Psychological Oneness: A Typology

Coomber, Ties; Harré, Niki

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“…Among the more common characteristics are unconditional love, indescribable bliss, and a sense of union and fusion with the Divine Being. This last characteristic is labeled as Oneness or Nonduality (Coomber & Harré, 2022;Josipovic, 2019;Mills et al, 2020), which comprises a sense of losing the boundary of the individual self, maintaining the awareness of self-awareness, feeling to be one with all that exists, and a mental clarity and feeling of love difficult to describe in words.…”

Section: How Is It Possible To Know If God and Jesus Exist And What T...mentioning

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God’s characteristics as reported by near-death experiencers

Tressoldi¹

2023

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The descriptions of God’s and Jesus’ characteristics as observed by 303 Near-death or Near-death like experiencers were analyzed for their frequency both in the whole sample and divided by the participants’ religious experience. Both in the whole group and in the subgroups, the main observed characteristics (approximately 70%) were a special Light and Unconditional Love, associated with other characteristics such as Oneness and Nonjudgmental, very similar to the descriptions obtained during spiritual and mystical experiences. Only 13.9% of the descriptions reported God or Jesus as in human form, as represented in popular religious images. These characteristics are not commonly reported in God’s main descriptions in the texts of the main monotheistic religions. These first-person accounts of God’s characteristics complement what has been reported in other mental conditions, especially in the spiritual/mystical experiences, offering a great resource for the scientific investigation of God’s nature.

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Section: How Is It Possible To Know If God and Jesus Exist And What T...mentioning

confidence: 99%

God’s characteristics as reported by near-death experiencers

Tressoldi¹

2023

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Unity in diversity: Exploring the effect of oneness with humanity on the willingness to donate to Syrian and Ukrainian refugees

Bilgen,

Zagefka,

Bjornsdottir

2024

Personality and Individual Differences

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De-Mystifying Mysticism: A Critical Realist Perspective on Ambivalences in the Study of Mysticism

Qadir,

Tiaynen-Qadir

2024

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The study of mysticism has been at an impasse for many years, wavering between naïve realism around a common core hypothesis and critical questioning of the category of mysticism and its imposition. In this article, we review key 20th century developments in the study of mysticism to understand why the term was largely abandoned and unpack the contours of this impasse. Specifically, we probe the literature to ask (i) how has mysticism been defined and (ii) who counts as a mystic? Our primary data are key pieces of scholarly literature on mysticism, including interdisciplinary studies and disciplinary literature from religious studies, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. This review draws on a metatheoretic perspective of critical realism and is not meant to be comprehensive but rather analytical, seeking to identify patterns in scholarship. We find that each question is answered by studies along an axis, wavering between two ideal–typical poles. On the first question, we find scholarship ranging along an axis of essence between extreme poles of a reified vs. relativized substance of mysticism. On the second question, we find studies on an axis of access, varying between a rarified concept of mystical elites and a laified concept of mystical knowledge open to all. Putting studies along these axes yields a definitional space of mysticism that is compatible with critical realism and allows for the general study of mysticism to continue in a more nuanced, post-critique way. We also find that the category of experience lies at the origin or intersection point of both axes, and is a source of many problems in the general study of mysticism.

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Psychological Oneness: A Typology

Cited by 4 publications

References 85 publications

God’s characteristics as reported by near-death experiencers

God’s characteristics as reported by near-death experiencers

Unity in diversity: Exploring the effect of oneness with humanity on the willingness to donate to Syrian and Ukrainian refugees

De-Mystifying Mysticism: A Critical Realist Perspective on Ambivalences in the Study of Mysticism

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