Questions tagged [mysticism]
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Is there a version of the divine-hiddenness problem based specifically on the cognitive side of schizophrenia treatment?
Although to my knowledge mystical psychosis "by itself" is not a DSM listing, it is similar to symptoms of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, symptoms like delusions of reference and grandeur ...
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Is religious authority justified?
Is religious authority justified?
I mean religious broadly thought, as something that may be a mystic non-inferential claim (and I'm especially interesting in these).
An inference is the process of ...
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Is the bardo forever?
Consciousness as such is - I think - said to be made of vague parts; it has parts that are vague, e.g. the sensation of seeing red. I think this means that borderline cases of my consciousness exist ...
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Asking a question in the "True Language"
Definition: the True Language is so named not because it satisfies the concept from antiquity of a language whose expressions were naturally isomorphic to their referents in some essentialistic way, ...
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Is mysticism a confusion of language?
Is mysticism a confusion of language, in Wittgenstein's sense? You'd have thought it was, especially if it makes any positive claims. But does it not ever "show" things, ever?
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Secrets/Esotericism in Mysticism
Some Western mystical traditions have an element of esotericism or secrecy, restrictions on who can learn the mysteries and how. For example, Judaism traditionally restricts the Kabbalah to men above ...
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Does time have a changing speed?
Based on my own personal experiences and responses from other people I have questioned time is more than numbers.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems to me that it is a fact that pleasure speeds up ...
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According to early Wittgenstein, do we need language or thought for the mystical to show itself?
According to early Wittgenstein, do we need language or thought for the mystical to "show itself"?
He does say the mystical shows itself. 6.522:
There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows ...
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Does our language determine our "religious experiences"?
Does our language determine the character of "religious experiences"? I don't mean merely 'influence', but, as I explain in the next paragraph, whether religious experiences of a certain nature are ...
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How does philosophy not fall into the confirmation bias?
Daoism and Buddhism in Eastern philosophies emphasize adaptation and flexibility, and critique rationality. They have different frameworks to understand the same phenomenon, and different goals for ...
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What is the distinction between mysticism and metaphysics?
Mysticism and Metaphysics seem to share immediate similarity: both amount to sort of speculations pertaining to capture universal truth that cannot be confirmed nor refuted by the senses. What is the ...
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