Open MIND
July 20, 2026
Numan Ahmad
This is the a priori protocol for a scoping review (JBI methodology; PRISMA-ScR reporting) mapping evidence on (1) the measurement of psychedelic-occasioned mystical/spiritual experience and its association with clinical outcomes, and (2) classic serotonergic psychedelics for body dysmorphic disorder and obsessive-compulsive-spectrum conditions, interpreted through the osteopathic...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 20, 2026
Bruno Tonetto
Abstract: Psychological and contemplative configurations — the neuroses, the depressions, psychopathy, psychosis, dissociative identity, awakening — occupy a single structured space. This essay maps it. Under analytic idealism, an individual mind is a dissociated alter of mind-at-large, and the alter's boundary admits a formal description as a Markov blanket; the architectural claim developed...
Religions
July 19, 2026
Tamer Yıldırım
This article explores spiritual unity beyond physical boundaries through the theme of the “geography of the soul,” conceptualized by Dariush Shayegan (1925–2018) as “visionary geography”. This study criticizes the quantitative world perception that emerged following the post-Galilean reduction of nature to a mathematical object, as well as a modernity that imprisons humanity within the...
Religions
July 18, 2026
M.J.M. Hoondert, Nataliia Vdovychenko
This article explores the relationship between music and religion through a case study of Harmony of the Spheres by the Dutch composer Joep Franssens. Situated within the context of religious change in the Netherlands, where institutional religion has declined while spiritual and sacred repertoires remain culturally significant, this article asks how musical experience can generate, mediate, or...
Figshare
July 18, 2026
Belarmina Garcia
This work advances the Tripartite Death Model: the claim that a human being is not a single entity facing a single fate at death, but three distinct constituents — Body, Mind, and Soul — each deconstructed by its own logic and arriving at a genuinely different destination. Drawing on Christian, Vedantic, Buddhist, and Sufi sources, near-death experience research, the Tibetan Bardo Thodol,...
BHĀBANAGARA International Journal of Bengal Studies
July 17, 2026
Published in Paris in 1977, Mahmud Shah Qureshi’s Poèmes Mystiques Bengalis was the first substantial anthology to translate Bengali Baul and Fakir songs directly from Bengali into French. Prepared within the broader intellectual and cultural framework of UNESCO’s Collection of Representative Works, the volume introduced French readers to the mystical, philosophical, and performative traditions...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 17, 2026
Iin Inayatul Ummah, Suadi Sa'ad, Ade Fakih Kurniawan
This study aims to analyze the philosophical relationship between the concepts of haqiqah and gnosis in Sufism with the basic principles of Quantum theory through an interdisciplinary approach. This study is motivated by the growing discussion on the relationship between spirituality and modern science, particularly Quantum theory, which offers a new view of reality, consciousness, and the...
Psychopharmacology
July 17, 2026
Richard Saville-Smith, Sharday Mosurinjohn
This paper critiques the use of the term "mysticism" in psychedelic research, arguing its continued use is outdated and misleading. It highlights the confusion stemming from the historical context of "mysticism," particularly through the works of Walter Stace and Walter Pahnke, whose ideas have shaped the psychedelic discourse despite being flawed and largely unexamined. The paper is divided...
Baltic Journal of Legal and Social Sciences
July 15, 2026
Sevinj Zakir Abbasova
This article examines Möminə Xatın as a metaphysical symbol of Azerbaijani female Sufism through an interdisciplinary analysis combining historical, architectural, and mystical perspectives. Within the broader framework of Sufi philosophy, the feminine is conceptualized as a central metaphysical principle associated with divine love, illumination, and spiritual proximity. The study explores how...
July 14, 2026
Cyril O’Regan
Abstract Apophatic theology in the Christian tradition connotes far more than a peak experience of union with the transcendent God who exceeds name and concept. For Christian thinkers East and West such experiences were considered an adumbration in time of the eschatological state as one of permanent beatitude, whether this state was considered more nearly in static terms (as in the West) or...
July 14, 2026
Emmanuel Gabellieri, Simone Kotva
Abstract Simone Weil stands squarely within the apophatic tradition, but she also occupies an original position within it, having developed many themes in the wake of a mystical experience at the age of 29. One such theme, which originated in her meditation on Christ’s kenosis (Ph. 2:7) and how we can imitate it, is that of “decreation” (décréation). Another is attention (l’attention), which...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
KRIYA Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This article presents an authoritative, initiated-insider account of the methods, lineage history, and embodied practices synthesized in the book KRIYA (Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Swamikal, & Shumake, 2026). Writing from a...
Metaphor and the Social World
July 14, 2026
Peter Richardson, Charles M. Mueller
Abstract This paper examines how contemporary Christian contemplative discourse integrates two apparently opposed construals of religious experience: relational intimacy with a divine entity and non-conceptual states of pure awareness. We argue that relational intimacy is conceptualized through warmth, connection, spatial proximity, shared will, and resonance, underpinned by a linked goal...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Jamison Johnson
Directions is a standalone lyric-philosophical prose meditation on conscious thought in time. Beginning from the question of what a mind thinks of itself once it accepts the insignificance of the body it is attached to, the essay moves through a five-stage contemplative exercise — Comfort, Darkness, Life, Descent, Arrival — drawing on Transcendental Meditation, the Silva method, and Sanskrit...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Shumake, Robert S. (ajarn Shaman Shu | Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Phd | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal)
Shurooms: The First Ethnomycological Study from Within the African Initiatory Tradition — Ewe, Soma, and the Ceremonial Architecture of Psilocybin Healing (N = 300+) This flagship paper presents the first ethnomycological study of psilocybin ceremony authored from within the African initiatory tradition — not by an outside observer, clinical researcher, or journalist, but by an initiated...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
July 14, 2026
Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ajarn Shaman Shu, Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal et al.
The Gita of the Awakened Self Authors: Oluwo Jolaoso Osainbola, Ph.D. | Ajarn Shaman Shu | Shri Suryanarayana Swamikal | Robert Shumake, Ph.D. Affiliation: Buddha University® & Orisha University This article presents the core arguments and interpretive architecture of The Gita of the Awakened Self, a cross-initiatory re-reading of the Bhagavad Gita that engages Advaita Vedanta, Tamil–Dravidian...
July 12, 2026
Nina Bilokopytova
The beginning of the twenty-first century has been marked by profound transformations in the ways reality, human beings, and society are understood. The rapid development of cognitive science, neuroscience, complexity theory, synergetics, quantum physics, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence has prompted a fundamental reconsideration of many traditional assumptions concerning the...
July 10, 2026
Fatemeh Naghshvarian
How did religious poets contribute to ideas about religion, tolerance, and spiritual truth in the Mughal Empire? This dissertation examines the poetry of Feyżī (1547–1595), the poet laureate of the Mughal emperor Akbar. Feyżī wrote during a period in which Emperor Akbar promoted a vision of peaceful coexistence among people of different religious backgrounds, known as ṣulḥ-i kull ("universal...
Journal of Language, Literature, Social and Cultural Studies
July 9, 2026
Zahwa Aliya Rastiani, Afita Putri Korindri, Mitha Adinda Kusumaningrum et al.
This research focuses on the symbols of mysticism and the psychology of mysticism in the novel Hilang Dalam Dekapan Semeru (Aditya, 2025). Mystical symbols such as the figure of a woman dressed in white, frankincense, offerings, dolls, free-range chicken eggs, seven-faced flowers, and the mystical experiences of climbers are analysed in the real world and the supernatural world in Javanese...
OPSearch American Journal of Open Research
July 8, 2026
Alfathri Adlin, Yasraf Amir Piliang, Bambang Sugiharto et al.
This study is grounded in the growing concern over the separation between artistic creativity and spiritual experience in contemporary scholarship. While imagination is often treated as a cognitive or aesthetic function, its deeper existential and transcendent dimensions remain underexplored. The objective of this research is to examine how artistic creation is shaped by imaginal experiences...
July 6, 2026
D. Harlan Wilson
Dick’s psychobiographies foreground his complex identity, mystical experiences, and struggles with mental health. Psychobiographers like Gregg Rickman, Anthony Peake, Kyle Arnold, and Erik Davis apply varied lenses, from trauma and psychosis to precognition and psychoanalysis; their biotexts occupy a Phildickian asylum mundi that illustrates the hermeneutic challenges of interpreting a figure...
July 5, 2026
Margery J. Schneider
This chapter explores female sanctity from the medieval period through the early modern era, with a focus on the phenomenon of the “living saints” ( sante vive ). These charismatic figures, renowned for their abstinence, mystical experiences, prophetic abilities, and miracles, were venerated by the people and sought by princes as spiritual advisors, and their prophetic powers surpassed those of...
July 3, 2026
Rohitth Ajay, Srishti Muralidharan
This chapter explores mystical experiences and esoteric belief systems by examining their influences in terms of cognition, emotion regulation, identity formation, and mental health. It also traces how historical marginalization of esotericism shaped thought processes through which individuals validate their mystical experiences. Within this context, mystical traditions are addressed as...
Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University)
July 3, 2026
Osama S Qatrani
Philosophy does not fail when it becomes difficult; it fails when it becomes non-examinable. Original tool CBIT: a test for definition, method, evidence, and metaphor control. Published cases Dennett-style imitation, LLM consciousness, and quantum-consciousness overextension. Aim Defend interdisciplinary dialogue from method substitution and false depth. Boundary is not censorship; boundary is...