Kabbalah : a neurocognitive approach to mystical experiences / Shahar Arzy, Moshe Idel.

By:

Arzy, S. (Shahar) [author.]

Contributor(s):

Idel, Moshe, 1947- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300152371
030015237X

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kabbalah.DDC classification:

296.7/12 23

LOC classification:

BM526 .A79 2015eb

NLM classification:

2016 G-355
BM 496.9.P8

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Contents:

Justification of a Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences -- Approaching Ecstatic Experiences -- The One out There: Autoscopic Phenomena in Jewish Mysticism -- The Spirit in the Brain: Trance and Possession in Jewish Mysticism -- Conclusions.

Summary: "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 of the theological, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches that have generally dominated the study of ecstatic mystical experiences, the authors endeavor to decode the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Arzy and Idel analyze first-person descriptions to explore the Kabbalistic techniques employed by most prominent Jewish mystics to effect bodily reduplications, dissociations, and other phenomena, and compare them with recent neurological observations and modern-day laboratory experiments. The resultant study offers readers a scientific, more brain-based understanding of how ecstatic Kabbalists achieved their most precious mystical experiences. The study further demonstrates how these Kabbalists have long functioned as pioneering investigators of the human self"-- Provided by publisher.

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"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 of the theological, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches that have generally dominated the study of ecstatic mystical experiences, the authors endeavor to decode the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Arzy and Idel analyze first-person descriptions to explore the Kabbalistic techniques employed by most prominent Jewish mystics to effect bodily reduplications, dissociations, and other phenomena, and compare them with recent neurological observations and modern-day laboratory experiments. The resultant study offers readers a scientific, more brain-based understanding of how ecstatic Kabbalists achieved their most precious mystical experiences. The study further demonstrates how these Kabbalists have long functioned as pioneering investigators of the human self"-- Provided by publisher.