Kantian Review
March 1, 2021
Lawrence Pasternack
AbstractIn this brief commentary, I focus on Part II of Kant and Mysticism, where Stephen Palmquist explores the space for mystical experience in Kant. In particular, I focus on (a) what Palmquist calls ‘immediate experience’ or ‘encounters’; (b) what he calls the ‘supervening’ of religious experience on ordinary experience; and (c) moral conscience as the ‘voice’ of God.
Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World
March 1, 2021
Saleem Al-Bahloly
1 citation
This article details how existential phenomenology, mystical theology and abstraction came together in the practice of Shakir Hassan Al Saʿid in the 1960s in order to produce a grammar of experience that might establish some human relationship to a universe rendered meaningless by scientific developments.
February 25, 2021
Lucas Baccetto
The object of this research is the recent debates carried out by psychiatrists and psychologists around the theme of religion and spirituality. The empirical focus is the creation, of two diagnostic categories in the main guide to psychiatric diagnoses in the United States, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in 1994: "religious or spiritual problem" and...
Anesthesia & Analgesia
February 17, 2021
Peter G. Brindley
49 citations
It is tough to write about psychedelics without a few gratuitous puns. Regardless, Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind” is definitely “mind expanding” and deserves my “highest” recommendation. Published in 2019, this book comprehensively and presciently covers a topic of increasing interest: whether psychedelic agents can revolutionize mental health. Pollan is not a Medical Doctor but is...
Interações
February 12, 2021
Miguel Mahfoud
Resumo O presente artigo apresenta convergências entre duas tradições diversas no que se refere à compreensão da experiência mística enquanto reveladora da experiência humana e de seu possível desenvolvimento. Aponta-se o processo pessoal na experiência mística: (a) na tradição católica através da concepção de castelo interior de sete moradas concebida por Teresa D´Ávila e apresentada em termos...
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
February 6, 2021
Jerome Sarris, Daniel Perkins, Lachlan Cribb et al.
72 citations
Background\nAyahuasca is a psychoactive Amazonian brew which has emerging data indicating that it has antidepressant and anxiolytic properties.\n\nMethods\nThis paper uses data from the Global Ayahuasca Project (GAP), which was undertaken across 2017-2020 and involved 11912 people, to examine the perceived effects of ayahuasca consumption on affective symptoms. The study focused on the...
February 2, 2021
J. Królikowski
The mystery of the Holy Trinity constitutes a transcendental and original principle of the history of salvation and the first subject of Christian faith. Christian faith and Christian life are both shaped in relation to this mystery. Therefore we can speak about the primacy of the Holy Trinity in the faith, which finds its expression in the gradual development and in the overall shape of...
Educational Media Reviews Online
February 2, 2021
Sarah Siddiqui
Distributed by Hard Rain FilmsProduced by Pat MurphyDirected by Pat Murphy2020, Streaming, 58 mins The documentary Psychedelia: The History of Science and Mystical Experience introduces the viewer to the world of mysticism and its relationship with psychedelic drugs and their place in modern world, with emphasis on the developments in the 20th century. The hour-long film can essentially be...
Journal of Religion and Health
February 1, 2021
Jiahe Feng, Yue Li, Yiwen Sun et al.
The aim of the study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate the Chinese Spiritual Coping Scale. The items in the questionnaire were written according to the study's theoretical conception and literature research. A sample of 415 participants with or without religious beliefs was used for exploratory factor analyses to select the items. In addition, another sample of 207 participants was...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
January 15, 2021
Mark S. Ferrara
24 citations
AbstractThis paper demonstrates that cannabis can evoke “peak-experiences”—the name psychologist Abraham Maslow gave to fleeting moments of expanded perception indicative of self-transcendence—when used alongside more traditional religious practices such as meditation, fasting, contemplative prayer, and sacramental ritual. For that reason, religious seekers around the globe have deployed...