Emotion in mystical experience

This study is a critique of three assumptions that have significantly shaped the neuropsychological study of mystical experience: (a) intense positive emotion, especially ecstasy, is the defining feature of mystical experience; (b) abnormal temporolimbic activity, particularly epileptiform activity,...

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Main Author: Bradford, David T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2013
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2013, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 103-118
Further subjects:B Deification
B temporal lobe
B Mysticism
B ecstatic seizure
B Maximos
B neuropathography
B Symeon the New Theologian
B Neurotheology
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