S p i r i t ua l i t y S t u d i e s 5 - 1 S p r i n g 2 0 1 9 1 EDITORIAL Issue content Editorial 1 Martin Dojčár “All Shall Be Well”: Several Phenomenological and Metaphysical Insights into a Spiritual Experience of Julian of Norwich 2 Jana Trajtelová Reason as a Biological Function 12 Michal Kutáš Yoga as a Part of Sanātana Dharma 24 Gejza M. Timčák The Uberisation of Yoga 34 Sama Fabian Dhūmāvatī, Kālī, Shodashī: Searching for Three Faces of the Sacred Feminine 38 Barbara Le Pape Editorial Here and now, in a single moment in the unrestrainable movement of time and space, at the beginning of its fifth year, Spirituality Studies brings to you a new bunch of articles, both scholarly studies and essays, in accordance with its mission to foster the awareness of the importance of spirituality in the academic as well as personal contexts. On the pages of the 2019 Spring issue, Dr. Jana Trajtelová portraits a fascinating image of a renowned medieval English mystic Julian of Norwich she had been working on for years. The topic of the opening study of the issue is also displayed on its cover – it is Julian of Norwich who invites us to have a look inside. In the following study, Dr. Michal Kuťas develops his philosophical ideas on reason as a biological function in order to argue for holistic understanding of man. The next paper of Doc. Dr. Gejza M. Timčák opens up an exciting polemics against the conventional religious interpretation of the classical Indian Yoga by challenging its relation to the so-called Hinduism. Subsequently, Sama Fabian turns our attention to the rapidly growing phenomena of online Yoga classes and confronts it with the traditional ways of Yoga transmission. And finally, Barbara Le Pape provides us with a unique insight into her creative process and artistic elaboration of the meditative experiences of energies and forms of selected Mahāvidyās – sacred feminine energies according to the Indian tradition. All these contributions reflect, each one in a particular way, the fundamental intent of the Journal – to be an interdisciplinary platform for constructive dialogue between a variety of viewpoints, approaches, and methodologies in the study of spirituality. Let me hope, dear reader, that you are going to find inspiration in these texts for your personal inquiry of this captivating phenomenon of spirituality and your effort will be rewarded by an insight going beyond the dynamics of the phenomenal reality. ←← Cover: Portrait of a Woman with a Winged Bonnet. Copyright © Rogier van der Weyden (1440) Wikimedia Commons Spirituality Studies 5-1 Spring 2019 Publisher: The Society for Spirituality Studies Published in partnership with Monastic Interreligious Dialogue and European Union of Yoga Available online: www.spirituality-studies.org Editor-in-Chief: Doc. Dr. Martin Dojčár PhD. Graphic Design: Martin Hynek Contact: editor@spirituality-studies.org ISSN 1339-9578 Cordially Martin Dojčár
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