Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Concentration of the mind upon one thought or idea; a brooding on one subject; mild monomania.
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We shall therefore be much concerned with those experiences which are often called mystical, but which I prefer to call in general contemplative and intuitive; because they extend, as we shall find, without a break from the simplest type of mental prayer, the most general apprehensions of the Spirit, to the most fully developed examples of religious mono-ideism.
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day Evelyn Underhill 1908
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The acme of this kind of discipline would be a semi-hallucinatory mono-ideism -- an imaginary figure of Christ, for example, coming fully to occupy the mind.
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The acme of this kind of discipline would be a semi-hallucinatory mono-ideism -- an imaginary figure of Christ, for example, coming fully to occupy the mind.
Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876
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