In this qualitative phenomenological study, the researcher interviewed 18 hospitalised patients and community members in rural Appalachia to learn about their mystical experiences in the context of health care. A loosely structured interview format addressed factors that initiate mystical experience and essential qualities of mystical experience. In addition, the researcher examined the nursing process, focusing on assessments and actions which supported the participants in sharing their experiences. The researcher also considered her response to being the recipient of these shared experiences. Data were analysed using the crystallisation/immersion method and concept mapping. Mystical experience was conceptualised as a process incorporating initiation, occurrence, maturation, and integration of mystical experience. Essential aspects of the mystical experience itself were found to include sensory-motor perception, interaction with the supernatural, interaction with dead and living members of the family, conviction of reality, cognition, dynamic tension and emotional intensity. Nursing actions which supported the participant included listening and support. The researcher's response to the participants' sharing their experiences included tension, intimacy and empathy, sense of awe and autonomic responses. In addition, the researcher developed an appreciation of the mystical in everyday experience. / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

This study explores an interpretation of mysticism as a way of life that is a response to what the mystic conceives of as ultimate reality. The suggestion is that what lies at the centre of reality is the sense of a dynamic non-dialectic absence/presence. Mysticism is suggested to be an exploration of this centre of reality that takes the form of a conjoined movement of transcending and integrating. The argument of the study is developed in light of the contemporary approach that has made mysticism either totally grounded in the mystic's socio-linguistic context (Steven T. Katz) or detached from it in a 'pure consciousness event' (Robert K. C. Forman et al), both of which are primarily driven by a focus on mysticism as an experience. What is judged to have been overlooked in the contemporary discussion is that which is argued as being most endemic to mysticism, that is, the explorative life-enactment of that which the mystic conceives of as ultimate reality. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M.A. (Religious Studies)

Vive-se atualmente uma cultura marcada pela satisfação dos desejos individuais. Esse fato tem influenciado diversos aspectos da vida em sociedade, dentre eles, do campo da religiosidade. O presente trabalho investiga a subjetividade humana para que, situando o homem na contemporaneidade, imerso na efemeridade de relações e atitudes, seja verificada como a espiritualidade se apresenta em sua vida. A partir de uma releitura do fenômeno religioso e de um novo olhar sobre essa experiência que você não sabe de onde vem, nem para onde vai 1, considerada aqui segundo a visão de Vannini (2005) uma experiência do espírito, a religiosidade entra na vida das pessoas não mais como uma experiência ilusória e enganadora como foi preconizada por muito tempo. Ela passa a atender a novas demandas solicitadas por esse novo homem.

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo estudar o fenômeno da mística, em seu caráter universal, tendo como ponto de partida a vida de Dom Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, no período de seu nascimento, em 1928, até a sua nomeação episcopal em 1975. A escolha de Dom Marcelo se deu por reconhecimento de um legado bastante importante para a Igreja do Brasil, ele que tinha como base uma profunda espiritualidade e um senso de responsabilidade sobre o universo circundante. Para tanto foram analisados referenciais teóricos, bem como depoimentos e material de uso pessoal de Dom Marcelo. Os depoimentos foram colhidos a partir de um questionário previamente enviado aos entrevistados e relatos livres. Considerando a efemeridade com que vive a sociedade pós-moderna e falta de referenciais que lacuna o tempo hodierno, olhar para a vida desse grande homem, deve servir não apenas de fonte intelectual, mas de itinerário de vida.

