Mikhail Aleksandrovich Novoselov belongs to the cultural figures of Russia, whose inquisitive mind, towards the end of the 19th century, sought new meanings in personal and social life amidst the historical and cultural modernization of Russia and later affirmed these meanings within Christianity at the beginning of the 20th century. From a young age, Mikhail Novoselov was acquainted with Leo...
Iqbal and Bergson have remarkably similar views on Mystical Experience. Both believed in the validity rather superiority of the knowledge achieved through Mystical Experience. Both had a desire to establish knowledge on some firm ground which is beyond any doubt. Moreover, both wished to make room for Metaphysics in an era (20th Century) which was ferociously hostile for this discipline. They...
This article aims to find out how the mystical journey is formed in the world's major religions, which this time focuses on Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism. By knowing how the differences and similarities will later grow a lot of understanding about the search or encounter with things that are sacred (God) in the comparison of three religions. The methodiused in thisiarticle isiqualitative,...
This study aimed to determine whether the 30-item Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30) is suitable for measuring non-psychedelic mystical experiences or whether a subset of questions from the 43-item Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ43) is more appropriate. Participants (N = 136) completed an online survey about their non-psychedelic mystical experience, which included the MEQ43 and...
Cannabis and classic psychedelics are controlled substances with emerging evidence of efficacy in the treatment of a variety of psychiatric illnesses. Cannabis has largely not been regarded as having psychedelic effects in contemporary literature, despite many examples of historical use along with classic psychedelics to attain altered states of consciousness. Research into the “psychedelic”...
ABSTRACT In this discussion of The Bad Seed: Mystical Experiences and Time Travel in the Treatment of Psychopathy, I focus on the role of psychedelics in the remarkable clinical account Burton offers. A model for understanding psychedelic action in psychoanalytic terms is put forth, and the account of Seth’s journey is framed in this light. The understanding of psychedelics as facilitating a...
ABSTRACT This is a reply to the discussions by Arthur Fox, Megan Rundel, and Jeffrey Guss. Clarification is made on the utility of diagnosis, as well as further elaboration on what is common to both psychedelic states and the altered states of consciousness encountered in deep psychoanalytic work. Additional thoughts on the integration of a relational multiple self-state model with psychedelic...
Psychopathy has long been considered untreatable. The purpose of this paper is to provide a report from the field on therapeutic gains made in the case of a psychopathic personality and to outline what appear to be the most effective aspects of the treatment, as well as to help integrate current psychedelic research and theory with psychoanalytic theory. These therapeutic factors include:...
Panikkar’s philosophy of mysticism is best understood as an attempt to overcome monistic and dualistic ways of thinking about the divine, human beings and the universe. Mysticism, for Panikkar, is irreducible to either monistic experiences of oneness without a second or to dualistic experiences where the divine is seen as wholly other. Rather, mysticism relates to holistic experiences of...
This groundbreaking study addresses a niche area within mysticism research, exploring the confluence of totemic spiritual practices and distinct mystical experiences. Moving beyond conventional Abrahamic viewpoints, it interrogates mainstream frameworks that either marginalize or pathologize these spiritual occurrences. Utilizing a cross-disciplinary approach that integrates religious studies,...
This paper is mainly concerned with mystical experience in Emily Dickinson's later poems (composed between 1864 and 1886) to show the poet's spiritual growth and her attitude to the love of the Divine. It aims at analyzing and interpreting the poetry of Emily Dickinson from a mystical point of view. Most of Dickinson's poems trace themes like death, love and spiritual ecstasy. It proposes that...
This essay relates a Heideggerian interpretation of metaphysics, as determined by an interpretation of Being in terms of a priori laws/essences, to a traditionally passive model of experience. The spiritual principles of the Christian and the Buddhist experience of the Nothing are shown as an overcoming of this model and an overcoming of metaphysics. The essay displays the ways in which...
ABSTRACT The scientific study of psychedelic, religious, spiritual, and mystical (PRSM) experiences can be advanced by applying culturally inclusive qualitative methodologies that illuminate the breadth and depth of individual experiences in a variety of contexts. To enrich the common core thesis of mysticism and offer insights that could contribute more generally to bridging the gap between...
Abstract I propose that positive mood should not be among the criteria for determining when or if psychedelic experiences are mystical. My primary reasons are: 1) unlike rare proposed mystical criteria such as feelings of self-dissolution and time-transcendence, positive mood does not clearly separate mystical experiences from other emotionally powerful experiences like being in love; 2) other...
Desire: An Inoperative Language? Exploring the Mystical Experience of Bernard of Clairvaux with the Philosophical Thought of Giorgio Agamben was published in Der Mensch als Bild des unergründlichen Gottes on page 211.
The present article attempts to clarify the relationship between the 'mystical experience' and 'paradoxical statement'; the first section is concerned with the main function of the said categories in the realm of language which is removing the language from the routine and spiritless mode and bringing it to life; that is, speaking in a real language and expressing what is in the heart. The...
The aim of the current study was to explore mindfulness and mystical experiences in Sufis and non-Sufis. Purposive sampling was used to collect the sample of 30 Sufis and 30 non-Sufis from members of Muslim Institute Lahore and two government universities of Lahore, respectively. The instruments used were a mystical orientation scale and a Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire. The results...
Respondents with experience in the use of psychedelics (psilocybin, LSD, ketamine, MDMA, etc.) participated in the study. Based on the subjective assessment of the level of awareness in the topic of psychedelics, it was found that 49% of respondents have a high level, 47% have an average level, and 4% have a low level of awareness in the topic. Most of the study participants were in Ukraine...
Adam Zagajewski’s essays on poets and poetry are interpreted here in the context of scholarly debates about the specificities of mystical experience. From the four criteria the great American philosopher and psychologist William James developed in 1902, “transiency” and “passivity” can be brought together as indicators of what I call the inescapability of mystical experience, while the two...
In this paper we elaborate on Jung’s three theses which we consider to be the main “keys” to the understanding of Jung’s psychology of religion: the symbolism of the religious, the syncretic-eclectic view of religion, and the thesis that the “mystical unity” of the Soul and the God is the core of any true religiosity. According to Jung’s teachings, the Self represents the wholeness of other...