Epilogue: Watching for light: Spiritual psychology beyond materialism.

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Miller
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Psychology

Bringing Spirit Back In, the Vedic Way

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramashray Roy
Keyword(s):  
Modern Science ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian Psychology ◽  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
Strong Case ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Human Psyche

The author engages with recent attempts to develop an Indian psychology and develops a strong case for a spiritual psychology. The article discusses the evolution of the science in the West to point out that spirituality fell by the wayside because modern science accepted a model of man which denies its connection with the divine. Modern Indian psychology has also adopted this approach. Vedic texts are privileged by the author to argue for the fusion of psychological science and spirituality which are seen as complementary and also to understand human psyche and consciousness better.

Mullā Ṣadrā’s Arrivers in the Heart (al-Wāridāt al-Qalbiyya)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 53-107
Author(s):  
William C. Chittick
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
Divine Essence ◽  
Mulla Sadra ◽  
Human Love

Abstract It is increasingly difficult after Ibn ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) to differentiate the aims of the Sufis from those of the philosophers. Mullā Ṣadrā (d. 1050/1640) offers a fine example of a thinker who synthesized the Sufi and philosophical methodologies in his voluminous writings. In Arrivers in the Heart he combines the precision of philosophical reasoning with the recognition (maʿrifa) of God and self that was central to the concerns of the Sufi teachers. In forty “effusions” (fayḍ) of mostly rhymed prose, he provides epitomes of many of the themes that he addresses in his long books. These include the concept and reality of existence, the Divine Essence and Attributes, God’s omniscience, theodicy, eschatology, the worlds of the cosmos, spiritual psychology, divine and human love, disciplining the soul, and the nature of human perfection.

scholarly journals PSIKOLOGI SUFISTIK (Studi atas Pemikiran Sachiko Murata dalam Buku The Tao of Islam)

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erni Susilawati
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
Sanctity Of Life ◽  
Real Behavior ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

Sachiko Murata has developed many discourses of spiritual psychology asmentioned in her book The Tao of Islam. The writer found that the higheststage of Sufi which is to be united with God exists vertically betweenthe spirit, soul, mind and heart. Spirit is described as the highest innerdimension, which is connected to soul, as a part of the physical or bodystructure. The relationship between the soul and spirit raises other innerdimension that is the mind and heart. For a Sufi who has reached perfectionor sanctity of life, it also means to have a harmonious relationship betweenman's inner dimension, namely the achievement of happiness and peace ofmind which is reflected in real behavior. This is what Murata stated about ahealthy soul, a soul which is strongly influenced by the spirit or goodness.

Isaac of Stella (d. c.1177)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winthrop Wetherbee
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
Contemplative Life ◽  
Cosmic Model

Like other twelfth-century Cistercians, Isaac of Stella was well versed in secular learning. Centrally engaged with the contemplative life, he expresses his spiritual insights in terms of the science of his day, and combines a spiritual psychology derived from Johannes Scottus Eriugena and Hugh and Richard of St Victor with an anthropology grounded in Stoic physics, Greek and Arab medicine, and a cosmic model derived from Plato’s Timaeus. A unifying theme of his writings is the relation between the physical and spiritual dimensions of human experience.

scholarly journals The Quest for Today's Totemic Psychology: A New Look at Wundt, Freud and Other Scientists

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yueh-Ting Lee ◽  
Xiangyang Chen ◽  
Yongping Zhao ◽  
Wenting Chen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Psychology Students ◽  
The United States ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Survey Study ◽  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
The Past ◽  
Psychology Today ◽  
Clinical And Counseling Psychology

Totems are symbols or representations of human's affiliations with, and/or categorizations of, animals, plants and inanimate objects. Totemism is related to fundamental human belief systems based on totems. Investigating totems and totemism psychologically is a unique way to explore human minds. We have critically examined Wundt, Freud and many other scholars and scientists who made distinguished contributions to scientific research on totems and totemism almost in the past two centuries –i.e., totemic psychology, which is the study of our mind's categorization and affiliation in the human and natural world today. Understanding and appreciating their totemic psychology can help psychologists today enhance their understanding in other fields—e.g., ecological and environmental psychology, biological psychology, cognitive psychology, personality, social and ethnic psychology, clinical and counseling psychology, cultural psychology, and religious or spiritual psychology. Unfortunately, recent data from a content analysis via PsycInfo and a cross-cultural survey study (N=273) showed that well-trained psychologists around the world and psychology students in the United States and in China are unfamiliar with Wundt and Freud's totemic contributions to psychology today. The implications, benefits, and lessons of totems and today's totemic psychology are discussed here.