A presente tese focaliza a questão da individuação espiritual na obra de Henry Corbin, valendo-se de pontos da obra de Heidegger que iluminam essa questão. Heidegger foi um dos filósofos que mais influenciaram Corbin, sendo que este foi o primeiro tradutor de Heidegger para o francês. No entanto, não é o propósito da tese demonstrar essa influência, embora muitas vezes o faça. O que importa é se valer das idéias de Heidegger que parecem equivaler às de Corbin, para ajudar-nos na anãlise da questao do exílio e da individuação. Conceitos de Heidegger tais como hermenêutica, fenomenologia, o Dasein, o Ser, a Superação da Metafísica, o Impessoal (das Man), a decisão pela Autenticidade, pelo ser si-mesmo mais próprio, colocam-se em cena ao longo da tese para colaborar com o aprofundamento da compreensão da individuação espiritual em Corbin. Parto da questão do exílio da alma em Corbin e nos místicos que este representa, tentando primeiramente levantar a etiologia de tal exílio, de tal disjunção alma-mundo. Para isso, lanço mão não só de Heidegger, mas também de Husserl, que foi bastante importante para Corbin. Em seguida, abordo, a partir da hermenêutica e da fenomenologia, a noção de imaginal e de hermenêutica espiritual, que equivale a uma interiorização e a uma integração do mundo na alma. Para isso, valho-me das noções de tempo e espaço na mística oriental de Corbin assim como na filosofia de Heidegger. O percurso desta primeira parte vai do exílio da alma no mundo do espaço quantitativo ao mundo vivido na alma, ou seja, a perspectiva da saída do exílio enquanto um retorno ao mundo da alma. A segunda parte, aborda o conceito de alma em Corbin e na mística sufi, que possui um caráter dual e pressupõe o conceito de anjo do sufismo, assim como o de Pessoa, que foi herdado por Corbin de Berdiaev, para então justapô-los ao conceito de Dasein de Heidegger e a verificação dos pontos onde os conceitos de Dasein e de Pessoa se encontram e se equivalem. A ideia de personalismo e autenticidade contrapõe-se em ambos autores ao nihilismo e ao Impessoal que oprime o homem moderno e o atira no exílio. Esta crise é apresentada na tese como um mundo sem alma assim como um mundo onde prevalece o esquecimento do ser, sendo que as indicações de superação de Heidegger e Corbin apontam para direções similares e às vezes complementares. A saída do Exílio tem como condição a tomada de consciência das consequências da despersonalização do mundo, do empobrecimento espiritual, e do perigo que o homem está correndo de desaparecer enquanto homem, enquanto Pessoa. A superação da crise, o retorno à casa, aparece em ambos ligada à capacidade de desconstrução de qualquer objetivação e na neutralização do caráter reificador e dominador do pensamento, que concorrerão para a reintrodução do transcendente, do inabarcável e misterioso, do espiritual na cotidianeidade e na visão de mundo do homem moderno. / This thesis focuses the question of spíritual individuation in Henry Corbin1s work, using the parts of Heideggers work which throw light on this question. Heidegger was one of the philosophers which most influenced Corbin, who was the first translator of Heideggers work in french. Nevertheless, it is not the purpose of this work to demonstrate this influence, although it becomes evident along the thesis. What matters here is is to take Heideggers ideas that seem to match to Corbins in order to help us in the analisis of the question of exile and of individuation. Heideggerian concepts such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, the Dasein, Being, the overcoming of metaphysics, the Impersonal (das Man), the will to authenticity to be one\'s very self, are employed throughout the thesis, so as to contribute to a better understanding of spiritual individuation in Corbin\'s philosophy. I take as my starting point the subject of the exile of the soul in both Corbin and the mystics whom he represents, first of all by attempting to trace the etiology of this exile, this disjunction between soul and world. To that end, I avail myself not only of Heidegger\'s philosophy, but also that of Husserl, which had a great deal of influence on the work of Corbin. I then address, with the help of hermeneutics and phenomenology, the concepts of imaginal and spiritual hermeneutics, which is equivalent to the interiorization and integration of the world into the soul. To that purpose, I utilize the notions of time and space in the oriental mysticism of Corbin and in Heidegger\'s philosophy. The first part then covers the trajectory of the soul from its exile in the world of quantitative space back to the lived world of the soul; in other words, the way of exile as a return to the soul-world. The second part covers both the concept of soul in Corbin and in Sufi mysticism, wich possesses a dual character and in Sufism pressuposes the concept of \"angel\", and that of Person, which Corbin inherited from Berdiaev, with the intention of contrasting these concepts with Heidegger\'s Dasein and verifying where they meet and are the same. In both authors, the ideas of personalism and authenticity are put in opposition to ninhilism and the Impersonal which oppresses man in the modern world and casts him into exile. In the thesis, this crisis is described in terms of a world devoid of soul, a world where the soul has been forgotten, and what Corbin and Heidegger appoint as the way to overcome it are many times similar and sometimes complementary. The way out of Exile has as its condition the awareness of the consequences of the de-personalization of life, of spiritual empoverishment, and of the risk man runs of diassappearing as man, as a person. In both Heidegger and Corbin, the overcoming of the crisis, the return home, is associated with the capability of desconstructing any sort of objectification and of neutralizing the reifying and imposing character of thought, which will collaborate with the re-introduction of the transcendent, the unfathomable, and the mysterious in the daily life and world view of modern man.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:48:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Acacio Nascimento Jr.pdf: 549825 bytes, checksum: 3f7cd9fcde1c76cf22b29f16becefb44 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-02-16 / The objective of the present work is to present the importance of the medieval Dominican monk Eckhart in the context of Christian mystic, mater that is as old as is it complex. It defends that in no other Christian mystic it reached such a visible position in part, because his Metaphysical position was based, differentially, in the neoplatonic dialect thought, and in part because, in his own time and also later, some of his asseverations about God are still to be understood. For this a historical-theological recapitulation was made on fundamental eckhartians emphases, the extension of the interdependence seen between theology and experience and how the mystic delineated and established by him marked his time and perpetuated, molding times and world-wide movements. This thought was mediated under the perspective of Christian phenomenology, and came to the conclusion that there is a verifiable platform, by which Meister Eckhart would have a guaranteed contribution to today s spirituality. / O objetivo do presente trabalho é apresentar a importância do monge dominicano medieval Eckhart no contexto da mística cristã, matéria tão antiga quanto complexa. Defende-se que em nenhum outro a mística cristã alcançou tanto destaque - em parte, porque sua posição metafísica baseou-se, diferenciadamente, no pensamento dialético neoplatônico, e em parte porque, no seu próprio tempo e também depois, algumas de suas asseverações sobre Deus ainda estão para ser entendidas. Para isso foi feita uma recapitulação histórico-teológica sobre as ênfases eckhartianas basilares, a extensão da interdependência vista entre teologia e experiência, e sobre como foi que a mística delineada e estabelecida por ele marcou seu tempo e perpetuou-se, moldando épocas e movimentos mundiais. Esse raciocínio foi mediado pela perspectiva da fenomenologia cristã, e chegou-se à conclusão que existe plataforma verificável, pela qual Mestre Eckhart teria contribuição garantida para a espiritualidade nos dias de hoje.

