Mystical experience as an empirical fact: perception, meaning, insight

Louw Feenstra, Nico Tydeman

Resumen


This review is one step farther into our reflections on the fringes of epistemology. We started by analyzing the peculiarities of the senses and then moved into the conflicting worldviews of science and religion 1. In this review we try to bring some structure into the many views, contradictions and similarities about mysticism across cultures, which we—from the very start— take as special kind of perception. 

Key words. Illumination, meditation, mysticism, perception, religion.

 


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