Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
September 1, 2025
Hansol Goo
Abstract:This essay explores the intersection of sacramentality and mysticism in McGinn’s Modern Mystics, particularly his emphasis on God’s transforming presence as central to mystical experience. Mysticism, like the sacraments, is marked by divine encounter, marginality, and mediated presence. In light of McGinn’s use of “presence” and figures like Simone Weil and Michel de Certeau,...
Aradha Journal of Divinity Peace and Conflict Studies
August 30, 2025
J. Butarbutar
AbstractThis article explores the concept of a marginalised God in the context of modernity and postmodernity, where secularization is understood not as the erasure of religion but as a transformation of humanity’s relationship with the Divine. Through a transdisciplinary approach integrating theopoetics, mystical paths, and sexuality, the text critically reflects on reconstructing spirituality...
ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
August 29, 2025
Oliver Thorndike
1 citation
This paper explores the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration between science and the humanities, with a focus on recent advancements in psychedelic-assisted therapy. It provides an overview of key concepts in this emerging field and identifies research gaps that offer opportunities for interdisciplinary integration. Adopting a non-reductionist naturalist framework, the paper views...
Religions
August 27, 2025
Jinjing Zhu
This paper examines the four-stage process of mystical experience in the Huzi and Lady Yu allegories of the Zhuangzi. It begins with a lifeless stage enabled by the mystic’s purgation of the world and the self. It is followed by a revitalization stage in which Oneness is experienced not only as the introvertive experience of the self but also as the extrovertive truth of reality. It is then...
NeuroSci
August 27, 2025
Alexander Thomas, R Andrew Chambers
4 citations
Interest in ketamine as a novel treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) has been increasing due to its N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor antagonism and mounting evidence that glutamate neurotransmission is involved in the pathogenesis of both depression and addictions. This narrative review provides an outline of clinical evidence reported in the literature from the 1970s to...
Anthropology of Consciousness
August 27, 2025
Lisa L. Gezon, Kenton Bartlett
1 citation
ABSTRACT The interplay between psychedelic use, mental health, and spiritual, religious, or ‘mystical’ experiences continues to be investigated through clinical research. While many studies focus on general mechanisms underlying these compounds, analysis of real‐life accounts from individuals is underrepresented. To fill that gap, this ethnographic study explores the question of how members of...
Creative Saplings
August 25, 2025
Ankita Mishra
Kabir Das and Swami Vivekananda were two mammoth Indian mystic saints and poets. Their fundamental works cannot be quantified. The paper involves critical and comparative analysis of spiritual and literary aspects of poems by Kabir Das and Swami Vivekananda-two champions whose poems cut across tradition and time, across orthodoxy. The 15th-century mystic poet Kabir expressed a radical spiritual...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 22, 2025
Matthew D. Greaves, Tamrin Barta, Leonardo Novelli et al.
preprint
Abstract The extent to which anatomical connectivity constrains pharmacologically altered brain dynamics remains poorly understood. Here, we combined psilocybin administration with a structurally informed effective-connectivity model to examine how structural connectivity shapes directed inter-regional influences across experiential contexts. Using dynamic causal modeling embedded in a...
Research Square
August 22, 2025
Richard J. Zeifman, George Danias, Gabrielle Agin-Liebes et al.
2 citations
preprint
Abstract Background: Psychedelics can acutely induce mystical experiences and elevated positive mood, which may contribute to the potential benefits of psychedelic therapy. However, there remains limited understanding of the occurrence and importance of specific positive emotional experiences within psychedelic therapy. Therefore, we examined the effects of psychedelics on positive emotional...
Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne
August 14, 2025
R. Warchał
This paper examines the epistemological, ontological and mystical aspects of St. Augustine's thought, showing how his reflection on faith, religious experience and cognition shapes a coherent vision of the human relationship with God. The central theme is the search for the light of truth, which, in Augustine's view, involves both intellectual speculation and profound spiritual experience. The...