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| Healing Imagery in Major Religious and Mystical Traditions | ||
| 作者 | Amalraj, Loyola (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| 卷期 | v.60 n.5 Section A |
| 出版日期 | 1999 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.proquest.com/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | Marquette University |
| 系所名稱 | Educational Policy and Leadership |
| 指導教授 | Kipfmueller, Mark |
| 畢業年度 | 1999 |
| 附註項 | 465p |
| 關鍵詞 | RELIGION |
| 摘要 | For centuries human race has explored various ways and means of healing the human body of its physiological, psychological, emotional, and spiritual problems. Various methods have been espoused to achieve a holistic healing. This research is an attempt to unearth healing methods developed by these mystical and religious traditions: Shamanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Imagination of senses has been a powerful tool employed by human beings to achieve remarkable changes and progress in a variety of areas. This dissertation attempted to study the imagery techniques developed by these traditions and how they were engaged to heal mind and body of their problems. When senses are brought before mind's eyes they are called “imagery.” The method used for the investigation of the matter is literary analysis. Literary analysis was applied to investigate how imagery techniques contributed to integrated healing. This study indicates that imagery techniques were espoused by these traditions with a view to achieve concentration of mind. Both sensory and imagery techniques were used either in combination, or at times, one to the exclusion of the other, in focusing attention of the mind on one point, which is believed to initiate the process of healing. Variety of other supplementaries such as breathing exercises, body postures, music, dance, faith, belief, and other moral restraints played significant roles. Although initially sensory and/or imagery techniques were employed, gradually, these traditions fell beck upon matters such as “faith” or “eyes of the heart” to transcend the area of imagination and enter a highly transformative stage of transcendence. Mystical methods recognized a significant human composite, which could be termed the “spirit” or “soul” besides body and mind. It is with that faculty that many of the untapped higher human potentials were exploited in order to experience a transcendence. Mystical methods consisting of nonrational techniques such as repetitious words or phrases were audibly or inaudibly used with a view to access the unconscious where part of the physical or psychological healing may have occurred. From the unconscious, mystics stood still at the spiritual unconscious where they were being possessed by God. Mystics' healing journey culminated in the spiritual unconscious where subject-object distinction disappeared, transforming them completely. |
| ISBN | 9780599289796; 0599289791 |
| 點閱次數 | 115 |
| 建檔日期 | 1999.10.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.03.31 |
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