Journal of Psychopharmacology
March 20, 2023
Jordan Sloshower, Hamideh Safi-Aghdam, Surbhi Pathania et al.
153 citations
Background: Several early phase studies have demonstrated that psilocybin-assisted therapy has rapid-acting and persisting antidepressant effects from just one or two doses. However, methodological limitations (e.g., placebo-control, blinding) limit interpretability of the existing literature. Methods: In an exploratory placebo-controlled, within-subject, fixed-order study, individuals with...
Religions
March 14, 2023
Ismail Lala
The extremely influential mystic, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī (d. 634/1240), believes that the most advanced gnostics are imbued with a special power that turns their religious experience into reality. This is the power of himma—the power of existentiation that elite gnostics derive from God’s absolute power of existentiation. Ibn ‘Arabī and his followers assert that this power, which is exercised...
Human Arenas
March 13, 2023
Enno Freiherr von Fircks
4 citations
Abstract In the present paper, I relate cultural psychology with eco-phenomenology. I am showing that both sciences draw on similar scientific underpinnings. Here, it is to note that cultural psychology as well as eco-phenomenology analyze a person’s relatedness towards an object. In phenomenology we speak of human landscapes whereas cultural psychology draws on the notion of action fields....
Religie & Samenleving
March 13, 2023
Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg
A growing group of people uses contemplation as a spiritual response to complex global challenges such as conflict. Peace, these contemplative activists argue, is not an external material condition, but an embodied, mystical experience beyond religion, language and social roles that brings about social change. Scholars should therefore reconsider the claim that spirituality in the public domain...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2023
Pierre A Geoffroy, Rodolphe Borand, Marine Ambar Akkaoui et al.
Introduction Sleep and circadian markers are of increasingly growing interest to help better predicting suicide. Indeed, specific sleep disorders and circadian rhythm disorders have been associated to suicidal behaviors, and the most replicated findings are insomnia and nightmares. Nevertheless, these interesting preliminary studies did not examine the chronology and trajectories of these dream...
European Psychiatry
March 1, 2023
E. Prades, A. Torres, P. Díez et al.
1 citation
Introduction Ayahuasca is a traditional brew containing the psychedelic 5-DMT (a tryptamine that acts as a 5HT2A-R agonist) used to achieve non-ordinary states of consciousness, with a long tradition among various cultures in ritual and therapeutic contexts. Ayahuasca is being studied as potential treatment in Mental Health, which has led to non-controlled and recreational use. This has led to...
Psychedelics as Psychiatric Medications
March 1, 2023
Michael C Mithoefer, David E. Presti
Abstract MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) was originally synthesized and patented by the Merck chemical company in 1914. It was not explored for human use until the 1970–80s when there were published reports that it could be a useful catalyst to psychotherapy, in part because it often produced reduced anxiety and increased emotional openness. In 1985, in response to media attention to...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2023
Fiona G. Sleight, Steven Jay Lynn, Richard E. Mattson et al.
16 citations
Ego dissolution (i.e., ego loss, ego disintegration, ego death, or self-loss) is a conscious state marked by a loss or diminution of one's sense of self and a lack of first-person experience. We developed a novel, valid, and internally consistent ego dissolution scale to both (a) assess trait-like aspects of ego dissolution, which have received scant attention to date, and (b) facilitate future...
Vidyodaya Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
February 28, 2023
Swati Bhandari
This article uncovers the congruity of Neo-Platonism in Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda. The philosophy of Neo- Platonism postulates that the phenomenal creation is the emanation of the Cosmic One which radiates pervasive wisdom, the world soul and the living being. Thus, the spark of divinity dwells in every living being. Likewise, Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi expounds that the...
Refleksi Jurnal Filsafat dan Pemikiran Islam
February 27, 2023
Ilham Maulana
In the discourse of philosophy of mysticism, there are at least two opposing views in explaining the expression of mystical experience, namely constructivist and perennialist. The constructivist views that mystical expression is closely related to the mystical tradition that originates so that the symbols used cannot be separated from tradition. This relates to the cognitive qualities possessed...