The Birth of Apocalyptic Meaning from the Spirit of Communication: Preconditions for the Formation of Eschatological Consciousness in the Modern Spiritualist Movement

IF 0.2 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Vladislav S. Razdyakonov
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Abstract

Two ideas haunt the eschatological consciousness of modernity: antifinalism, signifying the infinity of spiritual evolution of man and the cosmos; anthropological agency, postulating the important role of man in the development of the eschatological process. The article focuses on the modern spiritualist movement, whose participants anticipated the imminent beginning of a new stage of human evolution. The study suggests that the genesis of the eschatological consciousness of the movement’s participants was conditioned by the specifics of their communication with the spiritual world. Firstly, the condition for the genesis of eschatological consciousness was the loss of a significant person and the psychological experience of nostalgia. Thus, the eschatological verificationism of spiritualists is defined as the projection of their traumatic experience onto the world around them. Secondly, automatic writing practice played a crucial role in the emergence of eschatological consciousness, it determined the spiritualists’ treatment of the medium as a special anthropological type. Thirdly, the features of the séance that may have shaped eschatological consciousness are revealed, while the movement itself is categorized as a millenial cult. The spiritualist interpretation of spiritual communication as an act of transcending “earthly” language into the realm of the “language of thought” is eschatological, because it affirms un unambiguous vision of reality, which is unmediated by any “natural” symbolic system. The borderline situation of eschatological expectation was the key reason for the formation of eschatological consciousness.
从传播精神中诞生世界末日的意义:现代灵修运动中末世论意识形成的先决条件
有两种思想萦绕着现代性的末世论意识:反终极主义(antifinalism),意味着人类和宇宙精神进化的无限性;人类学代理(anthropological agency),认为人类在末世论进程的发展中扮演着重要角色。文章的重点是现代唯灵论运动,其参与者预期人类进化的新阶段即将开始。研究表明,该运动参与者末世意识的产生受制于他们与灵界交流的具体情况。首先,末世论意识产生的条件是失去重要人物和怀旧的心理体验。因此,灵修者的末世论验证论被定义为他们的创伤经历对周围世界的投射。其次,自动书写实践对末世意识的产生起到了至关重要的作用,它决定了灵修者将灵媒作为一种特殊的人类学类型来对待。第三,揭示了降神会可能塑造了末世论意识的特点,同时将降神会运动本身归类为千年邪教。灵性论者将灵性沟通解释为一种超越 "尘世 "语言进入 "思想语言 "领域的行为,这种解释是末世论的,因为它肯定了对现实的毫不含糊的看法,这种看法不受任何 "自然 "符号系统的影响。末世论期待的边缘状况是末世论意识形成的关键原因。
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VOPROSY FILOSOFII
VOPROSY FILOSOFII PHILOSOPHY-
CiteScore
0.40
自引率
50.00%
发文量
100
期刊介绍: "Вопросы философии" - академическое научное издание, центральный философский журнал в России. В настоящее время является органом Президиума Российской Академии Наук. Журнал "Вопросы философии" исторически тесно связан с Институтом философии РАН. Выходит ежемесячно. Журнал был основан в июле 1947 г. Интернет-версия журнала запущена в мае 2009 года.
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