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12 results for "Meta-analysis: What did research on Mysticism find in April 2026?"

Geç Osmanlı Düşüncesinde Ruh Problemi: Filibeli Ahmet Hilmi Örneği

İlahiyat Tetkikleri Dergisi April 30, 2026 Fatih Aydın

Bu çalışma, Şehbenderzâde Filibeli Ahmed Hilmi’nin ruh anlayışını İslâm düşünce geleneği’nin Batı felsefesiyle kurduğu eklektik ve eleştirel ilişkiler bağlamında incelemeyi hedeflemektedir. Araştırmanın temel amacı, müellifin ruhu bireysel bir varlık ilkesi olmasının yanında metafizik bir cevher ve ahlâkî bir fail olarak nasıl konumlandırdığını çözümlemek ve bu tasavvurun dönemindeki...

Integration of Geopsychiatry: A Synthesis and Analysis of Case Studies and Field Research on Possession Trance Disorder (PTD) in Indonesia

Medical Journal Awatara April 30, 2026 Pardomuan Robinson Sihombing

Background: In Indonesia, the treatment of the phenomenon of Possession Trance Disorder (PTD) and visual hallucinations is often hampered by the dichotomy between medical and spiritual approaches. Many interventions fail because they rely solely on theoretical assumptions without sufficient empirical field evidence. Objective: This study aims to dissect the etiology, mechanisms, and...

The Phenomenology of Ma‘rifat al-Hallaj: Interpreting Anā al-Ḥaqq Amidst the Spiritual Crisis of the Contemporary Era

Tasfiyah Jurnal Pemikiran Islam April 30, 2026 Moh. Sholeh Baharis, Abdul Kadir Riyadi

This article examines the phenomenology of al-Hallaj’s ma‘rifat through an interpretation of the phrase “Anā al-Ḥaqq” in the context of the contemporary spiritual crisis. The main research questions include: how al-Hallaj’s ma‘rifat is understood as a transformation of mystical consciousness, how “Anā al-Ḥaqq” is interpreted phenomenologically, and how this experience is relevant in addressing...

Secular Mysticism: Entanglements of Science and Religion in Psychedelic Medicine.

Cult Med Psychiatry April 29, 2026 Aidan Seale-Feldman

Psychedelic medicine is a rapidly growing, billion-dollar industry poised to transform mental health care by incorporating spiritual experiences into clinical psychiatry. However, while the blending of psychiatry and mystical experience has long made this field unique, the blurred boundaries between science and spiritual practice have sparked increasing public debate. What does the entanglement...

Understanding mystical experiences through the lens of entropy: introduction to the special issue on ‘mystical entropy’

Philosophical Psychology April 27, 2026 Michiel van Elk

Scholars of religion have had a long-standing interest in the study of mystical experiences (Schmidt, 2003), dating back to the work of William James (James, 1902). James listed ineffability, noeti...

Alternative Orientalism

Journal of the Council for Research on Religion April 24, 2026 Mohammad Meerzaei

Henry Corbin (1903–1978), through his extensive contributions to Islamic and Iranian studies, introduced a paradigm shift in modern Western scholarship on Iran and Islam. As a counternarrative to classical Orientalism’s relegation of Islamic societies, Corbin’s construction of “Iranian Islam” generated a comprehensive body of knowledge that valorized Iran as a model for the West. He depicted...

From Shamanic Trance to Spiritual Consciousness: Mapping the Earliest Roots of Human Spirituality

International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research April 19, 2026 Krushnakant Nagargoje, Arvind Rawat, Kirti Maurya

The origins of human spirituality extend far beyond organised religions and formal philosophical systems, emerging instead from early experiential practices embedded within indigenous cultures

Mystical Knowledge and the Limits of Reason: A Comparative Study of al-Ghazālī and Gregory Palamas

Sophia April 16, 2026 Milad Milani, Zolt Salontai

Abstract This article offers a comparative study of the religious epistemologies of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and Gregory Palamas, highlighting their shared resistance to the overintellectualization of theology through Greek philosophical categories. Both thinkers critique the limitations of Aristotelian and Platonic conceptions of knowledge, particularly their abstraction of the divine and the...

Calculation and Collapse: How Parametric Introspection Enables Minimal-Dual Breakthrough

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 11, 2026 Tenzin Trepp

Contemporary accounts of mystical “non-dual” or minimal-dual consciousness often describe a state beyond the ordinary subject–object framework. In this paper we propose a novel parametric introspection framework, according to which such a breakthrough is not achieved by doctrinal affirmation or mere insight into metaphysics, but by driving specific introspective parameters to critical values....

"Self Is Not the Endpoint": Structural Convergence Across Three Religious Traditions and Three Psychoanalytic Frameworks / "自我不是终点":三个宗教传统与三个精神分析框架的结构性汇聚

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) April 7, 2026 Qin Han

Description Six intellectual traditions — Buddhism, philosophical Daoism (Zhuangzi), Christianity (Pauline epistles and mystical tradition), Freud's structural psychoanalysis, Jung's analytical psychology, and SAE psychoanalysis — independently arrive at a structurally similar judgment: the self (the reflexive, boundary-maintaining layer that discriminates "mine" from "not mine") is not the...

Psychoactive Substances in Daoist Practice: A Cultural and Historical Perspective

Religions April 2, 2026 Qiongke Geng

This paper systematically investigates psychoactive substances and their ritual consumption practices within the Daoist cultivation tradition. As a category of Daoist ingestive (fushi 服食) culture, these substances, derived either from specific botanicals or through artificial synthesis, are ceremonially administered to induce mystical experiences in practitioners, ultimately facilitating their...

A Panpsychist Theory of Shamanism

Suomen Antropologi Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society April 1, 2026 Olof Ohlson

This paper develops a quadripartite panpsychist theory of shamanism(s). This fourpart framework revives and combines four theories: (i) mystical constructivism, (ii) role-taking theory, and (iii) mental imagery cultivation as a cultural practice founded upon (iv) a panpsychist philosophy of ultimate reality. I argue that this quadripartite model allows for the recognition of something ‘real’ in...