October 1, 2020
Jerrold C Winter
Abstract There are about 400,000 species of plants in this world. Only a small fraction, perhaps 100 in number, contain hallucinogenic chemicals. Nearly a century ago, Lewis Lewin, professor of pharmacology at the University of Berlin, in speaking of drugs he called phantasticants, said “The passionate desire which … leads man to flee from the monotony of daily life … has made him discover...
September 23, 2020
Dmitriy A. Filin, Russia Arts
The purpose of this article is to analyze the content of Plotinus’s apophatic theology. The problem of the limit of human cognition has always been topical in the history of the human thought. The absolute reality acted as such a limit in Platonism. The apophatic aspect was the final step of its cognition. The founder of Neoplatonism systematized the Plato’s teaching about hypostases of the...
Anesthesiology
September 18, 2020
Boris D. Heifets
3 citations
IF ketamine were an animal, it would have to be an octopus: unique, endlessly mutable, potentially dangerous, devilishly complicated to study, and seeming to extend its grasp into every corner of medicine. In the 50 years ketamine has been commercially available in the United States, practitioners and researchers have called it an analgesic, antidepressant, anti-inflammatory agent, dissociative...
September 16, 2020
Katherine Olivetti
Using a personal experience at the time of the death of her mother and a subsequent dream, the psychoanalyst/author explores the phenomenon of mystical experience. She shows how the surrender of well-developed ego structures enables vectors of intense communication to cross psychic thresholds to create a mystical experience that can be understood as being overtaken by a full and numinous...
September 15, 2020
A. Lears
This chapter begins with fourteenth-century hermit Richard Rolle's final chapter of the Incendium Amoris or “fire of love,” which recalls his early religious fervor. It analyses that Rolle's characteristic love-language demonstrates an impulse to describe his relationship with God in terms of the emotional bonds and bodily feeling of a melancholic lover. It also describes Rolle's choice of the...
Journal of Neuroscience
September 14, 2020
Masamichi J. Hayashi, R. Ivry
The perception of duration in the subsecond range has been hypothesized to be mediated by the population response of duration-sensitive units, each tuned to a preferred duration. One line of support for this hypothesis comes from neuroimaging studies showing that cortical regions, such as in parietal cortex exhibit duration tuning. It remains unclear whether this representation is based on the...
Indonesian Journal of Theology
September 10, 2020
L. Leonard
This article endeavors to discuss hunger as a site for mystical encounter with God. The history of Christian mysticism shows that our experiences play a significant role in the sourcing of its very theology. Upon consideration of a clarifying definition for mystical theology, I elaborate on Simone Weil’s view of hunger as mystical experience along with Dorothee Solle’s notion that mystical...
Behavioral Sciences
September 9, 2020
Joshua Gold, Joseph Ciorciari
Flow states have been shown to help people reach peak performance, yet this elusive state is not easily attained. The review describes the current state of literature on flow by addressing the environmental influences as well as the cognitive and neurocognitive elements that underlie the experience. In particular, the research focusses on the transition of cognitive control from an explicit to...
September 7, 2020
Kledson Tiago Alves de Souza
This article explains the mystical-speculative experience that Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) proposes to the monks of Tegernsee to lead them to "sacred obscurity" or "mystical theology". The author was motivated by the prominent discussion from fifteenth century, about whether one should understand the contemplative view in a merely affective or intellectual way. This debate involved two major...
September 1, 2020
Jaime Andrés Vinasco Barco
espanolObjetivo: repensar el potencial de los psicodelicos para la construccion de un marco psicoespiritual al final de la vida. Sintesis del contenido: con las recientes investigaciones que reconfirman el potencial de los psicodelicos para lograr experiencias misticas, estaticas y de trascendencia, los diferentes enfoques de atencion al paciente moribundo se estan enfrentando a una resurgente...