TeosofiJune 15, 2025Kholid Al Walid, Waode Zainab Zilullah Toresano, Rosmaria Syafariyah Widjayanti et al.
This paper investigates the philosophical and mystical concept of ‘Ālam al-Mithāl (The Imaginal World) in Islamic thought as analternative framework for understanding religious experience. Despite the acknowledgement of its importance, contemporary discourse has yet to undertake a systematic philosophical inquiry into how ‘Ālam al-Mithāl, as a spiritual epistemology, provides rational grounds...
This paper explores an alternative model of consciousness—the B-Man Stra/Tac model—which challenges the dominant view that consciousness emerges from complex brain activity. Drawing on the philosophical arguments of (Nagel, 1974) and theoretical considerations inspired by Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem as interpreted by Penrose (Howard, 2025c), this model proposes that consciousness resides in...
Full text (opens in new tab)B-man stra/tacDynamic algorithms/consciousness systemTheory of consciousnessConsciousness theory+4
bioRxivJune 14, 2025Michael Gruenwald, Sebastien De Landtsheer, Thomas Huebl et al.
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Psychological trauma is associated with significant alterations of biological functions and is correlated with epigenetic changes specifically of DNA methylation. Trauma therapy is aiming at relieving the impact of trauma and is in initial studies also correlated with changes in DNA methylation. In this study we explored the changes in whole blood DNA methylation of participants of a program...
Preprints.orgJune 13, 2025Gopikrishna Deshpande, Joshita Majumdar, D. Rangaprakash
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Mysticism has been an integral part of human society for ages. It involves both spirituality and religiosity. The former is associated with attaining higher states of consciousness without an essential belief in a supernatural power (or God), while the latter does. While there is plenty of speculative literature available on these topics, we instead focus on peer-reviewed scientific literature...
Summary This case study focuses on the experiences of mystical healing practices exemplified by Butati Dham in Rajasthan, India. Butati Dham, a revered site for mystical healing, offers a compelling case study of how Indigenous wellness tourism transcends modern scientific rationality to meet deep psychological and spiritual needs. The Dham’s rich spiritual heritage, rooted in the legend of...
Institutionally supported studies on psychedelic use are growing tremendously in the United States, leading US mass media outlets to declare a psychedelic renaissance. Interestingly, national survey data also indicate increases in nonmedical psychedelic use. Largely due to the reinstatement of system-supported psychedelic experiments, the dominant cultural narrative of psychedelic use today...
Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) remains a challenge, with many patients unresponsive to standard antidepressants. NN-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a fast-acting psychedelic, offers potential benefits due to its rapid onset and short duration. This review, registered with the Open Science Framework (DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/6D9WC), summarizes the safety and tolerability of DMT in early-phase...
Introduction Psychedelics, such as psilocybin, are increasingly recognized for their propensity to elicit powerful subjective experiences that carry personal meaning. While research has demonstrated the capacity for these compounds to promote psychological wellbeing, it has yet to be shown to what extent they modulate "meaning in life", a specific contributor to mental and physical health....
This paper explores the intricacies of mystical precepts, the concept of spiritual ascendency, and the construction of meaning within the poetic works of two seminal figures of Sub-continental mysticism: Baba Ghulam Farid and Baba Guru Nanak. Drawing from post-structuralist theoretical frameworks, especially the works of Derrida and Foucault, the study interrogates the interplay of language,...
This chapter discusses Sylvia Leclercq’s fascination with mysticism in Julia Kristeva’s novel Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila . Sylvia, a psychoanalyst and academic, like Kristeva herself, ponders the question of female mysticism throughout the historical novel. She knows that Freud was dismissive of mysticism, which he called the “oceanic” feeling. Kristeva offers us a...