THE IMPACT OF MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE ON SELF-ACTUALIZATION, WORLDVIEW, UNDERSTANDING, AND TOLERANCE IN BUDDHISM, EASTERN ORTHODOXY, HINDUISM, AND ISLAM Zoran Vujisić-Jovović ST. GREGORY NAZIANZEN INSTITUTE abstract This presentation highlighted the findings of an exhaustive scientific investigation [based upon 607 primary and secondary resources in 10 languages]. The study was completed at the University of Cambridge [UK] in 2012 and identifies/explicates the similarities and differences between mystical experience and spiritual ascent in the religious psycho-spiritual therapeutic methodologies of Buddhism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Hinduism, and Islam in terms of theory, method, practice, and outcomes. The researcher compared/contrasted the respective prototypes of mystical ‘therapy’ in these four ancient religious systems and their historically documented outcomes and effectiveness. He then, [utilizing the transcendental phenomenological method and eidetic reduction], horizontalized ‘Significant Statements’ from the data, clustered the statements into ‘Theme/Meaning Units’,
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