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Metaphysical theory
Rational mysticism, which encompasses both rationalism and mysticism, is a term used by scholars, researchers, and other intellectuals, some of whom engage
Rational_mysticism
American philosopher
1960s, including two series of Gifford Lectures, Findlay developed rational mysticism. According to this mystical system, "the philosophical perplexities
J._N._Findlay
Classical Greek word for mystical oneness
Lexicon (LSJ) Moksha Monolatrism Neoplatonism and Gnosticism Nondualism Rational mysticism Self-realization Theosis (Eastern Orthodox theology) LSJ entry for
Henosis
Christian mystical practices
Christian mysticism is the compendium of traditions of mysticism, mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation
Christian_mysticism
1934–1948 socialist caucus within the Indian National Congress
in 1934 by Congress members who rejected what they saw as the anti-rational mysticism of Gandhi as well as the sectarian attitude of the Communist Party
Congress_Socialist_Party
Traditions of human transformation aided by religious experiences
Mysticism encompasses religious traditions of human transformation aided by various practices and religious experiences. Popularly, mysticism is used
Mysticism
American science journalist
artificial intelligence and other mind-related fields. For his 2003 book Rational Mysticism, he profiled a number of scientists, mystics, and religious thinkers
John_Horgan_(journalist)
Mystic practices in Islam
defined as "Islamic mysticism", "the mystical expression of Islamic faith", "the inward dimension of Islam", "the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam", the
Sufism
Speculation about Nazism and occultism
1930 and that the problem of unemployment would be solved in 1931. Nazi mysticism in German culture is further expanded in an article by Manfred Nagl [de]
Occultism_in_Nazism
Different forms of mysticism in Jewish history
Jewish mysticism, especially since Gershom Scholem's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941), draws distinctions between different forms of mysticism which
Jewish_mysticism
Psychotherapy
Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT), previously called rational therapy and rational emotive therapy, is an active-directive, philosophically and
Rational emotive behavior therapy
Rational_emotive_behavior_therapy
pantheism Cosmotheism Naturalistic pantheism Natural religion Post-theism Rational mysticism Religion of Humanity Church of Humanity Secularism Jewish secularism
List of religions and spiritual traditions
List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions
Epistemological view centered on reason
Positivism Psychological nativism Rational choice theory Rational expectations Rational mysticism Rational realism Rationality and Power Realistic rationalism
Rationalism
Prison in Concord, Massachusetts
(4). Winter 1999–2000. Retrieved 2007-10-16. Horgan, John (2003). Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality. Houghton
Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Concord
Massachusetts_Correctional_Institution_–_Concord
2004 book by Sam Harris
he does not admit any supernatural element into his argument – "mysticism is a rational enterprise", he contends, "religion is not". He later elaborates:
The_End_of_Faith
Concept in religious anthropology
Perennial philosophy – Idea that all religions share a single truth Rational mysticism – Metaphysical theory Spiritual but not religious – PhilosophyPages
Natural_religion
American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and writer (1946–2000)
University Press. p. 138. ISBN 978-0-19-803849-8. Horgan, John (2004). Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment. Houghton
Terence_McKenna
Hasidic Jewish dynasty
mystical teachings using logical reasoning (creating a kind of Jewish "rational-mysticism"). Shneur Zalman's main work is the Tanya (or Sefer Shel Beinonim
Chabad
Abnormal state of wakefulness or altered state of consciousness
and government use which he terms "trance abuse". John Horgan in Rational Mysticism (2003) explores the neurological mechanisms and psychological implications
Trance
1980 book by Michael Persinger
assertions of Transcendental Meditation. John Horgan, in his book Rational Mysticism, questions Persinger's neutrality and says that in his book he treats
TM_and_Cult_Mania
Argument for the existence of God
or deity is justified, for example the flying spaghetti monster. Rational mysticism The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James Rudolf Otto
Argument from religious experience
Argument_from_religious_experience
School of thought in Fascist Italy
Fascist mysticism (Italian: Mistica fascista) was a current of political and religious thought in Fascist Italy, based on Fideism, a belief that faith
Fascist_mysticism
Month of 1943
1943 attribution: William Rafti attribution: Stepan John Horgan, Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment (Houghton
April_1943
Overview of and topical guide to metaphysics
(philosophy) Predeterminism Process philosophy Projectivism Quietism Rational mysticism Reductionism Revisionary materialism Scientific realism Scotistic
Outline_of_metaphysics
German philosopher and anthropologist (1804–1872)
Critique of Hegel's Philosophy", he described Hegel's system as "rational mysticism", criticizing it for eclipsing material reality and advocating a return
Ludwig_Feuerbach
Type of Jewish mysticism
'acceptation') is an esoteric method, discipline, and school of thought in Jewish mysticism. It forms the foundation of mystical religious interpretations within
Kabbalah
American nonprofit organization
Pollan. Retrieved 2025-07-07. Pollan 2018, p. 39. Horgan, John (2004). Rational Mysticism: Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment. HMH.
Council on Spiritual Practices
Council_on_Spiritual_Practices
1998 book by James H. Austin
consciousness. Austin wrote a follow-up, Zen-Brain Reflections. Neurotheology Rational mysticism James H. Austin, Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation
Zen_and_the_Brain
greatest figures of 20th-century Anglicanism" John Niemeyer Findlay 1924 rational mysticism Rhodes Scholar Professor of Philosophy, KCL/Yale/Boston J. L. Austin
List of philosophers associated with Balliol College, Oxford
List_of_philosophers_associated_with_Balliol_College,_Oxford
American philosopher
Philosophy Documentation Center (2011). "True Infinity and Hegel's Rational Mysticism: A Reply to Professor Williams". Owl of Minerva. 42 (1): 123–135.
Robert M. Wallace (philosopher)
Robert_M._Wallace_(philosopher)
fundamental questions (such as mysticism, myth) by being critical and generally systematic and by its reliance on rational argument. It involves logical
Outline_of_philosophy
French philosopher (born 1946)
Grasset, 2020)] Christian existentialism Postmodern Christianity Rational mysticism Givenness – Quality of information that is assumed to be known to
Jean-Luc_Marion
Behavior linked to spiritual pursuits
History, Literature, Philosophy and Practice Horgan, John (2004), Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality, New
Divine_madness
Inexplicable or secret religious phenomena
normal rational or scientific means. A mystagogue or hierophant is a holder and teacher of secret knowledge in the former sense above, while mysticism may
Sacred_mysteries
Range of related ideas and movements that have developed in the Western world
has influenced, or contributed to, various forms of Western philosophy, mysticism, religion, science, pseudoscience, art, literature, and music. The idea
Western_esotericism
The history of Jewish mysticism encompasses various forms of esoteric and spiritual practices aimed at understanding the divine and the hidden aspects
History_of_Jewish_mysticism
Creation spirit in some schools of philosophy
ISBN 0-06-052378-6 Scholem, Gershom (1965). Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition. Jewish Theological Seminary of America. p. 72
Demiurge
Israeli philosopher and historian (1897–1982)
of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gerhard (Gershom) Scholem was born
Gershom_Scholem
Belief in the existence of a deity or deities
God with nature, and much closer to nature mysticism. In fact it is nature mysticism." "Nature mysticism, however, is as compatible with theism as it
Theism
Knowledge of the hidden or the paranormal
phenomena involving a 'hidden' or 'secret' agency, such as magic and mysticism. It can also refer to paranormal ideas such as extra-sensory perception
Occult
Ten emanations in Kabbalah
philosophy, which has sought to internalise the experience of Jewish mysticism into daily inspiration (devekut), this inner life of the sefirot is explored
Sefirot
School of kabbalah named after Isaac Luria (1534–1572)
Divinity, rooted in the Ein Sof, that transcend the revealed, rationally apprehended mysticism described by Cordovero. The system of Medieval Kabbalah becomes
Lurianic_Kabbalah
English Swedenborgian and politician
asylum. He was an opponent of capital punishment. Tulk elaborated a rational mysticism, which he found below the surface of Swedenborg's writings, as their
Charles_Augustus_Tulk
American psychologist (1913–2007)
24, 2007) was an American psychologist and psychotherapist who founded rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT). He held MA and PhD degrees in clinical
Albert_Ellis
1943 book by Georges Bataille
subject and object. Although Bataille draws extensively on Christian mysticism and apophatic theology, he refuses to identify the unknown disclosed by
Inner_Experience
in 1934 by Congress members who rejected what they saw as the anti-rational mysticism of Gandhi as well as the sectarian attitude of the Communist Party
History of democratic socialism
History_of_democratic_socialism
German-language work in economics and sociology by Max Weber
elements of behavior as factors of deviation from a conceptually pure type of rational action. For example a panic on the stock exchange can be most conveniently
Economy_and_Society
Branch of pure mathematics
properties of mathematical objects constructed from integers (for example, rational numbers), or defined as generalizations of the integers (for example, algebraic
Number_theory
Interpretation of out-of-body experiences
world – Ontological category in metaphysics Merkabah mysticism – School of early Jewish mysticism Metempsychosis – Transmigration of the soul Mindstream –
Astral_projection
Foundational work in Kabbalah literature
aspects of the Torah and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology. The Zohar contains discussions
Zohar
Max Weber's thesis on self-denial
Weber's typology of religion set off the distinction between asceticism and mysticism against that between inner-worldly and other-worldly ( ausserweltliche
Inner-worldly_asceticism
German polymath (1875–1965)
the interpretation of Pauline Christianity concern the role of Paul's mysticism of "being in Christ" as primary and the doctrine of justification by faith
