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Comparability (its relative)
self-reporting problems
cross-cultural (methods different based on goals)
Correlation vs. causation |
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| Facault: those who determine what is socially acceptable are in power |
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We are bad at predicting future happiness
Looking into future we,
focus only on good
underestimate our ability to cope with bad
Things we think make us happy do not |
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1. people who exercise their body for spiritual reasons
2. tool of transformation |
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| Motivations for Hating the Body |
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1. emulate pain of deity
2. separate material from spiritual
3. penance
4. hope for spiritual freedom
5. destroy karma |
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Kicked out of monastery (too austere)
Climbed 40 ft. structure |
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Jainism was first ascetic religion
non-violence
self-effort to move soul toward divine |
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whipping
Shia'a ritual Ashura to remember Hussein |
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oldest religious festival (about 50 million years old)
Samnyasin: group of ascetics |
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Masson: they were all abused as children
Menninger: chronic suicide
Freud: they never developed out of initial desire to hurt |
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| Islam: day where they remember Muhammads ascent |
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| human form is material and spiritual, must disconnect from material to achieve spiritual |
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1. gain power (power fluids)
2. avoid bestiel bodies
3. asexual
4. distraction from divine |
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| Hindu: extreme devotion to one diety |
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| Christian: spends time breaking up marriages to end sex |
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early christian: genders were 2nd gen.
celebacy takes us back to origens
Philo: Jew |
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Marriage creates virgins (babies)
Virgin is 3rd gender |
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leads to all things bad
is pleasurable but leads to displeasure |
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became hermit and became most published solitude author
truth comes out of solitude
we should all have solitude |
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first monk
continually seeks more solitude
as a prereq for spiritual growth |
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| Absall and Hay on Solitude |
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| Solitude is better than structured forms of religion |
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| critiques of the world (solitude) |
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1. world is full of distraction
2. the world disappoints
3. the world fosters selfishness
4. encourages selfishness
5. the world is an illusion/evil |
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buddhist: wheel slipping off axis
life is full of moments that don't fit together (suffering) |
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| Classic Christian World view |
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| the world is not evil but should be fled to be christian |
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Hindu: world is either illusionary or evil
Maya: illusionary world (need to be freed) |
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| Signs the World Still has a hold on You |
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3 things:
1. you define yourself by others
unstable opinions
2. narcissism
3. arrogance |
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| the college demographic has become increasingly narcissistic |
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| detaching self from what others think |
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Monks volunteered themselves for prison
Merton thought this insane |
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| Diogenes did this in attempt to court social dishonor |
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group ascetic
-need others for provision
-dont recognize own faults
-need love of others |
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| obedience in group asceticism |
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need guru to:
we are masters of self delusion
need guidance of someone who's been there
practice of giving up will |
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| Schedule of life in a monastery |
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get up early
tough work to pass time between prayer
remold daily patterns |
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| Kanter and successful communities |
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1. obedient
2. minimalistic
3. everyone shares thoughts with own "therapist" |
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| Status of Women in Ancient Cultures |
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subservient
objectified
failed version of Male
seducers |
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| psychological approaches to asceticism |
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toddler's creed (Freud)
2. sign of neurosis or death wise |
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| looked at goals and method and couldn't find correlation |
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| method of denying instinct is common among ascetics |
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| asceticism is a tool to transform view of self |
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1. combative, hatred of former self
2. integrative, if somethings good, do it all the time
3. educative, gain knowledge of leader
4. pilgrim, change by new encounters
5. revelatory, prepare for encounter with god |
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| giving up something to gain something (economic exchange) |
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2 conditions for rise:
1. society is unstable
2. religion values body
social response:
reject,
integrate, parallel or sequential
or embrace, usually kills religion |
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non-dualist
embraces taboo: process of shocking into realization of brahma |
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| orgone, the orgasmic power that makes up the world |
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Tantra:
Siva, men
Sakti, woman (active, control) |
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sex is ritual, meditative
brings world together by merging men and women |
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| Social Construction of Normal |
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| what is normal for the times, place etc. |
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| Cameron's Literary Model of Ascetics |
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| Ascetics make for stories that can be manipulated to convey what is desired |
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mistrust of emotions
1.internal
2.transformation
3.secret for spiritual elite
4.direct encounter with the Real |
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| Evelyn Underhill's 5 stages of Mysticism |
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1.awakening
2.purgation
3.illumination
4.dark night of the soul
5.unselfing |
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1.Mysterium
2.Tremendum
3.Fascinans |
