?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+Hermeneutic+Model+of+Sacred+Literature+and+Everyday+Revelation&rft.creator=Evola%2C+Vito&rft.subject=Comparative+Linguistics&rft.description=Why+do+some+people+have+life-changing+experiences+when+reading+sacred+texts%2C+and+what+makes+them+so+differently+significant+readings+as+opposed+to+reading+the+newspaper+or+any+kind+of+book%3F+Exploring+a+set+of+metaphors+used+in+the+literature+of+mysticism%2C+and+in+particular+in+the+canonical+literature+of+world+religions%2C+I+use+the+instruments+provided+by+conceptual+integration+and+empirical+data+of+the+neurosciences+to+offer+a+hermeneutic+model+of+the+higher+level+understanding+construed+during+on-line+reading+by+devotees+of+their+respective+sacred+literature.+Constructivists+of+the+past+two+decades+have+considered+the+mystical+experience+as+a+form+of+%22reconditioning+of+consciousness%2C%22+(the+concepts+condition+a+priori+the+experience)%2C+arguing+that+there+are+no+pure+(i.e.+unmediated)+experiences.+I+believe+cognitive+science+helps+prove+that+the+description+of+the+experience+is+contingent+and+not+necessary%3B+the+language+used+in+devotional+literature+to+describe+mystical+experience+influences+the+way+of+living+the+experience%2C+but+it+is+also+motivated+by+its+representing+reality.+Ultimately+I+will+look+at+the+model+of+erotic+relationship+in+mystical+literature+and+how+it+serves+as+evidence+of+non-reductive+physicalism%2C+seeing+the+human+being+as+a+multilevel+psychosomatic+unity.&rft.date=2003&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4556%2F1%2Fev.pdf&rft.identifier=++Evola%2C+Vito++(2003)+A+Hermeneutic+Model+of+Sacred+Literature+and+Everyday+Revelation.++%5BConference+Paper%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4556%2F