A Jungian and Mystical approach to Divine Grace

Subject Areas : Mytho

علی محمد پشتدار ¹ , محمدرضا عباسپور خرمالو ²

1 - استادیار دانشگاه پیام نور مرکز تهران
2 - دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیات فارسی دانشگاه آزاداسلامی واحد رودهن

Received: 2015-05-25 Accepted : 2015-05-25 Published : 2009-09-23

Keywords: Islamic Mysticism, Divine Grace, Extrasensory Powers, Jungian Psychology, Golshan-e Rāz,

Abstract :

  Almost all religions and schisms believe that man has extrasensory powers, but the most important question is how it can be obtained. Islamic mystics, especially Mohammad Lahiji (d. 912/1506), commenter of Shabestari's Golshan-e Rāz, offer a way to obtain this power and mystical state (maqām). They want the holy travelers (salek) to purify their hearts and, as a result, acquire the Divine grace (karamat). Carl Gustav Jung, A Christian psychiatrist, with respect to notions of conscious and unconscious, also, proposes the possibility of achieving extrasensory powers. In this paper, the ways of gaining extrasensory powers in order to acquire Divine grace will be discussed from psychological and mystical points of view.