Sentences with phrase «for mystical experiences»

None of this work is without controversy, but an increasing number of scientists now think that our brains are wired for mystical experiences.

The Pentecostal movement has a prominent place for mystical experiences in the life of the Church.

Paper says that light is the most common element of description for the mystical experience.

To the greatest interiority of the act corresponds the greatest exteriority of the sign: «For the apprehension of the divine, the divestment (depouullement) essential for mystical experience and the link of the divine to a historic manifestation are mutually complementary.

There is no room for the mystical experience which transcends theology.

Panikkar's preference for mystical experience seems to be satisfied with just this.

For a mystical experience, there's nothing quite like a visit to the ATM Cave (Actun Tunichil Muknal), in western Belize near San Ignacio Cayo District.

For a mystical experience, Bulusan Lake is highly recommended.

Not exact matches

The mountain continues to have an almost mystical attraction for many who have little or no experience of serious climbing.

For the most mystical of Pentecostals, the height of spirituality is an ineffable, ecstatic experience of intimacy with God.

As with the mystical tradition in general, the danger is that the Pentecostal mystical experience becomes a mere escape from the world rather than a preparation for a purposeful reinsertion into the world.

Mystical experience opened other channels for thought of God.

The stress on action over against teaching (the kerygmatic tradition) and religious experience (the mystical tradition) is significant, for it ties in directly with the way of the parables.

There was no artificial distinction between dogma, feeling, experience, and work, or Jesus as Savior, nourishment, teacher, or brother to work with or for... I go back to Luther talking about his mystical time.

The longing to belong in some ultimate sense, to feel an at - homeness in the universe is satisfied for many in worship which reawakens the awareness of «the mystical unity which underlies all human life» (Cyril Richardson) This experience is energizing, feeding, and healing; it overcomes the sense of cosmic loneliness, the feeling expressed by a mental hospital patient: «I'm an orphan in the universe.»

The key to Calvin's vibrancy is linking desire for God with a homey simplicity that mirrors both the great Christian tradition of mystical experience and the small - town sensibilities of historic American Protestantism.

, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)

People have been eating, smoking, drinking, and injecting various chemicals for thousands of years and had all sorts of «mystical» experiences as a result.

I doubt that Orthodox faith communities are any easier to abide in than Catholic or Protestant communities when it comes to the mundane experiences of life; but at least those of us with mystical tendencies would not be attacked for being «pietistic» as we so often are in most Protestant, even many Catholic, excesssively rationalistic and legalistic Latin / Western Churches.

The experience of the first rite of passage for the women clergy I have talked with varies from the male experience in the following ways: The young woman is likely to have a similar inner experience of a mystical «call,» or in some other way feel led to make a conscious decision to train for the ministry.

It helps to satisfy his need for experiences in which he transcends his finitude and receives mystical life.

«For the apprehension of the divine,» he says, «the letting go essential to mystical experience and the liaison of the divine to a historical manifestation are complementary to each other.

Meanwhile here is the abridged record of another mystical or semi-mystical experience, in a mind evidently framed by nature for ardent piety.

I see no consistent basis within the framework of Hall's own thought for asserting that this particular kind of experience is somehow «illegitimate,» that its aesthetic quality is greatly inferior to that which results from the experience of art or nature or interpersonal relationships or even of mystical contemplation.

For purposes of time, we shall center our summary of Aurobindo's mystical experience only on the first of these realizations.

Call it «mystical» if you like — though that surely is not a very good description of it — but whatever the true and adequate word for this tremendous apostolic experience, it is perfectly clear that the earliest Christianity we know had a twofold basis, and stood upon two feet, history and experience.

For Augustinians there is never an absolute disjunction between intellectual and mystical experience, for all experience has the power and truth of God's being as its grouFor Augustinians there is never an absolute disjunction between intellectual and mystical experience, for all experience has the power and truth of God's being as its groufor all experience has the power and truth of God's being as its ground.

The domain of religion has to do for the most part with other sorts of experience such as the sense of being forsaken, forgiveness, caring for, having courage, sensing an at - one - ness with the universe and many others, including what some call mystical experience.

For example, a curriculum that seems to privilege courses having to do with religious experience, worship, spirituality, counseling, and the like over, say, systematic and philosophical theology may reveal a commitment to the assumption that God is understood effectively rather than discursively; while a curriculum relatively more rich in offerings in ethics, sociology of religion, liberation theology, and the like than in offerings in historical theology, patristics, liturgics, and mystical traditions may reveal a commitment to the view that God is better understood in action than in contemplation.

God, for our pantheists, is experienced in some vaguely mystical way as the absence of personal reality, as the losing of oneself in some kind of divine oceanic whole.

The fact that mystery bears the character of futurity, however, does not make prophetic religions less mystical than any others, if by mysticism we mean a longing for and experience of union with ultimate reality.

His notes and commentary for the lectures show the vivid mixture of personal experience of an almost mystical kind, and the sharply intellectual solution to the theological problems.

For, the first chapters of the Book of Genesis were never meant to be taken as history or science, as «eyewitness» accounts, either of God or of someone impossibly «interviewing» God, but as a spiritual, theological, and mystical statement about God's relationship with the world; as an «aetiological myth,» to use Rahner's phrase, that provides an explanation, based on the human author's contemporary experience, of how things must have gotten to be the way we see them.

Donaldson gives us a new structure for looking at the human mind in which religious and mystical experience find their niche.

Near - death experiences are often thought of as mystical phenomena, but research is now revealing scientific explanations for virtually all of their common features.

Psychedelic mushrooms have for millennia been said to trigger mystical experiences.

Utilizing classical belly dance as a foundation, Mystical Dance ® weaves together tantric theory, chakra energy work, yoga, meditation and sacred dance traditions to create a unique and transformational Shakti experience for all women, regardless of dance level.

Practice asana from the «mind of the endocrine system» for a unique and powerful experience as we go even deeper into the mystical aspects of our nervous systems.

How exactly he's going to fit into the MCU puzzle is still a closely guarded secret, but one thing will be certain: Audiences will be in for a mind - bending experience as the good doctor (played by Benedict Cumberbatch) is the master of the mystical arts.

Harry also learns that he's famous in mystical circles: Though his parents were murdered by a rogue wizard so wicked he's generally referred to as «You Know Who,» the infant Harry survived with only a lightning bolt - shaped scar on his forehead to show for the experience.

Cancun offers experiences for travelers of all ages — from trendy nightlife and sprawling market - bazaars to crystal - clear cenotes and mystical Mayan ruins.

He works primarily in painting and performance art, and is interested in art - making as a vehicle for philosophical exploration and mystical experience.

Kounellis, who died last year at the age of 80, was a key figure in the Arte Povera movement, best known for sculptures and installations that invoke the contemporary world of politics and things, industrial and natural, while conjuring experiences that border on the mystical.

Bonding has at times been portrayed as an almost mystical experience for mothers following the birth of their child.