The spiritual tradition in Eastern christianity : ascetic psychology, mystical experience, and physical pratices / by David.T. Bradford.

Author
Bradford, David T., 1951- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Leuven : Peeters, 2016.
  • copyright 2016
Description
446 pages ; 24 cm.

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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.
    ISBN
    9789042932845 (pbk.) :
    OCLC
    1001387564
    RCP
    N - S
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