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| William James' 4 characteristics of Mysticism |
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1. ineffable
2. Noetic - of the mind
3. passivity
4. transient |
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| ways of describing mystical experience |
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negating language
poetry
riddles (koans)
paradoxes
oxymorons
eroticism (metaphorical) |
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| Spectrum of Scholarly myst theories |
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1. common experience for all
2. same experience but interpretation differs
3. patterns
4. they are all different |
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| RC Zaehner’s Three Types of Mysticism |
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1. Nature Mysticism/Panhenic = experience of oneness of all things, transcending space and time
2. Monistic – soul realizes it’s eternal separateness from anything outside itself, realization of difference between matter and spirit
3. Theistic – distinction between man and god = there is love |
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| WT Stace Model of Mysticism |
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-extroverted vs. introverted way of distinguishing types of mysticism
-extrovert: you see oneness in everything outside (EXTERNAL)
-introvert: you see the connection of your soul to the ground of all being (INTERNAL) |
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| Scholem/Katz Modern Critique of Mysticism |
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1. Gershom Scholem
-no one is a JUST mystic
2. Steven Katz
-no experience that isn’t already mediated by culture |
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merkavah mysticism
torah
ashkenazi hasidism |
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| ezekiel's encounter with God |
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-Gin Sof- The essence of God
-tree of life
-10 attributes [Seferah (seferot)] lead to tree o |
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we create God when we do a good act or deed
God is not a noun but an act of loving |
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| Three models of christian mysticism |
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1. eastern orthodox mysticism, creator is bigger than all
2. Catholic Identity, imitation of Christ
3. Catholic Mystical Marriage, attain oneness through marriage |
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| Creation is made out of contradiction of God to create space |
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| 3 models of christian mysticism |
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eastern orthodox: the fullness of God is unattainable
negating language
Catholic Identity Mysticism: lose identity in uniting with God
Catholic Mystical Marriage: attain oneness through marriage |
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God cannot be seen through anything in physical world
need purges to get closer to the divine |
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| aligning breathing with prayer |
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got stigmata: wounds that resembled Christ's
became Hermit |
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educated, female mystic.
gained huge respect in catholic church. |
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| Theresa of Avila four stages of mystical marriage |
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1. falling in love
2. exchange of gifts
3. betrothal or engagement
4. beyond emotion |
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| John of the Cross and the Dark night of the soul |
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developed relationship with Theresa
period of doubt that brings unity |
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| night journey of ascension to 7th heaven |
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1. preparation of the soul
2. love unto union
3. Fana, annihilation (dying before dying) |
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| Sufism: someone who has been there before |
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| Birds get to God and see in mirror that God is within |
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| Who you are, your own personal unique marker |
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| foundation of universe that is within all things but also beyond all things |
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| state of ignorance/confusion. NOT a sin |
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| Two paths of Hindu Mysticism |
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Raja Yoga
Bhakti, Brahman is beyond all that we know, everyone has a God that is their own |
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Saguna: God has a name and form (attributes)
Nirguna: opposite. The "absolute" |
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| Most indigenous religions used drugs |
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-isn't repeatable
-it is material |
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| drugs help us get past our filters of world |
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taken in right environment okay
dorm room not okay |
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| took rels students to church and gave them LSD. All ten had profound experience |
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| Controlled version of Good Friday, similar results |
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| LSD experiment that showed some mystical experiences although not intended |
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| Theism, Deism, Panentheism, Pantheism |
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Theism: God is separate from world but can interject
Deism: God created world, let it go
Panentheism: A bit of God is in everything
Pantheism: God is the universe |
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| Tried to start own religion |
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| most classically religious |
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| replaced God with mountains |
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| Mystics as social activists |
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1. others determine you as a mystic
2. extraordinary experience
3. criticizes status quo
4. mystics are linked to change |
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| encountered God while fasting, Catholic |
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1. Absolutist
2. Social Constructionist
3. Environmental |
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| Kinsey's Arguments for Spiritually insane in Hinduism |
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1. loss of identity
2. total absorption in mad god |
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| act like animals to try to create change |
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Thesis 1: insane come out of religious environments
Thesis 2: They have positive influence
thesis 3: in a religion where holiness comes from outside
thesis 4: community has stake in it |
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| Theses on destructive holy insanity |
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1. religions tend towards absolutist, universal and cosmic
2. self referential
3. difficult to verify objectively (like politics) |
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we are masters of self delusion
a path that needs guidance
practice to give up will to God |
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Tend to have mysterious pasts
renounced upbringing
period of discipline
gained something extraordinary |
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