Kabbalah a neurocognitive approach to mystical experiences

"In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain. In lieu...

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Hauptverfasser: Arzy, Shaḥar 1974- (VerfasserIn), Idel, Mosheh 1947- (VerfasserIn)
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adam_text Contents Foreword, by Steven C. Schachter; M.D. ix Introduction i one Justification of a Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences 5 1. Four Main Approaches to Mystical Experiences 5 2. A “Bottom-Up” Approach to Mystical Experiences 9 3. Experiences, Radiations, and Cognitive Techniques 10 4. Technical Constructivism from Within the Brain: Limitations 13 two Approaching Ecstatic Experiences 18 1. Ecstasy and the Subjective Experience 18 2. Ecstasy in Judaism 22 3. Four Basic Levels of Ecstasy in Jewish Mysticism 29 4. Four Types of Ecstatic Experience in Jewish Mysticism 30 5. Ecstasy and the Cognitive Neuroscience of the Self 32 VI Contents three The One out There: Autoscopic Phenomena in Jewish Mysticism 35 1. Ex-Stasis: Out of the Body 35 2. Autoscopic Phenomena 36 3. Autoscopic Phenomena in Ecstatic Kabbalah 4· 4. Personal Reports of Mystical Experiences 52 5. Analyzing Mystical Experiences 69 6. Autoscopic, Ascension, and Unitivc Ecstasies: Different Kabbalistic Trends, Different Brain Mechanisms 77 7. Conclusion 83 four The Spirit in the Brain: Trance and Possession in Jewish Mysticism 85 1. Dissociative Trance Disorders 85 2. Maggid and Dibbuq 89 3. The Maggid and Its Induction 91 4. Personal Reports of Mystical Dissociative Experiences 93 5. Maggid, Dibbuq, and the Brain 101 6. Maggid and Dibbuq: Two Selves in One Person m Conclusions 113 i· Some Final Methodological Remarks 113 2. Ecstatic Kabbalah as a Seminal Investigation of the Human Self 116 Contents Vil appendix a. The External and Internal Worlds: Functional Networks in the Human Brain 119 1. Large-Scale Networks in the Human Brain: Function and Anatomy 119 2, The External and Internal Worlds 131 3. Integration of Information in the Brain 135 4. Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Integration 138 5. Conclusion 140 appendix b. Abraham Abulafia the Mystic and His Theory and Technique 141 Notes 147 Bibliography 163 Acknowledgments 189 Index 192
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