Mystical Psychology
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There are certain thoughts - intimations - that will seem corny, or laughable, and therefore dismissed - and only seriously absorbed into the changing mind when felt, in the shelter of the quietly moving music of the soul. It is the... more
(Epígrafes): 1. Bibliografía escueta. 2. Introducción. 3. La cosa que conozco bien. 4. La cosa intuida. 5. La cosa que saben otros. 6. La cosa que sé a medias. 7. Dejando la cosa sin concluir.
Amidst the rich panoply of Jewish Kabbalah, Abraham Abulafia (1240-1291) resonates the most with modern, philosophically minded seekers of direct mystical experience. Abulafia was unique amongst Jewish mystics in providing precise... more
In the summer of 2013 at the Tibetan Center in Poolesville, Maryland the great Lama YangThang Rinpoche gave instruction on the practice of the great compassion, or as he described the practice, as being the practice of Absolute... more
It is not easy to understand the nature of the guru and understanding the nature of the guru can be bewildering. There is often bewilderment about the guru. One source of the bewilderment is that people think that the guru is an... more
The phenomenology of the unfolding elaboration of our capacity to know Being directly and as well as our experience to know Being through beings is the focus of this paper. I will focus on the phenomenological elaboration of our knowing... more
so clearly shows in his dissertation, between the 8 th and 14 th centuries there were illuminating phenomenological distinctions that were considered essential to understand the great perfection practice of awareness, becoming aware of... more
Carl Jung describes how the human unconscious is the hidden cosmological archetypal dimension of our being in the world. There is the personal unconscious that reflects personal history and experience either forgotten or foreclosed. There... more
For much of my personal and professional life I have had an enduring interest in the distinction between mind and awareness. As my education unfolded over these many years, I have been happy to recognize that this distinction between mind... more
Ensaio e meditação sobre a apreensão da verdade por meio de símbolos na recordação do coração, sua relação com a mistagogia, com a percepção da beleza e com o papel terapêutico da arte. A partir das idéias de vários místicos e filósofos... more
this paper focus on the nature of awareness being space as well as the nature of phenomena being space
This paper compares the analytic and experiential approaches to dreams in order to illuminate the intrinsic and necessary relationships between the two understandings. It describes how dream work reflects the bimodalness of symbolism,... more
The felt sense of whoness is not a me-ness…me is self-fixation and in fact the sense of whoness can free us from objectified self-fixation. The sense of me often replaces the sense of who. When the experiential nonconceptual felt sense of... more
Doctoral Dissertation for Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.,1998. 333 pp.
The lucidity of awareness is experienced directly through the doorway of our subjectivity as our own innermost awareness. As we gaze into our own interiority we can experience the unfolding of the manifestation of this field of radiance... more
In this practice of becoming aware of our own awareness, the qualities of this awareness, of this field become more and more manifest...more known and more felt as a felt sense. The felt sense of the presence of awareness becomes... more
Being within awareness as awareness and being with another who is within awareness is a most powerful skillful means to bring forth awareness within one's self and within each other. Two awarenesses are better than one, just as self... more
This short essay explores the relationship between spirituality and mysticism. It deals with the topic in an interdisciplinary way by referring to the findings of modern psychology and psychotherapy. Therapy and the care or... more
In the present article I argue, that our understanding of mysticism in general has its origin in Christian-theological framework. If some scholars are able to decide whether there is one or more mysticisms, there has to be a common... more
By becoming aware of awareness we can experience the innermost sense or the felt sense of spaciousness and self-illumination. Within this state of open awareness, the openness of spacious luminous awareness, we can enter the experience of... more
Comunicação apresentada na " I JORNADA DE MÚSICA E RELIGIOSIDADES - PUCPR" . Como compreender em profundidade o efeito do canto gregoriano na alma e o significado dos seus modos? Para responder essa e outras questões a pesquisa que... more