M/C Journal
October 15, 2018
Evija Trofimova, Sophie Nicholls
3 citations
IntroductionTwo writers, stuck in our university offices, decide to take our thoughts “for a walk” across the page. Writing from Middlesbrough, United Kingdom, and Auckland, New Zealand, we are separated by 18,000 kilometres and 11 hours, and yet here, on the page, our paths meet. How does walking, imaginary or real, affect our thinking? How do the environments through which we move, and the...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2018
Kevin Page
1 citation
Abraham Maslow started two revolutions in psychology, humanistic and transpersonal psychology. Humanistic psychology, which started as a protest movement against behaviorism and psychoanalysis, looked at the sense of self more than the unconscious or external behavior, and took into account the internal emotional landscape, as well as the psychology of healthy functioning (instead of being...
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October 9, 2018
Leslie Stein
Longing, in its widest sense, impels the receptivity; it is not a characteristic of either a strong or a weak ego. The longing is insufficient, in itself, to account for receptivity, but it is its basis, contained within a coherent ego that is able to absorb a mystical experience (ME). The search for any development factors that may create a proclivity for receptivity to a ME must be general...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2018
Leslie Stein
The emphasis in ego-psychology on a mystical experience (ME) is for the ego consciousness to enter into a relationship with a new element that has been introduced into the psyche by the experience. For Jung, a ME is subsumed in a larger category of what he calls "numinous experience." The teleology of a numinous experience is that it introduces to the conscious mind the existence of a non-ego...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2018
Leslie Stein
An experience will be made legitimate when it is accepted by the patient and the analyst as a truly mysterious phenomenon that has occurred. The importance of Jung&s;s formulation to ascribe legitimacy to a numinous experience is to be understood in the relationship of that experience to ego consciousness. There is philosophical debate as to whether a mystical experience is a pure subjective...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2018
Leslie Stein
Receptivity to a mystical experience (ME) is not characterised for any person by a wide-open highway where there are no obstacles. The nature of a ME and Jung&s;s numinous experience in terms of its psychoanalytic significance is that it essentially creates something new that has a particular form. The potential for rejection is contained within the overwhelming experience; a ME always has an...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2018
Leslie Stein
The father archetype that underlies a father complex is the primum movens of religious feeling: it is the "creative wind-breath – the spirit, pneuma, atman" and thus contains the seeds of all mystical experiences (ME). Although the father archetype is an underlying ground for a ME, it cleaves towards the authority of established religion so that the nascent religious feelings it engenders are...
Routledge eBooks
October 9, 2018
Leslie Stein
Both Sri Aurobindo and C. G. Jung express a process for the fulfilment of a life that requires the development of consciousness and thus offers a reason for giving importance to a mystical experience. Sri Aurobindo Ghose is rare in the array of Eastern mystical figures because he was also an intellectual and a political revolutionary. Reducing Sri Aurobindo and C. G. Jung to a causal connection...
Ambix
October 5, 2018
D. Kahn
Focused on “the visual and symbolic in Western esotericism,” as the subtitle puts it, this impressive book takes its title from the famous passage in John 1:5 (“and the light shineth in darkness”),...
Psychopharmacology
October 4, 2018
Baland Jalal
42 citations
Sleep paralysis is a state of involuntary immobility occurring at sleep onset or offset, often accompanied by uncanny “ghost-like” hallucinations and extreme fear reactions. I provide here a neuropharmacological account for these hallucinatory experiences by evoking the role of the serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2AR). Research has shown that 5-HT2AR activation can induce visual hallucinations,...