The aim of this thesis is to define, develop, and defend an interpretation and application of the mystical ontology of Meister Eckhart. Briefly, mystical ontology should be understood as a distinctive theology insofar as it presents God's being, the being of the world, and the individual's being as an essentially unified whole. My research focus for this thesis will then be to situate Eckhart's theology within current debates on mysticism and amidst the post-Kantian philosophical turn toward ontology. The cumulative effort of this thesis will reach its height when I apply my conclusions on the mystical nature of being that can be found in Eckhart's medieval writings and transcriptions in order to address the modern, theological problem of secularity. This effort will be implemented with the objective of creating a space for dialogue between Christian theology and the generally secularized culture that, in part, defines the present age. In so doing, this thesis will demonstrate the philosophical and cultural relevance of this particular understanding of the nature of being when treating modern problems in theology. The guiding question for this thesis will be the following: what insights can Meister Eckhart's thought offer to theologians today in addressing the problem of secularity? My overall thesis will then be: the mystical ontology of Meister Eckhart can be interpreted and applied in a manner that successfully opens a space for constructive dialogue between secular culture and the presence of God in the world. Overall, this thesis should be read as a scholarly project on Eckhartian theology and its applicability toward productively treating the problem of secularity. All of my conclusions will be derived as a result of having been situated and argued for amidst current debates on relevant topics, as well as in relation to other major works that are indispensable for such a project. To be clear, my aim will not be to appropriate Eckhart's work and to assimilate it to a post-Kantian perspective. Rather, I will look to Eckhart for his clear and definitive theological statements. I will then interpret those statements and apply them in a manner that efficaciously engages specific principles of secularity in demarcating a common ground for dialogue.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-01T18:12:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 marcelo_marques_santana_junior.pdf: 4363040 bytes, checksum: 29ac9dca8bfe2b4b608d8c05748a053a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-11-18 / This research aims to study the mystical phenomenon in its universal character, taking as its starting point the life of Don Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, from his birth in 1928 until his episcopal appointment in 1975. The choice of Don Marcelo was given for recognition of a very important legacy for the Church of Brazil, that it was based on a deep spirituality and a sense of responsibility on the surrounding universe. Therefore, were analyzed theoretical references, testimonials and personal material of Don Marcelo use. The testimonies were collected from a questionnaire previously sent to respondents and spontaneous reports. Considering the ephemerality that lives the post-modern society and the lack of references that the gaps today's time have, look at the life of this great man, should serve not only intellectual source, but itinerary of life. / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo estudar o fenômeno da mística, em seu caráter universal, tendo como ponto de partida a vida de Dom Marcelo Pinto Carvalheira, no período de seu nascimento, em 1928, até a sua nomeação episcopal em 1975. A escolha de Dom Marcelo se deu por reconhecimento de um legado bastante importante para a Igreja do Brasil, ele que tinha como base uma profunda espiritualidade e um senso de responsabilidade sobre o universo circundante. Para tanto foram analisados referenciais teóricos, bem como depoimentos e material de uso pessoal de Dom Marcelo. Os depoimentos foram colhidos a partir de um questionário previamente enviado aos entrevistados e relatos livres. Considerando a efemeridade com que vive a sociedade pós-moderna e falta de referenciais que lacuna o tempo hodierno, olhar para a vida desse grande homem, deve servir não apenas de fonte intelectual, mas de itinerário de vida.

