Mystical Love: The Universal Solvent

The authors, both anthropologists who study alternative states of consciousness (ASC), explore the psychodynamics of mystical experience (ME). An affect that is a key factor for and integral to the phenomenology of ME is what they term "mystical love." In many respects, ME refers to ASC th...

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Authors: Laughlin, Charles (Author) ; Takahashi, Melanie (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: American Anthropological Association [2020]
In: Anthropology of consciousness
Year: 2020, Volume: 31, Issue: 1, Pages: 5-62
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Consciousness expansion / Love / Empathy / Mystical experience
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AE Psychology of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
Further subjects:B absorption states
B loving-kindness
B alternative states of consciousness
B transpersonal anthropology
B mystical love
B Mystical Experience
B drivers
B neural tuning
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