Religious Experience and Temptations of Nihilism in Spiritual Life of Personality: Philosophical Analysis
Symptoms of a lack of spirituality are negative phenomena such as anxiety, loneliness, an existential vacuum, angst, depression, suicidal ideation, unbridled hedonism. According to the authors of the article, a way out of the existential crisis is a "turn of consciousness", the existential orientation of personality towards the sacred mystery of being as a spiritual instance of the highest order, which is able to suffice human being with a transcendent meaning (meta-sense). It is emphasized. the reality of the absolute, which is revealed in experience, is comprehended not rationally and discursively, but intuitively and contemplatively, through the ontological co-belonging. In the religious inspiration man discovers the divine unspeakable mystery, reveals the richness of meanings, the qualitative initiative transformation through symbolic death and resurrection happen occurs. The example of Heidegger’s philosophy argues that a root of modern disenchantment of the world, nihilism and the oblivion of the sacred mystery of being should be sought in the history of being itself, in the so-called “ontohistory”.
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