LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Question
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Which of the following best defines mysticism?
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The dream connection between the two sexes
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A literary genre written mainly in the Anglo-Saxon era
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The human soul’s tendency towards intimate union with the divine
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The separation between humanity and divinity
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -mysticism, the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the West, Diogenes of Apollonia, a Greek philosopher of the 5th century bce, introduced mystical ideas into Greek philosophy.
Detailed explanation-3: -William James characterized mystical experience by four marks: transiency, passivity, noetic quality, and ineffability.
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