Kabbalah: A Neurocognitive Approach to Mystical Experiences - Hardcover

Arzy, Shahar; Idel, Moshe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300152361 ISBN 13: 9780300152364

Verlag: YALE UNIV PR, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Shahar Arzy is the director of the Computational Neuropsychiatry Lab at the Faculty of Medicine at Hebrew University, Jerusalem and a senior neurologist at the Department of Neurology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center. Moshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor in Jewish Thought in the Department of Jewish Thought at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and senior researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: YALE UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0300152361
• ISBN 13: 9780300152364
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 218
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