Mortality
August 30, 2020
Mackenzie Blomstrom, Andrew Burns, D. Larriviere et al.
ABSTRACT The fear of death and dying is a multifaceted and prevalent source of human distress that can cause significant psychological and existential distress, especially at the end of life. Analysing current therapeutic approaches to this issue to identify promising modalities and knowledge gaps could improve end of life experiences and reduce human suffering. In this systematically...
Creation and Religious Pluralism
August 20, 2020
David Cheetham
Abstract This chapter considers the concept of ineffability. Has this concept been monopolized by pluralists who use it to provide an object that is sufficiently mystical and unfathomable to accommodate religious differences? Does the ineffable do any work in their systems other than provide a formal category of ultimacy? The chapter seeks to investigate this by evaluating the use of...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 20, 2020
Carla Pallavicini, Federico Cavanna, Federico Zamberlán et al.
17 citations
preprint
Abstract Background N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a short acting psychedelic tryptamine found naturally in many plants and animals. Few studies to date addressed the neural and psychological effects of DMT alone, either administered intravenously or inhaled in freebase form, and none conducted in natural settings. Aims Our primary aim was to study the acute effects of inhaled DMT in natural...
August 19, 2020
Michael Raduga, Oleg Kuyava
The outcome of the survey of 981 respondents on phase state (PS): lucid dreaming (LD), sleep paralysis (SP), out-of-body experiences (OBE), and false awakening (FA). The survey took place in Moscow, Russia (March 16-17, 2019) Survey The study took place on March 16th and 17th, 2019 in the form of a live survey on the streets of Moscow, Russia. A group of nine assistants was instructed to ask...
Logos
August 18, 2020
Andreas Maurenis
Mystical experience has become a new discourse and has been resounded in the midst of our world which has lost the feel of its religiosity due to modernism and secularism. Though modernism gives advance in human life but it is undeniable that somehow it affects to the very core of human thirst for a deepest spiritual growth and improvment. So, in this part William James has become one of the...
Luther, Barth, and Movements of Theological Renewal (1918-1933)
August 10, 2020
Jacqueline Mariña
This paper provides an analysis of Rudolph Otto’s understanding of the structures of human consciousness making possible the appropriation of revelation. Already in his dissertation on Luther’s understanding of the Holy Spirit, Otto was preoccupied with how the “outer” of revelation could be united to these inner structures. Later, in his groundbreaking Idea of the Holy, Otto would explore the...
Review of Ecumenical Studies
August 1, 2020
Dragiša Jerkić
1 citation
Abstract St. Nikolaj Velimirović is known as one of the most influential Serbian theologians of the twentieth century. In his work he shows an admirable spiritual strength and contemplative depth that one would not expect from a thinker who was involved in all important ecclesiastical, political and cultural events of his era. He deliberately replaces the language and methods of academic...
Frontiers in Psychology
July 29, 2020
Jared R. Lindahl, D. James Cooper, Nathan E. Fisher et al.
2 citations
Studies in the psychology and phenomenology of religious experience have long acknowledged similarities with various forms of psychopathology. Consequently, it has been important for religious practitioners and mental health professionals to establish criteria by which religious, spiritual, or mystical experiences can be differentiated from psychopathological experiences. Many previous attempts...
July 27, 2020
G. Ellis, Jingxian Jiang, P. Freeman et al.
Abstract The nature, causes, and effects of immediate conscious leisure experiences have long been central interests of scholars. Significant contributions to the field include Abraham Maslow’s studies of ecstasy and peak experience, Sigmund Koch’s descriptions of two forms of consciousness, John Neulinger’s classification of immediate conscious experiences based on their motivational contexts,...
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
July 23, 2020
Johannes Bronkhorst
4 citations
Abstract This article first predicts, on the basis of an analysis of deep absorption, a number of features of mystical and related states of consciousness. It then observes that these very same features appear in beliefs held by people who have never experienced deep absorption. Moreover, many people engage in activities that, though not normally leading to deep absorption, bring about lesser...