168 actas del ii congreso internacional de literatura mística Table 1 (continued) Statement Source Love is poured out into the mystic’s heart. Lossky, 1944; 1985 [The mystic] acquires the Holy Spirit, which is the key to the creation of an Orthodox phronema, or worldview. Chrysostomos, 2000a; 2000b; 2007; Chrysostomos & Akakios, 1986; John Cassian, 1979; Louchakova & Warner, 2003 [The mystic]… attains self-actualization. Chrysostomos, 2000a; 2000b; 2007; Chrysostomos & Akakios, 1986; John Cassian, 1979; Louchakova & Warner, 2003 [F]rom… [self-actualization] flow love, awareness, compassion, healing, comfort, tolerance, and joy. Chrysostomos, 2000a; 2000b; 2007; Chrysostomos & Akakios, 1986; John Cassian, 1979; Louchakova & Warner, 2003 From Mystical Experience in Hinduism The apprehension of spiritual energies and realities is transcendental and supersedes the ability of the senses, mind, and ordinary understanding. Bhaskarananda, 1994; Chidbhavananda, 1997 The ajna chakra, i.e., ‘the third eye’, (which is commonly translated into English as ‘command’), is the ‘eye of intuition’, (i.e., the point where intuition meets with logic and the center of supersensory cognition that is activated by light), must be protected and cultivated through struggle and activated by meditation and exercises in order to obtain spiritual knowledge. Bhaskarananda, 1994; Chidbhavananda, 1997 A false image of the self results when the self is identified with the body-mind as a subject observing an object. Bhaktivedanta, 1997a; 1997b The disharmony results in separation from the knowledge, experience, and presence of oneness, i.e., non-duality. Bhaktivedanta, 1997a; 1997b; Bhaskarananda, 1994; Chidbhavananda, 1997; Flood, 2003
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