Objective: Previous studies claim a healing effect on psychological and medical symptoms beyond the biopsychosocial construct of medicine to include a “spiritual” aspect with added experience of wholeness and well-being. A recommendation for the development of a human ontological model for research of this spiritual domain has been suggested. The objective of this study was to test feasibility...
Cannabis and its main psychoactive constituent, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), are thought to weaken neurocognitive processes. However, past experimental research examining the acute effects of THC on neurocognition has produced mixed results. The current study aims to advance this literature through application of computational modeling and consideration of individual differences in...
Experience begins with sensing sensing , which is significantly of particularities particularities . I call these “ p-unitates p-unitates ”. How does sensation filter into the process of experiencing artwork artwork ? Taking into consideration the last chapter’s description of nonconscious nonconscious perception nonconscious perception , gist gist , and affordances, this chapter lays out the...
The presence of unusual features in psychedelic treatments has led to the argument that these treatments are exceptional within medicine and should therefore also be treated as exceptional when ana...
Teksty Bertranda Russella dotyczące kwestii mistycyzmu dzielą się na dwie grupy. Pierwsza, obejmująca fragmenty Mysticism and Logic (1914), stanowi krytykę głównych tez filozofii mistycznej zawartych m.in. w pismach Parmenidesa, Spinozy i Hegla. Druga grupa składa się m.in. z fragmentów The Essence of Religion (1912) i zawiera koncepcję niedogmatycznego mistycyzmu jako duchowej postawy wobec...
Psychedelic treatments are extending beyond research units and into hospitals, outpatient clinics, and community practices. Contrasting the constrained procedures of clinical trials with the realities of routine practice, this article outlines the competencies needed for safe, effective, and ethically sound psychedelic therapy in everyday mental health care. To accommodate mainstream adoption...
The article discusses the reasons for the wide popularity of entheogens among representatives of occultism of the late 19th – early 20th centuries, and the role they played in their theories and practices. It is hypothesized that the appeal of occult authors to entheogens should be considered in the light of the conflict between science and religion, which sought to overcome the representatives...
This paper explores the thematic convergence of divine love in Sufi poetry and the poetic works of Rabindranath Tagore, highlighting the spiritual sensibilities shared across these seemingly distinct traditions. Rooted in different historical and cultural contexts, Sufi poets such as Rumi, Hafiz, and Bulleh Shah articulate the human soul's yearning for union with the Divine, using metaphor,...
Over the past 30 years, there has been an increasing scientific and philosophical attention to what contemplative and spiritual traditions for millennia have known as pure consciousness, free from concrete empirical content and egoic self-awareness. The article addresses whether meditation is the best candidate for the research of pure consciousness, as Thomas Metzinger claims in his book The...
Cosmopsychism attributes subjectivity to the universe as a whole. What might that subjectivity be like? There are differing opinions in the philosophical literature, ranging from ?simply a mess? to highly advanced. Mystical experience, if it genuinely brings unity or identity with the universe, could provide some insight. The evidence points to conscious mind of extraordinary quality and...