Constructing Mystical Experiences: a Critique of the Mystical Paradigm in Psychedelic Research
Hollis Phelps
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
|---|---|
| Topics | Mystical experience |
| Key points | Argues that the "mystical paradigm" in psychedelic research is a constructed interpretive framework rather than a neutral account of experience, and that its assumptions about religion, experience, and subjectivity shape research and clinical claims. Proposes greater reflexivity about how the category of "mystical experience" is produced and deployed. |
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Comparable studies
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| Study | Year | Design | Participants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Religious and Mystical Experiences as Artifacts of Temporal Lobe Function: A General Hypothesis | 1983 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The Psychedelic Mystical Experience in the Human Encounter with Death | 1969 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Vectorial Cerebral Hemisphericity as Differential Sources for the Sensed Presence, Mystical Experiences and Religious Conversions | 1993 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| The epistemic innocence of psychedelic states. | 2016 | Theoretical or philosophical paper | |
| Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine | 1982 | Theoretical or philosophical paper |