Document Type : scientific-research
Author
Assistant professor of Persian language and literature, University of Isfahan
Abstract
In the process of understanding the mystical experience, there is a mutual and sustainable interaction between the perception of experience, on one hand, and the place and space of events, on the other hand. As the existence of experience recipient makes the place dynamic, being in the atmosphere of the experience leads to the internal transformation of the mystic. The description of the place and the space of these incidents is not always the same in mystics' words. Describing the mystical experience, the easiest way to interact with "place" is its application in reference to a geometric position. All the intuitive events occur in a particular place for a mystic, although these experiences occur not in the material but a metaphysical world that weaken the link of mystic with material world. The presence of the subject in the atmosphere of experience leads to crossing the material space and existing in new spaces or new space creation. Based on the mystical experience, there are various descriptions about the space of these events. The most important places and spaces for the acquisition of mystical experiences can be divided into five categories, in general: 1) physical place of experiences, 2) auditory place, 3) mysterious place, 4) metaphysic and 5) time place. Reviewing and analyzing these spaces, the present study offers a plan of "place" component in mystical revelations.
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