Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
March 12, 2025
Will Olteanu, Sam G. Moreton
5 citations
There has been growing interest in understanding the psychological effects of psychedelic experiences, including their potential to catalyze significant shifts in moral cognition. This retrospective study examines how meaningful psychedelic experiences are related to changes in moral expansiveness and investigates the role of acute subjective effects as predictors of these changes. We found...
JMIR Formative Research
March 11, 2025
Mollie R Cummins, Julia Ivanova, Hiral Soni et al.
3 citations
In the postpandemic era, telemedicine continues to enable mental health care access for many people, especially persons living in areas with mental health care provider shortages. However, as lawmakers consider long-term telemedicine policy decisions, some question the safety and appropriateness of prescribing via telemedicine, and whether there should be requirements for in-person evaluation,...
Qualitative Research Journal for Social Studies
March 4, 2025
ڈاکٹر صدف مشتاق
This research explores the presence of mysticism (Tasawwuf) as a shared thematic and philosophical element in the poetry of two prominent 18th-century Urdu poets: Mir Taqi Mir and Khwaja Mir Dard. While Mir is known for his deeply emotional and introspective poetry, and Dard for his explicit Sufi identity, both poets reflect key Sufi concepts such as divine love, self-annihilation (fana),...
Философская мысль
March 1, 2025
Aleksey Vasiljevich Pozdnyakov
The subject of this study is the methodological approach used by Aldous Huxley to study religious experience and mystical experiences. The article pays special attention to the theoretical origins of this methodology, as well as the social and cultural context of its formation. The article examines how science, philosophy, and religion of that time contributed to the formulation of Aldous...
The Arts in Psychotherapy
March 1, 2025
A. Macleod, Victoria Clarke, Catherine Warner
There is increasing interest in psychedelic-assisted therapy (PT) as a mental health intervention; however, there is a long history of stigma associated with psychedelics, which may be a barrier to implementation. For this reason, it is important to examine the acceptability and perceptions of PT among mental health professionals, service users and the wider public. In almost all PT research...
Sophia
March 1, 2025
Erik Kuravsky
1 citation
Abstract The essay offers an interpretation of psychedelic peak experiences. It criticizes the quasi-scientific naturalistic attempts to explain such experiences and offers an alternative ontology underlying a more complex sense of naturalism, thus defending an entheogenic view irreducible to mere psychological effects. First, the mainstream ontology in the paradigm of natural sciences is...
The Creative Launcher
February 28, 2025
Ramaswami Subramony
This research article explores the rich poetic legacy of Andal, a revered figure in Tamil Śaivite and Vaiṣṇavite Bhakti traditions. Andal, known for her profound spiritual compositions such as Tiruppavai and Nācciyār Tirumoḻi, occupies a central position in early Tamil Bhakti literature. Her poetry resonates with themes of intense devotion and mystical union with the divine, encapsulating the...
The Creative Launcher
February 28, 2025
Prashant Shukla
Sri Aurobindo, a philosopher, mystic, and poet, holds a significant place in Indo-English literature for his unique synthesis of spiritual philosophy and creative expression. His works embody a deep mysticism that permeates his poetry, critical writings, and philosophical discourses. This research paper explores the mystical elements reflected in Sri Aurobindo’s creative and critical works,...
Religions
February 25, 2025
Denae Dyck
This article reconsiders literature’s capacity to express and evoke spiritual experiences by turning to William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience, especially his discussion of mysticism and his suggestion that poetry can bring about such states. James’s ideas are especially promising given recent developments in postsecular and postcritical scholarship that problematize a...
Journal of Bahria University Medical and Dental College
February 24, 2025
Ambreen Kalam, Fazal Ameen Habib
Dear Sir, ‘There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep’ Homer, the Odyssey. A recent systemic review of an aggregated data from 35 empirical studies (N=36,533 subjects) found that 7.6% of the general population experienced at least one Sleep paralysis episode over the course of their life. Higher lifetime prevalence rates were found in students (28.3%) and psychiatric...