Journal of Psychedelic Studies
September 11, 2023
Dax Oliver
2 citations
Abstract I propose that positive mood should not be among the criteria for determining when or if psychedelic experiences are mystical. My primary reasons are: 1) unlike rare proposed mystical criteria such as feelings of self-dissolution and time-transcendence, positive mood does not clearly separate mystical experiences from other emotionally powerful experiences like being in love; 2) other...
September 4, 2023
Ștefan Constantinescu
Desire: An Inoperative Language? Exploring the Mystical Experience of Bernard of Clairvaux with the Philosophical Thought of Giorgio Agamben was published in Der Mensch als Bild des unergründlichen Gottes on page 211.
International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding
August 10, 2023
Borjsaz Gaffar
The present article attempts to clarify the relationship between the 'mystical experience' and 'paradoxical statement'; the first section is concerned with the main function of the said categories in the realm of language which is removing the language from the routine and spiritless mode and bringing it to life; that is, speaking in a real language and expressing what is in the heart. The...
Mental Health, Religion & Culture
August 9, 2023
Saadia Dildar, Asiya Khalid, Ansa Naveed et al.
3 citations
The aim of the current study was to explore mindfulness and mystical experiences in Sufis and non-Sufis. Purposive sampling was used to collect the sample of 30 Sufis and 30 non-Sufis from members of Muslim Institute Lahore and two government universities of Lahore, respectively. The instruments used were a mystical orientation scale and a Five-Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire. The results...
PSYCHOLOGICAL JOURNAL
July 31, 2023
Tetiana Kudrina, Kozlovska Anna
Respondents with experience in the use of psychedelics (psilocybin, LSD, ketamine, MDMA, etc.) participated in the study. Based on the subjective assessment of the level of awareness in the topic of psychedelics, it was found that 49% of respondents have a high level, 47% have an average level, and 4% have a low level of awareness in the topic. Most of the study participants were in Ukraine...
Konteksty Kultury
July 14, 2023
Hans Joas
Adam Zagajewski’s essays on poets and poetry are interpreted here in the context of scholarly debates about the specificities of mystical experience. From the four criteria the great American philosopher and psychologist William James developed in 1902, “transiency” and “passivity” can be brought together as indicators of what I call the inescapability of mystical experience, while the two...
Mostariensia
July 13, 2023
Maja Mandić
In this paper we elaborate on Jung’s three theses which we consider to be the main “keys” to the understanding of Jung’s psychology of religion: the symbolism of the religious, the syncretic-eclectic view of religion, and the thesis that the “mystical unity” of the Soul and the God is the core of any true religiosity. According to Jung’s teachings, the Self represents the wholeness of other...
Teosofia
June 7, 2023
Izza Himawanti, Muhammad Faiq
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are closely related to emotional and spiritual dimensions, even though they are subjective. This study aims to reveal the mystical experiences of individuals suffering from COVID-19 after NDEs. This article is qualitative research with a phenomenological approach. With purposive sampling, the data were collected from individuals suffering from COVID-19 who...
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика
June 5, 2023
Alexey Alekseevich Gaponenkov Alexey Alekseevich
The article traces the formation of the mystical experience of Nikolai Sergeevich Arseniev (1888–1977) on the basis of the memoir book “Gifts and Encounters of the Life Path” (1974), and the stages of his consideration of biblical studies. The analysis of Arseniev’s exegetical work “The Religious Experience of the Apostle Paul” (1935) is proposed. He was one of the Russian thinkers in whose...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
April 5, 2023
Sharday Mosurinjohn, Leor Roseman, Manesh Girn
54 citations
Contemporary research on serotonergic psychedelic compounds has been rife with references to so-called ‘mystical’ subjective effects. Several psychometric assessments have been used to assess such effects, and clinical studies have found quantitative associations between ‘mystical experiences’ and positive mental health outcomes. The nascent study of psychedelic-induced mystical experiences,...