Albert_Schweitzer
into vegetative, appetitive and rational elements, though he later distinguished further divisions in the rational faculty, such as the faculty of judgement
Faculties_of_the_soul
Ability to readily identify logical or mathematical truth
Logical Intuition, or mathematical intuition or rational intuition, is a series of instinctive foresight, know-how, and savviness often associated with
Logical_intuition
1932 book by Jacques Maritain
philosophy – or ‘rational knowledge,’ and part two discusses the degrees of knowledge for religious faith and mysticism – or ‘super-rational knowledge.’ Philosophy
The_Degrees_of_Knowledge
existentialism – Christian humanism – Christian neoplatonism – Christian mysticism – Christian philosophy – Chinese philosophy – Classical Marxism – Cognitivism
List_of_philosophies
Related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity
and the Stoics used the term to refer to the soul of the cosmos or the rational order of the universe, while ritual and myth depicted the divine in vivid
Divinity
Profound religious thought
contemplation was the term used in the Latin Church to refer to mysticism, and "'mysticism' is a quite modern word". In Christianity, contemplation refers
Contemplation
AI thought experiment
has been viewed as a version of Pascal's wager, which proposes that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God, regardless
Roko's_basilisk
Concept in philosophy, religion, rhetoric, and psychology
mysticism", or "reason vs imagination" or "conscious activity vs the unconscious". For Jung, logos represented the masculine principle of rationality
Logos
British academic on Eastern religions
Muslim Mysticism (1960, 1969) at 6–11. Zaehner credits (p.6) Dasgupta's Hindu Mysticism for the initial typology. Zaehner, Hindu and Muslem Mysticism (1960
Robert_Charles_Zaehner
German theologian, philosopher and comparative religionist (1869–1937)
should first do serious rational study of God, before turning to the non-rational element of God as he did in this book. In Mysticism East and West, published
Rudolf_Otto
Natural science during the Renaissance
underlying mechanisms occurring in nature that cannot be explained through rational knowledge. The lack of concrete evidence results in these mechanisms being
Natural_magic
American writer and public speaker
holography and the holographic paradigm relate to the fields of consciousness, mysticism, and science. In 1983, Wilber married Terry "Treya" Killam who was shortly
Ken_Wilber
Absence of belief in the existence of deities; the opposite of theism
"sophistry and illusion". Michael Martin argues that atheism is a justified and rational true belief, but offers no extended epistemological justification because
Atheism
Form of pantheism
God with nature, and much closer to nature mysticism. In fact it is nature mysticism." "Nature mysticism, however, is as compatible with theism as it
Naturalistic_pantheism
Third emanation in Kabbalah
intellect that does not stem from the rational process (it is either inspired or taught), Binah embodies the innate rational process within a person, working
Binah_(Kabbalah)
American philosopher and psychologist (1842–1910)
including epistemology, education, metaphysics, psychology, religion, and mysticism. Among his most influential books are The Principles of Psychology, a
William_James
reference, Kabbalah has been used to refer to the whole history of Jewish mysticism, but more accurately, and as used in academic Jewish studies, Kabbalah
List_of_Jewish_Kabbalists
English writer and philosopher (1894–1963)
Literature in 1962. Huxley was a pacifist. He grew interested in philosophical mysticism, as well as universalism, addressing these subjects in his works such
Aldous_Huxley
Theology reliant on rational and empirical arguments
day, used philosophy for support, and were among the first to pursue a rational Islamic theology, termed Ilm-al-Kalam (scholastic theology). The teleological
Natural_theology
as opposed to a mere rational and analytical understanding. Until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was referred to by the
Theological differences between the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church
Theological_differences_between_the_Catholic_Church_and_the_Eastern_Orthodox_Church
Canadian-American philosopher and writer (1901–1990)
Monica. After moving in with her, he very soon after became drawn to mysticism, esoteric philosophies and their underlying principles. In 1919, Hall
Manly_P._Hall
Nonconceptual awareness and interconnectedness
also be found in Taoist philosophy, and in Western philosophy, Christian mysticism, and Sufism. Nondualism is also used to refer to the satsang movement
Nondualism
Sufi scholar and Sunni philosopher (1165–1240)
considered to be a foundational figure in the development of Islamic mysticism. During his adolescence and early adulthood, he was exposed to numerous
Ibn_Arabi
Faith and rationality exist in varying degrees of conflict or compatibility. Rationality is based on reason or facts. Faith is belief in inspiration, revelation
Faith_and_rationality
Irrational algebraic number
because "the Hindu people" were "addicted more than any other to numeral mysticism", and therefore "sought to find in this approximation some connection
