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Jun 5, 2024 · As the U.S. Presidential election looms, the "culture wars" that play out in political battles over education, access to abortion, trans rights, and the nature of truth appear to be as entrenched...
May 30, 2024 · "The Cloud of Unknowing," a 14th-century mystical text on contemplation amid a pandemic, is experiencing a renaissance in our current moment. Join award-winning Christian spirituality expert Fr. Anthony Ciorra to discover why this "journey from head to heart" is so relevant to today's spiritual seek…
Jun 5, 2024 · As the U.S. Presidential election looms, the “culture wars” that play out in political battles over education, access to abortion, trans rights, and the nature of truth appear to be as entrenched as ever. But the jousting isn’t just between Christian conservatives and secular liberals.
4 days ago · Mysticism involves an explanatory context, which provides meaning for mystical and visionary experiences, and related experiences like trances. According to Dan Merkur, mysticism may relate to any kind of ecstasy or altered state of consciousness, and the ideas and explanations related to them.
Jun 14, 2024 · Apophatic (imageless, stillness, and wordlessness) – inspired by the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, which forms the basis of Eastern Orthodox mysticism and hesychasm, and became influential in western Catholic mysticism from the 12th century AD onward, as in The Cloud of Unknowing and Meister Eckhart.
Jun 6, 2024 · Of course, the suspicion that the intellect is not the way to God has a long pedigree, most notably in the fourteenth-century English mystical text The Cloud of Unknowing, which warns us that “by our love, the divine may be reached and held; by our thinking, never.”
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2 days ago · In Teresa's mysticism, infused contemplation is described as a "divinely originated, general, non-conceptual, loving awareness of God". According to Dubay: It is a wordless awareness and love that we of ourselves cannot initiate or prolong.
