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Journal of Religion and Theology 2018 Szabolcs Kéri 1 citation
The relationship between religion and psychosis is one of the most important and unanswered questions in pastoral psychology, theology, and psychiatry.Several studies suggested that psychotic states, such as schizophrenia,are associated with enhanced religiousness and spirituality.In a dominantly Christian, Eastern-European population, however, this is not the case.The data clearly show...
Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 2018 Sławomir Studniarz
The article is devoted to the mystical elements and allusions surfacing in Poe's -analytical,‖ -angelic,‖ and -landscape‖ tales: -A Descent into the Maelström,‖ -The Purloined Letter,‖ -The Murders in the Rue Morgue,‖ -The Domain of Arnheim,‖ -Landor's Cottage,‖ -Mesmeric Revelation,‖ -The Colloquy of Monos and Una,‖ -The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion,‖ and "The Power of Words.‖It is...
ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ Journal of Visual Semiotics 2018 Andrew Simsky 2 citations
Image-paradigms are non-pictorial mental images of the sacred. They are engendered in the viewer’s imagination by means of organized ensembles of iconic, symbolic and typological elements of sacred spaces and emerge from a manifold of interrelating associations. In this paper I elucidate this complex notion by studying the example of one image-paradigm of fundamental importance, namely, the...
Philosophy of Religion Analytic Researches 2018 Stephen R. Grimm
Мистический опыт имеет два аспекта.Он включает в себя: 1) прямой контакт с Богом; 2) единение с Богом.Чтобы прояснить первый аспект, я буду опираться на концепцию, изложенную в основательном труде Уильяма Олстона «Восприятие Бога».Несмотря на то, что точка зрения Олстона кажется мне правильной во многих отношениях, основная ее проблема состоит в том, что представление о контакте с Богом, или о...
Frontiers in Psychology 2018 Ying-Tung Lin
The connection between memory and self-consciousness has been a central topic in philosophy of memory. When remembering an event we experienced in the past, not only do we experience being the subject of the conscious episode, but we also experience being the protagonist in the memory scene. This is the "phenomenal presence of self." To explore this special sense of self in memory, this paper...
Journal of anesthesia history 2018 Jane S Moon, Catherine M Kuza, Manisha S Desai 6 citations
William James greatly influenced the fields of psychology, philosophy, and religion during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was the era of Modernism, a time when many writers rejected the certainty of Enlightenment ideals. Positivism, which rose to prominence in the early 19th century, had emphasized physical phenomena, empirical evidence, and the scientific method. Darwin's On the...
Explore 2018 Helané Wahbeh, Amira Sagher, Wallis Back et al. 103 citations
Across cultures and throughout history, transcendent states achieved through meditative practices have been reported. The practices to attain transcendent states vary from transcendental meditation to yoga to contemplative prayer, to other various forms of sitting meditation. While these transcendent states are ascribed many different terms, those who experience them describe a similar unitive,...
Progress in Brain Research 2018 Joseph P Barsuglia, Martin Polanco, Robert Palmer et al. 37 citations
Ibogaine is a plant-derived alkaloid and dissociative psychedelic that demonstrates anti-addictive properties with several substances of abuse, including alcohol. 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a naturally occurring psychedelic known to occasion potent mystical-type experiences and also demonstrates anti-addictive properties. The potential therapeutic effects of both compounds...
December 28, 2017 V. Whizar-Lugo, Cesar Heredia-Mota, R. