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New Blackfriars March 28, 2025 George Karuvelil
This article considers the question whether we can have direct, non-inferential knowledge of God, as experientialists such as Alston and Plantinga claim. Moreover, this needs to be done in a way that takes religious diversity into account. I contend that two developments in recent philosophy enable us to argue for direct knowledge of God in an inter-religious manner. The first is naturalized...
arXiv Preprint Archive March 28, 2025 Marcus J. Glennon, Catherine Bird, Prateek Yadav et al. preprint
Setting up a psychedelic study can be a long, arduous, and kafkaesque process. This rapidly-developing field poses several unique challenges for researchers, necessitating a range of considerations that have not yet been standardised. Many of the complexities inherent to psychedelic research also challenge existing assumptions around, for example, approaches to psychiatric prescribing, the...
Religions March 26, 2025 Liz MacWhirter
Post-Theoretical “creative–critical” research recently emerged in the discipline of Creative Writing as a collapse of the binaries between practice and Theory. This article shows that using this interdisciplinary methodology in the study of mysticism is a natural fit, illustrating its efficacy in a case study with the reflexive writing of the medieval Christian mystic Julian of Norwich. As a...
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) March 25, 2025 Chris Percy, Andrés Gómez-Emilsson 2 citations
Theories of consciousness grounded in neuroscience must explain the phenomenal binding problem, e.g., how micro-units of information are combined to create the macro-scale conscious experience common to human phenomenology. An example is how single 'pixels' of a visual scene are experienced as a single holistic image in the 'mind's eye', rather than as individual, separate, and massively...
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry March 25, 2025 Noah Chisamore, Erica Kaczmarek, Zoe Doyle et al. 1 citation
Objective: To compare changes in depression, anxiety, and suicidality symptoms after a single 25 mg oral dose of psilocybin between treatment-resistant depression participants not on antidepressants at screening to participants that discontinued antidepressant medications leading up to receiving psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy (PAP). Methods: Participants (n = 27) received at least one 25 mg...
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry March 20, 2025 Kristýna Štefková-mazochová, Hynek Danda, Vladimír Mazoch et al. 3 citations
Methoxphenidine (MXP) is classified as a new psychoactive substance that has recently emerged on the illicit drug market. Understanding the pharmacological and behavioural profiles of newly emerging drugs is essential for a better understanding of their psychotropic effects and potential toxicity. Therefore, in this study, we investigated a broad range of effects of acute MXP administration:...
British Journal of Health Psychology March 18, 2025 A. Sumner, T. Cartwright, Haiko Ballieux et al.
Abstract Objectives With raising rates of mental health problems, mind–body interventions are increasingly being integrated in schools to support children and adolescents' mental health and well‐being. The aim of this study was to explore young adolescents' experiences of yoga and mindfulness and the acceptability of delivery within the school curriculum in an area of high deprivation. Design...
PsyArXiv March 14, 2025 Olga Ulkova, Johanna Prugger, Tim Hirschfeld et al. preprint
The Open Data initiative Altered States Database (ASDB) collects psychometric questionnaire data on the subjective experiences of pharmacologically and non-pharmacologically induced altered states of consciousness. The ASDB is updated annually and can be utilized by both researchers and non-scientists to access information or conduct further analyses. The current update adds data published in...
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science March 13, 2025 Priscilla Fabrizi, Thomas Ditye
This study investigates the effects of the Gateway Experience (GE) on psychological well-being. The GE has been developed several decades ago for the induction of altered states of consciousness. It incorporates several techniques such as hypnosis, meditation, and binaural beats, which are known to facilitate well-being, sleep, learning and memory, and emotional states, but have not been tested...
Wrocławski Przegląd Teologiczny March 12, 2025 Mirosław Kiwka
In the English-speaking world of the first half of the twentieth century Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) was one of the most widely read writers on religion and spiritual practice, in particular on Christian mysticism. No other book of its type met with success to match that of her best-known work, Mysticism, published in 1911. She was conferred with an honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Aberdeen...