Square_root_of_10
Philosophical system
conceptualism), while Neoplatonism became a major influence on Christian mysticism in the West through Saint Augustine, Doctor of the Catholic Church, who
Platonism
Argument for the belief in God
gamble regarding the belief in the existence of God. Pascal contends that a rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of God and
Pascal's_wager
Philosophical idea or system which does not meet an expected set of standards
to develop transcendental idealism, calling this pseudo-philosophy and mysticism. Nicholas Rescher, in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy, described pseudo-philosophy
Pseudophilosophy
Belgian-American philosopher (1925–2022)
highlighted the importance of religious symbols, religious interiority and mysticism. He was a guest professor at the University of Louvain (KULeuven), St
Louis_Dupré_(philosopher)
Concept in metaphysics
endowed with a soul and reason, constructed by the demiurge according to a rational pattern expressed through mathematical principles. Plato describes the
Anima_mundi
Cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion
understanding is more highly valued than belief, and processes are oriented toward rational goals, as opposed to traditional society, in which "the world remains a
Disenchantment
Flemish Benedictine abbot and mystical writer (1506–1566)
spiritual writer associated with the transmission of late medieval Christian mysticism into the spirituality of the Catholic Reformation. As abbot of Liessies
Louis_de_Blois
French mystic and poet (died 1310)
mystic and the author of The Mirror of Simple Souls, a work of Christian mysticism dealing with the workings of agape (divine love). She was burnt at the
Marguerite_Porete
Ethical belief that actions are morally good only if they benefit others
rational) self-interest. Altruism ultimately depends on non-rational 'rationales,' on mysticism in some form..." Furthermore, he holds that there is a danger
Altruism_(ethics)
Magic used to invoke divine presence
be grasped with mental contemplation because the transcendent is supra-rational. Theurgy is a series of rituals and operations aimed at recovering the
Theurgy
Range of new religious beliefs and practices
affected both New Age concerns—through the convergence of science and mysticism and the global embrace of alternative medicine—to more general concerns
New_Age
Demons in Middle Eastern beliefs
demonic may also have a symbolic meaning: Rustam represents wisdom and rationality, fights the demon, embodiment of passion and instinct. Rustam's victory
Div_(mythology)
Doubt about God's existence
Between Faith and Reason in Religious Mysticism". In Pathak, Krishna Mani (ed.). Quietism, Agnosticism and Mysticism: Mapping the Philosophical Discourse
Agnosticism
Way of describing the divine by explaining what God is not
apophatic tradition is often, though not always, allied with the approach of mysticism, which aims at the vision of God, the perception of the divine reality
Apophatic_theology
French philosopher (1743–1803)
the probability that he was a Spanish Catholic), who taught a form of mysticism drawn from cabbalistic sources and endeavoured to found a secret cult
Louis_Claude_de_Saint-Martin
1964 book by Frances A. Yates
hermeticism with which the Renaissance was imbued, and the revived interest in mysticism, magic and Gnosticism of Late Antiquity that survived the Middle Ages
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Giordano_Bruno_and_the_Hermetic_Tradition
German writer
and Hegel) explored mysticism in many of his works, in which he defines a theory of truth as phenomenal and defying any rational explanation. Heidegger
Angelus_Silesius
Iranian poet, literary critic and translator
topics of critical thinking, organizational rationality, familiarity with Eastern and Western mysticism, Masnavi research, Hafezology, familiarity with
Abdolhamid_Ziaei
17th-century European spiritual movement
cryptically in terms of Qabalah, Hermeticism, alchemy, and Christian mysticism, subjects whose methods, symbolism, and allusions were ardently studied
Rosicrucianism
Belief that God and reality are identical
God with nature, and much closer to nature mysticism. In fact it is nature mysticism." "Nature mysticism, however, is as compatible with theism as it
Pantheism
French writer, librarian and theorist (1897–1962)
Émile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, and sustained engagement with Christian mysticism and apophatic theology. During the interwar period, Bataille edited the
Georges_Bataille
ignored by previous scholarship—the impact which pre-Christian and non-rational schools of thought had exerted on European society and culture was worthy
Academic study of Western esotericism
Academic_study_of_Western_esotericism
Form of psychotherapy
therapy Dialectical behavior therapy Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy Rational emotive behavior therapy Humanistic Emotionally focused therapy Existential
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
Eye_movement_desensitization_and_reprocessing
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