Mysticism Sacred and Profane

TL;DR: This paper argued that the appeal to experience for rational justification of religious belief is probably as old as the question whether religious belief has any rational support, and that the issues relevant to such appeal range widely, and I will have to be content to deal with only a few of them.

TL;DR: The authors examined the meaning and significance of concepts of the transpersonal self in seven major psychological theories, focusing on the historical development and experiential foundations of religious and metaphysical ideas about the soul.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of Islamic art, including the earliest mosques, such as the Prophet's mosque at Medina, or those of Kufa and Basra, were primitive structures, erected of perishable material.

TL;DR: Ineffability has been proposed as an important feature of the mystical experience as discussed by the authors, and various psychological processes may contribute to this ineffability, including expansion of awareness from center to margin of the field of consciousness, an attentional shift from a discrete figure to a large, complex, novel ground, limitations imposed by the nature of the "object" of the experience and by our vehicles of perception and cognition.