Conversion Psychology in John Donne's Good Friday Poem

1979 ◽  
Vol 72 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Terry G. Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
English Renaissance ◽  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
Good Friday ◽  
English Poet ◽  
Renaissance Period ◽  
Personal Nature

John Donne's “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward” is justly regarded as one of the finest devotional poems of the English Renaissance period. It is likewise significant for what it reveals about the theology of a major English poet and divine and, more broadly, for what it reveals about the spiritual psychology of his time. The personal nature of the poem, which was written during the troubled years before his ordination in 1615, underscores the force of its ideas for Donne. At the thematic center of the poem is a necessary connection between Godgiven corrective affliction and the sinful soul's turning to God.

THE SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL PSYCHOLOGY OF M.BEKEEV IN THE GENRE OF EVERYDAY LIFE

Keruen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (69) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zh. A. Axakalova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
Color Harmony

The article by Aksakalova Zh. А. "The Search for spiritual psychology of M.Bekeev in the genre of everyday life" is devoted to the work of the talented Kazakh artist Marat Bekeev, contributing to the development of the modern Kazakh art. The article is focused on the artistic creativity of the artist and widely analyzes the works on the theme of "childhood". Through the stylistic and comparative analysis of the works were identified peculiar features of the artist, the ability to create compositions and maintain color harmony. At the same time, it was identified philosophical, psychological, spiritual, ideological, and meaningful search for the main theme of the artist's work.

Soul — Anguish — Perfection: Oscar Wilde’s Dialogue with Kropotkin and Dostoevsky

2020 ◽  
pp. 112-126
Author(s):  
Svetlana Koroleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Disorder ◽  
Social Pain ◽  
Spiritual Psychology ◽  
The Way

Much has already been said about the ‘Russian theme’ in Oscar Wilde’s works. Yet the question concerning Russian sources of the motifs of anguish and the soul’s way to perfection has not yet been cleared up sufficiently. The article aims at defining the particular character of appropriating Petr Kropotkin’s philosophy of anarchism in Wilde’s works in the context of its reference to the notions of ‘Nihilism’ and ‘self-sacrifice’, and through them, to Dostoyevsky’s novels. The basic material of the research is Wilde’s essay ‘Man’s Soul under Socialism’ and his early play ‘Vera; or, The Nihilists’. The key method used in the research is comparative analysis (in the way it is used in comparative literature). The author argues that in these texts, the motifs of Christian self-sacrifice and anguish bring Nihilism (understood as Kropotkin-style anarchism) together with the spiritual psychology of Dostoyevsky and that the way to inner perfection in Wilde’s philosophy of individualism is connected with the concepts of soul, man, and society the writer formulates based on Kropotkin and Dostoevsky. Bringing the notion of ‘soul’ close to the notion of ‘socialism,’ defining Christ as a perfect personality, treating pain and anguish in contemporary society as a way to this sort of person-ality, and opposing inner feelings to outer morals, Wilde combines the philosophy of individ-ualism with the pathos of Kropotkin’s doctrine of anarchism: moral, even Christian at its core. He also adheres to the idea of resurrecting inner morals through anguish and compassion: the idea he appropriated from Dostoyevsky. As a result, in Wilde’s essay the doctrine of individ-ualism turns into a doctrine of the soul’s natural Christianity (holiness) and of resurrection in perfection through a ‘true Socialism.’ In Wilde’s play ‘Vera; or, The Nihilists’ the motifs of personal love and social pain, connected with social disorder and common unhappiness, con-stitute the very image of contemporary man’s way to personal perfection that is philosophical-ly described in his essay nearly ten years later.

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