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MYSTICISM [5 records]

Record 1 2014-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religious Sects - Various
CONT

What is Interuniversalism?... Interuniversalism(mysticism of the ring) is a cognitive [approach] in which the basic foundation is in connection with the cosmic intelligence and this can be felt and researched using the rings... bestowed upon us... anyone [of] any age, sex, race or religion can reach these rings and experience them in order to better understand self, God and universe and ultimately reach perfection.

Key term(s)
  • inter-universalism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultes divers
CONT

Qu’est-ce que l’interuniversalisme? La connexion inter-universelle est une théorie cognitive dans laquelle la fondation de base est connectée avec l’intelligence cosmique. Ces enseignements et compréhension sont à la portée de tous les humains. Quiconque de n’importe quel âge, sexe, race ou religion peut atteindre ces cercles et les expérimenter pour une meilleure compréhension de soi, du Créateur et de l’univers.

Key term(s)
  • inter-universalisme

Spanish

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Record 2 2014-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Religious Sects - Various
CONT

The practical aspect of erfan(mysticism) is based on establishing a link to the several circles(halgheh) of the "cosmic consciousness, "through which an entire pathway of exploration and transformation is opened... Amongst numerous... applications of this connection is healing and recovery which is the subject of faradarmani as a complementary and alternative medical treatment method.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultes divers
CONT

Thérapie d’origine persane, le faradarmani repose sur la transformation intérieure de l’être. [...] Le but de cette thérapie est de prendre en charge les personnes afin de recréer l’unité en elles.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-11-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Movements
DEF

Any of the young people of the 1960s and 1970s who, in their alienation from conventional society, turned variously to mysticism, psychedelic drugs, communal living, etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements sociaux
OBS

Pluriel : des hippies, des hippys.

OBS

hippies; hippys : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Movimientos sociales
DEF

Partidario o simpatizante [del movimiento contracultural juvenil surgido en los Estados Unidos de América en la década de 1960], o que adopta alguna de las actividades que le son propias.

OBS

Jipi. La RAE recomienda que se hispanicen así los anglicismos hippie y hippy.

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Record 4 1998-04-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Philosophy (General)
  • Psychology (General)
DEF

The transcendence of ordinary consciousness by the effort to give effect to the craving for a union of the soul with the deity already in this life, through personal religious experience.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Philosophie (Généralités)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

Une tendance à l'union spirituelle, intime et de caractère intuitif, avec la divinité, laquelle est recherchée dans l'ascèse, la prière, la méditation, l'oraison et une certaine passivité conduisant à la contemplation et à l'extase.

Spanish

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Record 5 1988-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Parapsychology
CONT

Metapsychiatry is a term born of necessity to designate the important but hitherto unclassified interface between psychiatry and mysticism. By "mysticism" the stuhor means phenomena experienced by the senses but not explainable by the intellect. Examples of such phenomena are dreams, ESP, faith healing and so forth.(Medline database).

OBS

Dean, S.R., A quest for purpose in psychic research. Mental Health Soc., 1976, 3(1-2) pp. 114-21, ISSN 0302-2811.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parapsychologie
DEF

Étude des divers courants de connaissance dans le domaine de psychiatrie. Cette étude exclut un examen des troubles mentaux en particulier.

OBS

Ann. Med. Psychol (Paris) (France), juillet 1973, 2(2) p. 273-9 ISSN 0003-4487.

Spanish

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