VOLUME 8 ISSUE 1 SPRING 2022

Editorial	1
Questions to Which There Are No Answers: The Method Behind Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Dialogue	2
1 Introduction	3
2 The Birth of a NewMethodology	4
3 First Dialogue Analysis	6
4 Second Dialogue Analysis	8
5 On Krishnamurti’s Question and Negation	10
6 Conclusion	12
Notes	13
Bibliography	13
Alternative Spiritualities in Paulo Coelho’s Texts	14
1 Religion and Literature: An Introduction	16
2 Life of Paulo Coelho	17
3 Alternative Spiritualities in Coelho’s Select Novels	19
4 Are Alternative Spiritualities Mystical Experiences in View of Coelho’s Select Novels?	22
5 Conclusion	24
Notes	25
References	26
Addiction and the Quest for Wholeness	28
1 Introduction	29
2 The Misguided Search for Transcendence	30
2.1 Recovery and the Sacred	32
3 The Wholeness with Which We Were Born	34
3.1 The Need for a Spiritual Path	37
4 Conclusion	39
Note	39
References	40
Spirituality from the Perspective of Philosophical Anthropology: Against the Background of Helmuth Plessner’s Conception	42
1 Introduction	43
2 Spirituality in the Perspective of the Non-Place of Man	44
3 Spirituality and Experience	46
4 Conclusion	47
Notes	48
Acknowledgment	48
References	49
Selected Aspects of the Images of God’s Mercy in the Exegesis of the Psalms by Augustine of Hippo	50
1 Introduction	52
2 Methodology	52
3 God’s Mercy	53
4 Good Samaritan	53
5 Physician	54
6 Hen and its Wings	55
7 Images of the Eucharist as an Extension of the Incarnation	56
8 Maternal Milk for Children	56
9 Conclusion	57
Acknowledgement	57
References	57
Against the Stream	58
1 Introduction	60
2 Cosmological and Phylogenetical Context of Minařík’s Mysticism	61
3 Mysticism as a Reversion of the Involution Process	62
4 Psychosomatic Basis of Minařík’s Mysticism	63
5 Mysticism as the Way of Transformation of Being	64
6 Internal Predispositions for Spiritual Endeavors	66
7 Conclusion	66
Acknowledgement	67
References	67
Book Review Hunt, Cheryl. 2021 Critical Reflection, Spirituality and Professional Practice	68
Mission	69

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