Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval
May 20, 2019
J. F. Fernández López
En esta aproximacion hermeneutica a la Cabala y al Zohar, desde la doble perspectiva de la historia de las ideas y de la lectura de unos textos surgidos en un tiempo y en un contexto determinado, queremos indagar en el componente historico y temporal de la mistica cabalista. La Cabala medieval, siendo de por si una experiencia de lo numinoso, marcada por lo ahistorico, no es ajena por completo...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
May 14, 2019
Albert Garcia‐romeu, Alan K. Davis, Fire Erowid et al.
286 citations
Background: Meta-analysis of randomized studies using lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for alcohol use disorder (AUD) showed large, significant effects for LSD efficacy compared to control conditions. Clinical studies suggest potential anti-addiction effects of LSD and mechanistically-related classic psychedelics for alcohol and other substance use disorders. Aims: To supplement clinical...
The British Neuropsychiatry Association – Annual Meeting
May 1, 2019
A. Coles
Alasdair Coles is an academic neurologist in Cambridge, mainly working on experimental therapies in multiple sclerosis. He is also an Anglican priest. Funded by the Templeton Foundation, he has led two studies of the effect of neurological diseases on spirituality: Parkinson’s disease and temporal lobe epilepsy. He has edited ‘Neurology and Religion’, to be published by CUP in 2019. Since...
History of psychology
May 1, 2019
Simon Kemp
During the later Middle Ages, a number of religiously oriented people behaved in ways that we would consider unusual, yet it was unusual for them to be regarded as mentally disordered. This article reviews late medieval thinking and practice with regard to mental disorder and also with regard to the discernment of spirits, that is, how it could be decided whether an experience or impulse to do...
Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy
April 25, 2019
Harrison Blum, C. Rutt, Carol C Nash et al.
This study presents the impact of chaplain-provided mindfulness meditation (MM) groups on state-anxiety in adolescent inpatients on an acute psychiatric unit, an understudied topic that warrants further research given that anxiety is a demonstrated predictor of suicide attempts in adolescents and the elevated suicide risk of this population. A total of 53 adolescent patients, age 13–19,...
PLoS One
April 23, 2019
Roland R. Griffiths, Ethan Hurwitz, Alan K. Davis et al.
249 citations
Naturally occurring and psychedelic drug-occasioned experiences interpreted as personal encounters with God are well described but have not been systematically compared. In this study, five groups of individuals participated in an online survey with detailed questions characterizing the subjective phenomena, interpretation, and persisting changes attributed to their single most memorable God...
Journal of Yoga and Physiotherapy
April 16, 2019
Jodan D. Garcia
Chronic pain is an increasingly common diagnosis in society affecting an estimated 25.3 million adults in 2012. Pain is defined by the International Association for the Study of Pain as, “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage” [1] and chronic pain can be defined as pain that is present, “for at least...
New Writing
April 9, 2019
Tehseen Noorani
3 citations
ABSTRACT Science has caught wind of mysticism once again. Operationalising metrics from the writings of perennial philosophers, psychopharmacologists are using psychedelics in a laboratory context to reliably induce ‘mystical experiences’. These experiences are scored along such dimensions as unity, noesis, transcendence of space–time and ineffability. How are we to read this moment? I draw on...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
April 1, 2019
Alejandro Parra
There are relatively few studies examining the parental style, childhood trauma, and paranormal experiences/beliefs; therefore, the aim of this study is to measure the dominant parental style of those who have experienced paranormal events and their correlation with negative events in childhood and resilience. Four questionnaires were administered to 644 participants. The results showed high...
Journal of Health Research
March 25, 2019
Pantip Sangprasert, Srimuang Palangrit, Natima Tiyoa et al.
12 citations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of mindfulness practice on health behaviors and quality of life (QOL) among hypertensive patients. Design/methodology/approach A quasi-experimental research was designed by before, after and a follow-up phase (i.e. on the 0th, 6th and 12th weeks). Two primary health care units (PCU) were selected as control and experiment groups....