Mysticism

Proposes a nested-boundary model of psychological configuration under analytic idealism, suggesting that mystical and psychotic states are identical in openness but opposite in other dimensions, without empirical data.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Presents a protocol for a scoping review mapping evidence on psychedelic-occasioned mystical experience and its association with clinical outcomes, but no results are reported.

scoping review protocol

Argues that Shayegan's visionary geography offers a framework for spiritual unity that transcends modern quantitative spatial perceptions, supporting the relevance of mystical concepts.

qualitative study

Proposes a Tripartite Death Model reconciling materialist, religious, and mystical accounts of death as levels of a single structure, but is offered as metaphysical synthesis rather than empirical hypothesis.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Franssens' music opens a space for non-institutional, sonically mediated religion, with listener responses frequently interpreting the music through religious and spiritual language including mystical experience.

case study with digital ethnography and musicological analysis

Argues that Qureshi's anthology was foundational for global reception of Bengali mystical literature but often struggled to preserve the songs' rhythm, musicality, and performative character.

historical analysis

Argues that Sufi concepts of haqiqah and gnosis have philosophical resonance with quantum principles, serving as a conceptual bridge between spirituality and modern science.

qualitative study with library research approach

Argues that the term 'mysticism' in psychedelic research is outdated and misleading, advocating for replacing the Mystical Experience Questionnaire with a Psychedelic Experience Questionnaire to avoid a dubious quasi-religious construct.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Möminə Xatın represents a synthesis of gender, spirituality, and cultural identity, demonstrating the enduring role of women as carriers of metaphysical meaning in Sufi traditions.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that coherence between minds is achieved through understanding and that the direction a life travels is chosen, drawing on contemplative traditions and Jungian structures.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that the Bhagavad Gita can be reinterpreted through a cross-initiatory framework integrating Advaita Vedanta, Dravidian, and Yoruba traditions to propose a 'Spiritual Reparations Paradigm' that re-centers subaltern epistemologies.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Reports a four-part typology of healing and a Three-Pillar theoretical framework emerging from participant-observation across more than 300 psilocybin ceremonies within the African initiatory tradition.

ethnographic study with participant-observation Sample size: 300

Argues that Weil's apophaticism is a method of stripping away obstacles to knowing God and seeing things 'as they really are,' drawing on diverse traditions including Daoism, Hinduism, and Zen Buddhism.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that conceptual blending allows relational intimacy with God and non-conceptual pure awareness to be integrated within contemporary Christian contemplative practice.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that apophatic theology traditionally anticipates the eschaton, but figures like Eckhart subvert this by identifying mystical experience with it, while other apocalyptic discourses treat the apophatic as functional rather than constitutive.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Proposes that effective Kriya centers on guided antakarana alignment, cyclical pranayama-bandha work, and psycho-spiritual initiation as core features of energy-body activation.

emic autoethnography integrated with textual-historical analysis

Proposes that Sufi metaphysics anticipates contemporary ideas in cognitive science and complexity theory, and that its cognitive geometry can be universalized into a new philosophical paradigm called syntopotentialism.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that Feyżī's poetry, building on Persian mystical traditions, used paradox and contradiction to reflect on spiritual experience and challenge established religious binaries, playing a significant role in Mughal debates about religion and tolerance.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Finds that the novel contains symbols of mysticism and the psychology of mysticism, as well as spirituality between humans and the supernatural in Javanese culture.

content analysis

Finds that artistic creation is a lived experience shaped by spiritual discipline, self-effacement (fana), and imaginal encounters, not merely a technical or imaginative act.

qualitative phenomenological-hermeneutical approach Sample size: 3

Argues that psychobiographies of Philip K. Dick illustrate the hermeneutic challenges of interpreting a figure whose reality was fluid and performative, and that these accounts reveal the authors' own perspectives.

biographical and historical analysis

Argues that the phenomenon of 'living saints' flourished during the Italian Wars and declined after 1530, replaced by a contemplative ideal of sanctity.

historical analysis

Reports that mystical-type experiences during ketamine-assisted psychotherapy appeared to play a meaningful role in therapeutic change for a patient with generalized anxiety disorder and migraines.

case study Sample size: 1

Argues that discourse becomes philosophically weak when difficulty is produced by conceptual evasion, and offers the Conceptual Boundary Integrity Test as a diagnostic framework for evaluating claims about AI consciousness, machine suffering, and quantum-spiritual rhetoric.

theoretical or philosophical paper

Argues that mystical experiences and esoteric beliefs influence psychological processes related to wellbeing, personal growth, and meaning-making.

theoretical or philosophical paper