At-Thullab : Jurnal Mahasiswa Studi Islam
January 31, 2025
Angga Arifka
This article investigates Sufism and its closeness with the so-called mysticism. Indeed, mysticism is chiefly characterized by mystical experience, referring to, broadly speaking, that of union with the ultimate reality. On this basis, Sufism also evinces mystical experience from which the Sufis elaborate some terminological concepts such as fanā’, wahdat al-wujūd, ittihād, etc. As a...
پژوهشنامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامههای علوم انسانی
January 8, 2025
Zeynab Shariatnia, Hadi Vakili
This article seeks to critique and review the book “The Essence of Mystical Knowledge” by Massoud Ismaili. In this book, the writer has tried to examine the nature of mystical knowledge in two Islamic and western spaces taking a look at the comparative approach in a comprehensive system. If the criterion for our assessment is the degree to which the outer succeeds and does not succeed in...
Sibirskiy psikhologicheskiy zhurnal
2025
N. I. Nelyubin
The subject of the article is the heuristic potential of the concept of peak experiences developed by A. Maslow. On the initiative of V.I. Kabrin, this concept returns to the center of research and applied interests of modern anthropologically oriented psychology, striving to overcome the epistemological stencils that limit the construction of a holistic view of man and his diverse...
2025
Michael Hill, J. Milam
Fear of death and disease preoccupied the European consciousness throughout the early modern era, becoming most acute at times of plague and epidemics. In these times of heightened anxieties, images of saints and protectors served to reassure the faithful of their religious protection against infection. Modes of visual engagement and devotional subject matter were coupled in new ways to...
Studia Koszalińsko-Kołobrzeskie
2025
Ewa Czaplicka
Autorka artykułu analizuje tajemnicę wcielenia i odkupienia Chrystusa w świetle przesłania Pisma Świętego oraz mistycznych doświadczeń św. Faustyny Kowalskiej. Boże miłosierdzie, będące fundamentem wiary, objawia się w pełni poprzez życie, śmierć i zmartwychwstanie Chrystusa. W Biblii te wydarzenia przedstawiane są jako realizacja odwiecznego planu Bożego zbawienia, mającego na celu...
Studia Paradyskie
2025
Tadeusz Kuźmicki
Mistykę często utożsamia się niemal wyłącznie ze sferą duchową, co sprawia, że traci ona swoje istotne odniesienie do rzeczywistości widzialnej i ludzkiego działania. Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje próbę ukazania etycznych aspektów wynikających z doświadczenia mistycznego — rozumianego jako głębokie przeżywanie obecności Boga — na przykładzie trzech postaci: św. Augustyna z Hippony, św. Faustyny...
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
2025
Nina M Sooter, Federico Seragnoli, Fabienne Picard
Ecstatic epilepsy is a rare form of focal epilepsy linked to the anterior insula in which patients experience a blissful state with a unique set of symptoms, including a feeling of physical well-being, mental clarity, a sense of oneness with the universe, and time dilation. In this chapter, we reflect on how these symptoms coincide with our current knowledge of the insula's functions and...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
2025
Aminata Bicego, Naji Alnagger, Etzel Cardeña et al.
1 citation
Mystical-type experiences can be induced through techniques like hypnosis and meditation. These experiences are common in near-death experiences (NDEs) and have been linked to paranormal beliefs. This study explored auto-induced cognitive trance (AICT) as a method to induce mystical-type experiences and NDE outside of life threatening situations (NDE-like), as well as examining the influence of...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
2025
Gary R Elkins
The potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelic, mystical experiences, and peak spiritual experiences are of increasing interest among clinicians, researchers, and the public. Several studies have proposed potential parallels between the altered states of consciousness associated with psychedelics and hypnosis. Although there has been increased interest in psychedelics, mystical experiences,...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
2025
Elias C Acevedo, Scott Uhler, Kaitlyn P White et al.
15 citations
Interest in psychedelics and their possible therapeutic potential has been growing. Metaphysical belief theory asserts that these benefits stem from the adoption of comforting supernatural beliefs following a mystical experience. By contrast, predictive self-binding theory suggests that the beneficial outcomes of psychedelics are primarily driven by psychological insights. The present study...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Johannes T. Reckweg, Natasha L. Mason, Eef L. Theunissen et al.
2 citations
A three-item Peak Experience Scale (PES) was developed to rapidly evaluate the strength of the psychoactive experience, and to guide the dosing regimen, of the psychedelic 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT; mebufotenin). This paper aims to compare the PES with a range of established questionnaires designed to evaluate the psychedelic experience. Data were gathered from three separate...
Frontiers in Psychology
2025
Paul F Cook, Laurra M Aagaard, Lisa Krug Avery et al.
Nursing students are at risk for traumatic stress, but current treatments have limited benefits. Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM) is a verbal psychotherapeutic approach to help people safely re-experience troubling memories, then integrate them into meaningful life narratives. RIM's developers propose a mechanism of action based on nonconscious processes like emotional processing and body...