Religion Compass
November 1, 2023
Brad Stoddard
3 citations
Abstract Scholars across the academic spectrum have written about the renewed interest in psychedelics that is commonly called the Psychedelic Renaissance (PR). Psychedelic religion is a major component of the PR, as psychedelic churches are growing exponentially and as people who consume and who research psychedelics routinely contend that these substances induce or occasion religious,...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
October 31, 2023
Kurt Stocker, Matthias Hartmann, Laura Ley et al.
22 citations
Background: Research with the Psychedelic Experience Questionnaire/Scale (PES) focuses on questions relating to mystical experience (Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ)). The psychometric potential of the non-MEQ items of the PES remains largely unexplored. Aims: We investigated whether the PES also yields subscales besides the MEQ30 subscales. Methods: Data from 239 PES measurements (140...
Religions
October 27, 2023
Jim Robinson
While Rosemary Radford Ruether is widely, and rightly, acknowledged as a prophetic Catholic scholar–activist, her interest in and experience of mysticism is rarely emphasized. However, Ruether had an impactful mystical experience as a young woman, and the themes of this experience echo throughout her body of work. This paper paints a portrait of Ruether as both a profoundly prophetic...
Deleuze and Guattari Studies
October 27, 2023
Patricia Kubala
6 citations
This paper argues that practitioners of psychedelic-assisted therapy could learn a great deal from Deleuze and Guattari’s critique of psychoanalysis in Anti-Oedipus, as well as the practice of materialist psychiatry – schizoanalysis – that they offer in its stead. Much of the clinical research on psychedelics (particularly psilocybin) over the past fifteen years has privileged mystical...
Psychedelic Experience
October 26, 2023
Aidan Lyon
1 citation
Abstract This chapter explores the thesis that the empirically observed benefits of meditation and psychedelics on well-being can be accounted for in terms of their tendency to reveal the mind. The chapter proposes a more general explanation that goes beyond psychedelic experience by utilising the conceptual framework of psychedelic space (developed in chapter 3). Briefly stated, the...
Psychedelic Experience
October 26, 2023
Aidan Lyon
Abstract This chapter uses the explication developed in the previous chapter to help delineate a logical space of hypotheses involving the concept of psychedelic experience. In particular, the chapter suggests that the practice of meditation and the consumption of psychedelics may tend to induce psychedelic experiences that reliably differ from each other with respect to the four dimensions of...
October 26, 2023
Aidan Lyon
16 citations
Abstract Psychedelic Experience presents a philosophical account of psychedelic experience. A central premise of the book is that such experiences are mind-revealing experiences and that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics. In particular, the book argues that psychedelic experiences can also be had as the result of meditation. The book then presents a unified conceptual...
JMIR Research Protocols
October 25, 2023
Alexander Mattia Presciutti, Emily C Woodworth, Elizabeth A Rochon et al.
Background: Caregivers of patients with severe acute brain injuries (SABI) that lead to coma and require intensive care unit (ICU) treatment often experience chronic emotional distress. To address this need, we developed the Coma Family (COMA-F) program, a mindfulness-based resiliency intervention for these caregivers. Objective: We will conduct an open pilot trial of COMA-F (National...
Maǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-ādāb Ǧāmiʿaẗ Būrsaʿīd
October 24, 2023
جوزفين رزق الله
يناقش هذا البحث التجربة الروحية للفيلسوفة الفرنسية "سيمون فايل" (1909_1943)، كيف ارتبطت بفكرة المعاناة، والتي قدمت لها تحليلاً ميتافيزيقاً، من خلال رؤية صوفية عميقة، تظهر فيها ثقافتها الدينية، وتأثرها الشديد بالكتاب المقدس، كما يظهر فيها أيضاً تأثرها بالفلسفة الأفلاطونية، وأيضاً تتشابه فيها مع بعض الفلاسفة الوجوديين أمثال "كيركجور" و"نيتشه"، و"كامي"، كما أضافت "فايل" في تحليلها لمفهوم المعاناة...
Qeios
October 23, 2023
Jonathan Edwards
preprint
What is a perceiving ‘me’ or ‘soul’ and does it endure, perhaps for eternity, or is it merely one of a sequence of evanescent events? Conscious perception poses several puzzles in relation to subject identity and continuity that Leibniz paid close attention to. Re-applying Leibniz’s principles in a modern context suggests two conclusions. Firstly, his search for fundamental indivisible...