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The spiritual tradition in Eastern christianity : ascetic psychology, mystical experience, and physical pratices / by David.T. Bradford.
Author
Bradford, David T., 1951-
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Language
English
Published/Created
Leuven : Peeters, 2016.
copyright 2016
Description
446 pages ; 24 cm.
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ReCAP 17-66128
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Subject(s)
Asceticism
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Eastern churches
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Mysticism
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Psychology
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Psychology, Religious
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Series
Studies in spirituality. Supplement ; 26.
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Studies in spirituality. Supplement ; 26
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-393) and index.
Contents
1. The Powers of the Soul
The Incensive Power
The Desiring Power
The Intellect
Image and Archetype
Brightly Shining Mind
2. The Heart
Spiritual Anatomy
Hesychast Prayer
Four Phases of Prayer
Intracorporeal Space
Posture and Respiration
Attention
Two Patterns of Autonomic Arousal
Parallels in Other Traditions
The Influence of Sufism
3. The Luminous Presence
Properties of the Luminous Presence
The Hesychast Controversy
Divine and Demonic Visions
Four Kinds of Luminous Visions
Focal-Extracorporeal Light
Global-Extracorporeal Light
Corporeal Light
Intracorporeal Light
A Complex Visionary Experience
D Chromatic Visionary Light
Visionary Light and Divine Omnipresence
4. Sleep, Dreams, and Prayer
Prayer During Sleep
Sleep Deprivation
Dream Interpretation
Visions and Revelations While Asleep
Illustration of Prayer While Dreaming
Illustration of Mystical Experience While Asleep
Dreamless Sleep and Mystical Experience
5. The Spiritual Senses
Spiritual Perception
Sensory Perception
One and Many
Mystical Synesthesia
Spiritual Odor
Smell and Demonic Entrapment
6. The Passions
Eight Dispositions
The Five Hindrances
The Constructing Activities
The Demons
Anchorite and Cenobite
Psychotherapy of the Passions
Illustration of Evagrian Psychotherapy
Demons, Delirium, and Migraine
7. Stillness and Dispassion
The Delicacy of Stillness
Nipsis and Attention
Nipsis and Emotion
Nipsis and Memory
The Permanence of Dispassion
A Dispassionate Tool
8. Acedia
Depleted Fervor
Acedia and Physical Symptoms
9. Pride and Vainglory
Vainglory and Social Display
Clothing and Other Possessions
Vainglory and Cognition
A Psychosis of Pride and Vainglory
10. Fornication
Morbid Defluxions
Intoxication and Sexual Fantasy
Fornication and Sense-Desire
11. Gluttony
Diverse Expressions of Gluttony
Fasting
A Syndrome of Ascetic Fasting
The Precedence of Gluttony over Fornication
The Desire for Immortality
12. Phvsical Practices
Surface and Depth Interventions
Discomfort and Pain
The Prostration
Face, Eyes, and Gaze
13. Evagrius on Impassioned Mental Activity
Thoughts
Illustration of Objective Perception
14. Images of Bodily Corruption
The Buddhist Meditation on Foulness
The Ascetic Utility of Raw Emotion
15. Maximos on Impassioned Mental Activity
Conceptual Images
16. Religious Weeping
Tears
Weeping
Isaac the Syrian on Tears
Permanent Autonomic Change
17. The Body in Dreams and Fantasy
The Imaginal Body
Principle of Mental Transformation
18. The Deified Body
The Flesh
Weightiness
Illusory Movement
Weightiness and Cosmology
19.
The Remembrance of Death
Fear and Love
An Imaginal Practice
The Thought of Death
Change in the Practice
An Imitation of Christ
20. Three Forms of Mystical Experience
Near-Absorption
The Ecstatic Vision
The Imageless Grasp
Mystical Experience in Temporal Perspective
21. Maximos on Dispassion and Deification
Eros
Preliminary Dispassions
Advanced Dispassions
Inhibition of Perceptual Experience
Deification.
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ISBN
9789042932845 (pbk.) :
OCLC
1001387564
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N - S
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