Psychodynamic Practice
June 24, 2024
Christopher W. T. Miller
1 citation
There has been a renewed interest in the clinical applications of psychedelics, with increasing use for a variety of psychiatric conditions. Individuals often describe psychedelic sessions as among the most significant experiences in their lives, emphasising the sense of awe, connectedness, and spiritual transformation they undergo. They can also feel they are experiencing truth and becoming...
Humanitarian Vision
June 20, 2024
Mariia Nabit
The review considers the research of “Religious experience” by Amber L. Griffioen, which remains relevant due to predictions of secularization in the 20th century, which were false. Therefore religion remains influential in various spheres. The views of F. Schleiermacher, R. Otto, V. James, A. Traves, R. Swinborn and their interpretation of the concepts "religious experience", "religious...
The Oxford Handbook of Psychedelic, Religious, Spiritual, and Mystical Experiences
June 20, 2024
Robert C. Fuller
Abstract This chapter examines the role of emotions in religious experience. Scientific studies of emotion provide significant insight into how different emotions (e.g., fear, guilt, awe, wonder) causally influence human thought and feeling. There really is no such thing as an emotion-free experience. It is instead a matter of which specific emotion is present and how strongly it was evoked....
The Oxford Handbook of Psychedelic, Religious, Spiritual, and Mystical Experiences
June 20, 2024
Kevin R. Nelson
Abstract Near-death experiences have gained wide attention, forging an indelible image of spiritual experience in many people today. This chapter examines the neuroscience underpinnings of near-death, including principles that have often been neglected or distorted, often skewing the common impression of near-death. During near-death from fainting or cardiac arrest, the boundary between...
VFAST transactions on Islamic research
June 20, 2024
Maliha Ameen
This study explores the notion of spatiotemporal phenomena, particularly bilocation within the religious and mystical traditions of Islam and Sufism to understand deeper spiritual truths and their implications for the interconnectedness of material and metaphysical realms. Hermeneutical and phenomenological analyses have been employed to discern the complexities of bilocation (Time and Space)...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
June 10, 2024
Leehe Peled-Avron, Jacob S. Aday, Amilia Lydia Kalafateli et al.
2 citations
Editorial on the Research Topic Down the rabbit hole -the psychological and neural mechanisms of psychedelic compounds and their use in treating mental health and medical conditions Psychedelic substances have demonstrated promising therapeutic effects across a wide range of mental health conditions including depression (1-13) anxiety disorders including generalized anxiety (14-16) and social...
Addiction
June 6, 2024
Wayne Hall, Keith Humphreys, John Marsden et al.
18 citations
Abstract The turn of the century brought a resurgence of interest in psychedelics as a treatment for addiction and other psychiatric conditions, accompanied by extensive positive media attention and private equity investment. Government regulatory bodies in Australia, Israel, Canada and the United States now permit use of psychedelics for medical purposes. In the United States, citizen action...
Philosophical Psychology
June 3, 2024
M. Zeller
ABSTRACT Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapies (PAPs) have shown promise in treating mental health disorders, but concerns persist regarding their potential to elicit “false beliefs” through altered states of consciousness. Some argue that metaphysical or mystical beliefs conflicting with philosophical naturalism could signify “epistemic harm” in patients. We contend that such accusations may...
Cureus
June 1, 2024
Roudha Mattar Al Jabri, Jyoti Burad, Al Muayad Al Moosa
Background The intraoperative awareness with recall phenomenon involves the memory of intraoperative events. The reported incidence is 0.001%. Awareness is rare intraoperatively but has profound implications. This research aimed to study intraoperative awareness and dream experiences in the Omani population undergoing general anesthesia. Methods This prospective cohort study involving 300 adult...
Journal of Islamic Thought and Philosophy
June 1, 2024
Siti Khotijah, Inayah Rohmaniyah
This paper explores Pieter Coppens' construction of Sufi interpretation epistemology that dismantles the old knowledge of Sufi interpretation. The general conception of Sufi interpretation lies in the subjectivity of the interpreter. The mystical experience of divinity expressed in the interpretation is said to make the resulting interpretation invalid. However, this opinion is not accompanied...