Mysticism

of the scale termed as the Spiritual Intelligence Self-Report Inventory (SISRI-24) has been claimed to be outstanding in terms of internal reliability and suitability to the proposed model. Additional measures such as metapersonal self-construal, mysticism, religiosity, and social desirability that offer support for construct and criterion-related validity have been suggested (King, Mara, & DeCicco, 2012). Corresponding to the model presented, spiritual intelligence is characterized as “a set of…

even decades ahead of his time when it came to religion. When he was 13, he focused on the Talmud during the day and prayer at night; religion was his whole life (3). At the age of 15, Wiesel wanted to begin to study the Kabbalah, which is Jewish mysticism, that was also known as Zohar, a 13th century commentary on the Oral Torah. Normally, a man wouldn’t start the book until he was 30 years old: an age where a man can fully understand the text (4). Despite his father’s protest and disapproval,…

An Analysis of Youkahainen’s Character in the Kalevala There is an old saying that “to err is human.” For many, this could not be truer, especially when analyzing characters in ancient mythology. Aside from many of the eccentric worldviews they present, part of the reason current generations can still identify with these texts is because of the humanization of legendary characters and divine beings. By having these all-powerful characters display human emotions and experience tribulations,…

Introduction The reformation was an age of revelation, confusion and at times, chaos. One of the most significant people of this time was Martin Luther. Martin Luther was a man who struggled to understand salvation, forgiveness, and grace. Luther experienced a conflict between the forgiveness of sins, and being unable to do sufficient work in order to please God. Through his study of the scripture, and preparation of lectures, he eventually came to a life changing conclusion about God and…

Intersectionality is characterized as the connections among numerous dimensions of the identities and the modalities of social relations and encounters of prohibition and subordination, including sex, class, race, ethnicity, nationality and sexuality. It begins on the reason that everybody experience different, layered characters. The hypothesis endeavors to uncover the diverse sorts of segregation and impediments that happen as an outcome of the mix of organic, social and social characters.…

Jews. Like most Jews, Elie is religiously faithful, but unlike many he is also interested in the cabbala, which is a “mystical branch of Judaism teaching that God is the origin of the world” (Wiesel 1). Moshe the Beadle, his teacher in the ways of mysticism, is one of the first Jews collected from Sighet, due to being foreign. When he returns with stories of the horrible atrocities committed by the Germans, the naive residents of Sighet “take [him] for a madman” (4) and refuse to believe his…

Hildegard of Bingen was a great mystic who was able to understand the natural world through her visions. She lived during the 11th and 12th centuries, 1089 to 1179, and was a significant figure during this medieval period because she was able to gain recognition during a male oriented time frame of the Catholic Church (Singer 57). During her childhood she spent the majority of her time among the Benedictines, and was educated in the convent of Disibodenberg (Singer 57). Therefore, Hildegard was…

THEALCHEMY OF HAPPINESS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Abū Ḥāmid Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Ghazālī, abbreviated as Al-Ghazali (1058-1111 AD) was a standout amongst the most unmistakable and compelling logicians, scholars, law specialists and spiritualists of Sunni Islam. He comprehended the significance of falsafa. His incredible work of Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm advertisement dīn ("The Revival of the Religious Sciences") made Sufism a worthy piece of the conventional. Huge numbers of his well known works include: The…

Rudolf Otto (1869 - 1937) greatly contributed to the discussion of religious feeling and knowledge in attempting to characterize the “numinous” as an underlying core of all religious experiences. In his The Idea of the Holy (1917), Otto sought to explore the category of the Holy through what he referred to as the "numinous consciousness." This essay will first analyze his fundamental theory of the “numinous” experience, and then examine the notion of the “numen,” the object and source of the…

After reading Edward Said’s Orientalism, I understand why his piece has created such a visible legacy not only at Columbia but across academia. His ideas are revolutionary, striking at the foundations of academic institutions all over the world. As an individual, studying Islam and the Middle East of which my interests include Sufism, Sectarianism, and Fundamentalism, I am the product of orientalism, no doubt. As a member of this new generation of orientalists, however, what exactly is my…