195 thiempactofmysticalexperienceonself-actualizationw,orldviewu,nderstandinga,ndtoleranceinbuddhisme,asternorthodoxhy,induisma,ndislam Table 2 (continued) Themes and Meaning Units Evidence in Text Source (6) Knowledge and Discernment Eastern Orthodox Consequently, the true knowledge of God is neither the intellectual engagement with God, nor the knowledge of the dianoia, (i.e., the discursive, conceptualizing, and logical faculty of conscious thinking and cognition) concerning God, but rather, gnosis, or the personal experience of God,…connected to the noetic vision of God. Symeon the New Theologian 1995; 1980; Vujisić, 2009 Hindu In mokṣa, the self then begins to perceive changeless spiritual reality, timelessness, freedom from thoughts and/or cognitions, infinity, spiritual knowledge, expansiveness, and oneness. Walker, 1968; Werner, 1993 Vedānta… describes a group of philosophical traditions concerned with self-realization by which wo/man can understand the ultimate nature of Brahman, or reality. Bhaktivedanta, 1997a; 1997b; Bhaskarananda, 1994; Chidbhavananda, 1997; Flood, 2003; Radhakrishnan, 1967; 1995; 1996 In later Hinduism this ‘faculty psychology’ gave way to a more dynamic psychology, and the mental processes involved in perception were formulated… [as] theories of perception. Dasgupta, 1922 e impact of mys ic l experience on self-actualiza i n...
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