Negative Emotionality (NEM) is a trait measure that reflects a tendency toward experiencing intense negative emotions and heightened reactivity to perceived threats or stressors, contributing to challenges with social integration and interpersonal relationships. This secondary analysis in healthy volunteers (N = 30) employed a within-subject, double-blind, placebo-controlled design to...
A hallucinogenic brew called ayahuasca has increasingly played a role in drawing people from around the world to the Peruvian Amazon. They come seeking healing and spiritual encounters. As ayahuasca tourism has grown, it has exceeded its designation as mere tourism. Some of the foreigners (mostly Westerners) who come to the jungle for ayahuasca engage in long-term shamanic training with local...
While LSD may have had a harsh reputation in decades previous, current research has been investigating its potential as a therapeutic modality. It has been shown that full doses of LSD are capable of providing therapeutic effects however, the concept of "microdosing", or the repeated use of very low doses has become increasingly popular. Yet, the literature does not provide consistent results...
The mode of 'comparison' is essential, especially when it comes to the contemplation of Marguerite Porete and Hadewijch, the French and Dutch Beguine mystics from 13th century; Their notoriously enigmatic mysticism, by which radical and unique meditations on indistinct union with Divine are expressed in erotic and ecstatic manner, may discover a counterpart in nondualist tantric traditions of...