Schizophrenia Research
December 1, 2015
Louis Sass, Juan P Borda
44 citations
Schizophrenia is a diverse and varying syndrome that defies most attempts at classification and pathogenetic explanation. This is the second of two articles offering a comprehensive model meant to integrate an understanding of schizophrenia-related forms of subjectivity, especially anomalous core-self experience (disturbed ipseity), with neurocognitive and neurodevelopmental findings....
October 2, 2015
Katherine Olivetti
When friends and colleagues ask me if I believe in astrology, I always tell them I don’t believe in astrology; I study it. More than three decades ago, I walked into astrologer and Jungian analyst Julie Bresciani’s sanctuary in Manhattan for the first astrology reading I’d ever experienced. I walked out sobbing, my heart touched deeply, for the truths that were reflected to me from the mandala...
Jung Journal
October 2, 2015
Katherine Olivetti
1 citation
In conversation with Katherine Olivetti, Stanislav Grof and Richard Tarnas, who have collaborated for over four decades, speak candidly, exploring perinatal experience, non-ordinary states of consciousness, archetypal patterns, and astrology as a transpersonal phenomenon.
Archives of Clinical Psychiatry (São Paulo)
October 1, 2015
Marco Aurélio Vinhosa Bastos, Paulo Roberto Haidamus de Oliveira Bastos, Lídia Gonçalves et al.
32 citations
Background Mediumship can be defined as the alleged ability to communicate with deceased persons. The last decade has been particularly productive for this field of research and the study of mediumship can help the understanding of the human mind-brain relationship and provide objective data to the scientific community and to the general population. Objective The aim of this review is to...
Journal of Religion and Health
October 1, 2015
Hemant Bhargav, Aarti Jagannathan, Nagarathna Raghuram et al.
Many aspects of spiritual experience are similar in form and content to symptoms of psychosis. Both spiritually advanced people and patients suffering from psychopathology experience alterations in their sense of 'self.' Psychotic experiences originate from derangement of the personality, whereas spiritual experiences involve systematic thinning out of the selfish ego, allowing individual...
Hybris
September 30, 2015
Szymon Nowak
PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE AND ITS COGNITIVE FUNCTION Among the features marking a mystical experience facilitated by certain kind of psychedelic substances researchers singled out the so-called noetic quality, which indicates that mystical experiences can have a cognitive significance. The main goal of my article is then to address the question, whether this cognitive capacity of mystical...
Fortschritte der Neurologie · Psychiatrie
September 30, 2015
Leopold Hermle, Martin Ruchsow, Kerstin Täschner
20 citations
Consistent with the ICD-10 (F16.70) definition "Flashback" is often used to describe brief visual perceptual, mood, and altered states of consciousness effects reminiscent of acute hallucinogen intoxication effects. Many users regard flashback phenomena as benign and even pleasant. HPPD is described in DSM-5 as a visual perceptual disorder, sometimes persisting for months or years causing...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion
September 3, 2015
Michael Stoeber
6 citations
Abstract The comparative study of mysticism began in the mid-19th century, with the development of the modern meaning of the word, which had begun to be used as a substantive, with the classification of “mystics” in the 17th century. This differed from the traditional Greek Christian use of the adjective mystikos, to qualify rituals, scriptures, sacraments, and theology as “mystical” contexts...
Psychology of Consciousness Theory Research and Practice
September 1, 2015
Melanie G. Rosen
7 citations
To what extent do I have a sense of agency over my thoughts while I dream? The sense of agency in dreams can alter in a variety of interesting ways distinct from normal, waking experience. In fact, dreams show many similarities to the experiences of individuals with schizophrenia. In this paper I analyze these alterations with a focus on distinguishing between reduced sense of agency and other...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
August 28, 2015
Andries van Aarde
Millennialism, eschatology, and apocalypticism. This aricle consists of four parts. Firstly, it describes briefly and elementarily the origins of millennialism as it manifested in the history of theoligy. Secondly, it reflects on some of the new and challenging ways New Testament scholars nowadays study eschatology and apocalypticism from a social-scientific perspecive on the conception of time...