They represent extensions and expressions of the same philosophies and strategies that created these situations. This book brings a fresh and optimistic perspective to the problem area. It explores modern consciousness research and transpersonal psychology for practices that accelerate the development of consciousness. It covers a wide range from laboratory techniques of experimental psychiatry, transpersonal psychotherapies, and Jungian psychology to the Oriental and Western mystical traditions.

Download or read book Survival Manual for the Modern Mystic written by Linda Silk and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This metaphysical survival guide is a self-help manual that encourages body, mind, and spirit to leap joyfully into the Golden Age of Enlightenment. Survival Manual for the Modern Mystic answers dozens of questions challenging todays thinkers about the predictions of the Mayan Calendarwhich is understood to end on December 21, 2012. Whats next? Will there be survivors? How can you prepare and care for loved ones and yourself during the birthing of the New Age? Are all humans going to be at risk at the end of civilization as we know it? How can you be of service to humanity during the transition from the Kali Yuga Age into the Golden Age of Enlightenment? Survival Manual for the Modern Mystic teaches essential metaphysical survival tools for the twenty-first century. Author Linda Silk shares her own experiences and offers practical and spiritual information, as well as reliable approaches, to help you become a successful participant in the new Golden Age. With each chapter, measure your personal growth of body, mind, and spirit. Implement specific survival toolsand find yourself not merely surviving, but instead vibrating with the realization of how loving and powerful you are as a Modern Mystic. Learn how to become the New World and Golden Age change that you have been waiting for. Now more than ever, the Modern Mystics duty is to: think sustainably, act locally, support globally, and respond universally.

Download or read book The Journey Home written by Phillip L. Berman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Message of the oneness of creation and the Divine spark within us all, forms "an eternal theology."

Download or read book T S Eliot Mystic Son and Lover written by Donald J. Childs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon manuscript sources and the uncollected prose writings, as well as the published works, this is a profound exploration of Eliot's life-long preoccupation with mysticism. The author advances new readings of the familiar poems and essays through attention to Eliot's concern in poetry and prose with his roles as mystic, son and lover.

Download or read book Mapping Horizons written by Abhinav Agarwal and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-08-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I present to you, my life, my goals, my highs, and my lows. It is a journey of my truths in life so you learn from mistakes and grasp about life from my successes. Who am I? I am Abhinav, just another 18-year-old with dreams that exceed the horizons of the imagination. Why would you read this book? This book presents you with the absolute hard truths of my life, objective tips, and tricks that might help you with your journey. This book is just another step towards my goals, to reach the unreachable, and to make quality education more accessible. I received a 100% scholarship to attend Stanford University. I lived the IIT dream, and I am a part of multiple organizations that enable me to learn more, educate myself and others every single day. This book is meant to act as a source of motivation, driving force, and guidebook for Indian students having a dream of studying abroad or any high school student in general. This is my story: How I evolved from a clueless, 13-year-old boy who was driven and blinded by the IIT dream to take the road hardly taken. With ups, where I scraped the sky, and downs, where I plummeted into the dark unable to see anything in daylight and wanting to see sunshine in the middle of the night, pursuing and chasing my goals day and night, I present to you the story of my life. I present to you Mapping Horizons: Solving the College Conundrum.

Download or read book A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability written by Jojo M. Fung and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a germinal effort that urges all religious and world leaders to savor the mystical spirituality, especially the cosmology and spirituality of sacred sustainability of the indigenous peoples. The power of indigenous spirit world is harnessed for the common good of the indigenous communities and the regenerative power of mother earth. This everyday mysticism of the world as spirited and sacred serves to re-enchant a world disillusioned by the unsustainability of destructive economic systems that have spawned the current ecological crises. Author Jojo Fung offers insight from his lived-experience and this book represents his effort to correlate the indigenous spirit world with Catholic Pneumatology and articulate the activity of God’s Spirit as the Spirit of Sacred Sustainability.

Download or read book Silence written by Joyce Ann Zimmerman and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2010 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's not often that we think about silence or its importance in living healthy, balanced, and productive lives. We especially need silence if we are to deepen our spiritual lives. This book understands the sacredness of practicing silence and explores how we can learn to incorporate it into both our prayer and everyday lives. Much more than a commentary on silence, this book invites readers throughout the text to stop, ponder, and be silent. It includes both reflection content and practice exercises for exploring how silence might become an everyday habit.

Download or read book The Visionary Moment written by Paul Maltby and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Visionary Moment, Paul Maltby draws on postmodern theory to examine the metaphysics and ideology of the visionary moment, or "epiphany," in twentieth-century American fiction. Engaging critically with the works of Don DeLillo, Jack Kerouac, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and William Faulkner, Maltby explains how the literary convention of the visionary moment promotes the myth that there is a superior level of knowledge that can redeem or regenerate the individual. He contends that this common-sense assumption is a paradigm that needs to be confronted and critiqued.

Download or read book Some Exponents of Mystical Religion written by Rufus M. Jones and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters of this book were given as a course of Lectures on the Modern Era Lectureship Foundation, at the University of Southern California, in April, 1929. The opening chapter is a fresh attempt to reinterpret the nature and significance of mystical experience. It carries on and aims to clarify my position in this field of religion. The other chapters are in the main historical illustrations through great personalities of the meaning and value of the mystical approach to God. It is believed that each chapter adds something further to the interpretation of mystical experience given in the first chapter, so that the book is essentially one coherent whole. - From the Introduction