abstract: Users of psychedelic drugs frequently report various types of healing effects after the experience has completed. How these substances actually do the healing work is still being understood. I argue that the phenomenology of the psychedelic experience is relevant to and doing at least some of the healing work. This occurs in part via the phenomenon of transformative experiences. Psychedelic experiences provide insight into first and second order desires of an individual. They alter an individual’s self-narrative and provide an ideal to aim for in addition to the motivation to achieve that ideal. Additionally, psychedelic experiences foster feelings of connection to other people and nature. This heals through altering an individual’s in-group/out-group perceptions and provide a sense of oneness which increases accurate perspective taking. The experience of ego-dissolution had under psychedelics can be compared to the ultimate transformative experience—death—which facilitates the healing process. These experiences promote social healing and serve as a reopening of previously closed possibilities due to trauma or mental illness. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Philosophy 2020

La théorie du comportement du consommateur s’est considérablement enrichie ces dernières années. Toutefois malgré une progressive intégration des éléments ayant trait au corps, aux émotions et aux affects, la question de l’animisme et des comportements y relevant reste impensée. Un faisceau d’indices probants inclinent pourtant à poser que certaines expériences de consommation seraient rattachables à cette vision du monde. L’objectif de cette thèse estdès lors d’en traquer les manifestations, notamment dans un environnement occidental prétendument acquis à une cosmovision naturaliste. A terme ce travail souhaite suggérer un renouvellement paradigmatique permettant d’intégrer cet impensé. / The purpose of our work is to investigate the concept of animism in marketing. The theory of the consumption’s behavior is almost totally dependent on the classic rationality. Now, in the reality, in situation of consumption – including research, data processing and decision -, actors mobilized other forms of rationalities. It’s the case with the animism behavior and mystical participation, still heard mythical, mythological, magical or symbolic thought, that emphasizing the contrast between the mainstream of classical thought and the strong reality hidden of behavior. In this perspective, we propose to build an island of rationality around these concepts. This new paradigm in marketing, looks promising for the study of those « forgotten » of the consumption’s behavior.