Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences

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Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences

Name: Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences
ISBN: 9780300152364

Shahar Arzy, Moshe Idel

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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.

Categories:

Religion & Spirituality - Religious Studies

Content Type:

Books

Year:

2015

Edition:

Reprint

Publisher:

Yale University Press

Language:

english