The Mystic Mind

Author : Crystal Love
Publisher : Vision
ISBN 13 : 9781904132516
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Mind written by Crystal Love and published by Vision. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on previously unpublished as well as newly discovered scientific data, this crucial work provides proof that the supernatural exists in everyday life. Arguing that mainstream scientists have imposed parameters on the human mind, this revolutionary book presents a case for why unexplained mystical and supernatural events need to be seriously examined. Providing parallels between modern science, religion, and a variety of healing modalities, it provides evidence for the truths of telepathy, out-of-body and near-death experiences, reincarnation, hypnosis, astrology, and hands-on healing. Appealing to both believers and the skeptics, the evidence forces a rethinking of supernatural phenomena and offers research the mainstream scientific community cannot deny.

Author : Jerome Kroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113429767X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Mind written by Jerome Kroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over 1,400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this illuminating study examines the relationship between medieval mystical experiences, the religious practices of mortification; laceration of the flesh, sleep deprivation and extreme starvation, and how these actions produced altered states of consciousness and brain function in the heroic ascetics. Examining and disputing much contemporary writing about the political and gender motivations in the medieval quest for a closeness with God, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in medieval religion or the effects of self-injurious behaviour on the mind.

Author : Andrew B. Newberg, Eugene G. D'Aquili
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451403749
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystical Mind written by Andrew B. Newberg, Eugene G. D'Aquili and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the mind experience the sacred? What biological mechanisms are involved in mystical states and trances? Is there a neurological basis for patterns in comparative religions? Does religion have an evolutionary function? This pathbreaking work by two leading medical researchers explores the neurophysiology of religious experience. Building on an explanation of the basic structure of the brain, the authors focus on parts most relevant to human experience, emotion, and cognition. On this basis, they plot how the brain is involved in mystical experiences. Successive chapters apply this scheme to mythmaking, ritual and liturgy, meditation, near-death experiences, and theology itself. Anchored in such research, the authors also sketch the implications of their work for philosophy, science, theology, and the future of religion.

Author : Jerome Kroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134297688
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Mind written by Jerome Kroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a database of over 1400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry applies modern biological and psychological research to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics.

Author : Kenneth Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875231532
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Mind written by Kenneth Walker and published by . This book was released on 1965-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary Lachman
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458729958
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Turn Off Your Mind written by Gary Lachman and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did a decade that dawned with the Age of Aquarius end in Altamont and the Manson Family bloodbath? The 1960s were a time of revolution - political, social psychedelic, sexual. But there was another revolution that many historians forget the rise of a powerful current that permeated pop culture and has been a central influence on it ever since. It was a magical revolution - a revival of the occult. Previously rejected and ridiculed beliefs took centre stage, reaching the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, saturating the the hippies and flower power, hitting the big screen with Rosemary's Baby and the bookshelves with Lord of the Rings. The Tarot. I Ching, astrology, Kabbala, yogis, witchcraft, UFOs, Aleister Crowley. Yin Yang and the Tibetan Book of the Dead now became the common currency they are today. But the vibes went bad, the auras darkened. Did that darker undercurrent win out? Gary Lachman here charts this explosion, its rise and fall, and its enduring legacy --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Author : Robert K. C. Forman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143840302X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness written by Robert K. C. Forman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1999-06-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an exploration of mystical texts from ancient India and China to medieval Europe and modern day America, Robert K. C. Forman, one of the leading voices in the study of mystical experiences, argues that the various levels of mysticism may not be shaped by culture, language, and background knowledge, but rather are a direct encounter with our very conscious core itself. Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness focuses on first-hand accounts of two distinct types of mystical experiences. Through examination of texts, recorded interviews, and courageous autobiographical experiences, the author describes not only the well-known "pure consciousness event" but also a new, hitherto uncharted "dualistic mystical state." He provides a thorough and readable depiction of just what mysticism feels like. These accounts, and the experiences to which they give voice, arise from the heart of living practices and have substance and detail far beyond virtually any others in the literature. The book also reexamines the philosophical issues that swirl around mysticism. In addition to examining modern day constructivist views, Forman argues that the doctrines of Kant, Husserl, and Brentano cannot be applied to mysticism. Instead he offers new philosophical insights, based on the work of Chinese philosopher of mind Paramartha. The book concludes with an examination of mind and consciousness, which shows that mysticism has a great deal to tell us about human experience and the nature of human knowledge far beyond mysticism itself.

Author : Karen A. Arkus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780917596018
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Trip Into the Mystic Mind written by Karen A. Arkus and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465606378
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Will: A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It happened recently to me, as I write, to see one afternoon lying on the side walk in the Via Calzaioli in Florence what I thought was a common iron screw, about three inches in length, which looked as if it had been dropped by some workman. And recalling the superstition that it is lucky to find such an object, or a nail, I picked it up, when to my astonishment I found that it was a silver pencil case, but made to exactly resemble a screw. Hundreds of people had, perhaps, seen it, thought they knew all about it, or what it was, and then passed it by, little suspecting its real value. There is an exact spiritual parallel for this incident or parable of the screw-pencil in innumerable ideas, at which well-nigh everybody in the hurrying stream of life has glanced, yet no one has ever examined, until someone with a poetic spirit of curiosity, or inspired by quaint superstition, pauses, picks one up, looks into it, and finds that It has ingenious use, and is far more than it appeared to be. Thus, if I declare that by special attention to a subject, earnestly turning it over and thinking deeply into it, very remarkable results may be produced, as regards result in knowledge, every human being will assent to it as the veriest truism ever uttered; in the fullest belief that he or she assuredly knows all that. Yet it was not until within a very few years that I discovered that this idea, which seemed so commonplace, had within it mysteries and meanings which were stupendously original or remarkable. I found that there was a certain intensity or power of attention, far surpassing ordinary observation, which we may, if we will, summon up and force on ourselves, just as we can by special effort see or hear far better at times than usually. The Romans show by such a phrase as animum adjicere, and numerous proverbs and synonyms, that they had learned to bend their attention energetically. They were good listeners, therefore keen observers. Learning to control or strengthen the Will is closely allied to developing Attention and Interest, and for reasons which will soon be apparent, I will first consider the latter, since they constitute a preparation or basis for the former. And as preliminary, I will consider the popular or common error to the effect that everyone has alloted to him or to her just so much of the faculty of attention or interest as it has pleased Nature to give—the same being true as regards Memory, Will, the Constructive or Artistic abilities, and so on—when in very truth and on the warrant of Experience all may be increased ad infinitum.Therefore, we find ignorant men complacently explaining their indifference to art and literature or culture on the ground that they take no interest in such subjects, as if interest were a special heaven-sent gift. Who has not heard the remark, "He or she takes such an interest in so many things—I wish that I could." Or, as I heard it very recently expressed, "It must be delightful to be able to interest one's self in something at any time." Which was much the same as the expression of the Pennsylvania German girl, "Ach Gott! I wisht I hat genius und could make a pudden!"

Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781727777949
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystic Will written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past few years the most serious part of the author's study and reflection has been devoted to the subjects discussed in this book. These, briefly stated, are as follows: Firstly, that all mental or cerebral faculties can by direct scientific treatment be influenced to what would have once been regarded as miraculous action, and which is even yet very little known or considered. Secondly, in development of this theory, and as confirmed by much practical and personal experience, that the Will can by very easy processes of training, or by aid of Auto-Suggestion, be strengthened to any extent, and states of mind soon induced, which can be made by practice habitual.