Research Square
February 23, 2024
Ari Brouwer, Joshua K. Brown, Earth Erowid et al.
5 citations
preprint
Abstract Psychedelic therapy has the potential to become a revolutionary and transdiagnostic mental health treatment, yielding enduring benefits that are often attributed to the experiences that coincide with peak psychedelic effects. However, there may be an underrecognized temporal structure to this process that helps explain why psychedelic and related altered states of consciousness can...
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
February 21, 2024
Sebastian Gäb
4 citations
Abstract This paper discusses the nonconceptual theory of mystical ineffability which claims that mystical experiences can’t be expressed linguistically because they can’t be conceptualized. I discuss and refute two objections against it: (a) that unconceptualized experiences are impossible, and (b) that the theory is ad hoc because it provides no reason for why mystical experiences should be...
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
February 20, 2024
Elías Capriles
2 citations
In the debate between Freud and Romain Rolland the latter asserted the infants’ oceanic feeling to be saner than the adults’ limited sense of self, and that mystics recover the oceanic feeling without losing the learning achieved during socialization. Freud retorted that the oceanic feeling involved a sense of shelterlessness, and whoever went through derealization was psychotic and needed to...
February 20, 2024
Joost J. Breeksema
Psychedelics are remarkable, versatile substances that produce a wide range of effects and can cause both harm and healing. Clinical research into psychedelic treatments is booming. In spite of this renewed interest, relatively little is known about how patients experience these treatments. In this dissertation, patients who received a psychedelic (either ketamine or psilocybin) to a treat...
Qeios
February 15, 2024
Zhilong Yan, Aixin Zhang
2 citations
In the burgeoning field of mysticism studies, this pioneering research sheds light on the often-overlooked intersectionality of totemic mysticism and unique spiritual experiences. Departing from traditional Abrahamic perspectives, the study critically challenges normative paradigms that marginalize or pathologize these experiences. By employing an interdisciplinary methodology, which fuses...
Qeios
February 14, 2024
Zhilong Yan, Aixin Zhang
1 citation
This innovative study ventures into the less-trodden domain of mysticism studies, unveiling the complex interplay between totemic mysticism and distinctive spiritual phenomena. Moving away from the conventional confines of Abrahamic religious interpretations, it boldly questions established views that have either marginalized or misinterpreted these spiritual experiences. Through a...
Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
February 9, 2024
Yasmin Schmid, Anya K. Bershad
15 citations
There has been renewed interest in the use of 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) and serotonergic psychedelics in the treatment of multiple psychiatric disorders. Many of these compounds are known to produce prosocial effects, but how these effects relate to therapeutic efficacy and the extent to which prosocial effects are unique to a particular drug class is unknown. In this article,...
Scientific Reports
February 7, 2024
Christopher Timmermann, Richard J. Zeifman, David Erritzøe et al.
37 citations
Abstract Psilocybin, a serotonergic psychedelic, is being increasingly researched in clinical studies for the treatment of psychiatric disorders. The relatively lengthy duration of oral psilocybin’s acute effects (4–6 h) may have pragmatic and cost-effectiveness limitations. Here, we explored the effects of intravenous (IV) N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a closely related, but faster-acting...
The MIT Press eBooks
February 6, 2024
A well looks at a donkey, not vice versa [#33] Self-image and infinity somehow fell into one.[#3024] One of the many things that make a more genuinely philosophical meditation practice so in ter est ing is that some of its aspects can be taught, while others can't.Some things you simply have to find out for yourself.Before we start, let us do a little demo.Be assured that you do not have to be...
The MIT Press eBooks
February 6, 2024
There is no waking, there is no sleeping, there is only being.[#1784] Contemplative practice is related to sleep in a number of in ter est ing ways.First, many dozens of our experiential reports emphasize how deeply relaxing, restful, and refreshing it is to spend a while abiding in the wakeful presence of bare awareness.What is more, the relationship between our subjectively experienced target...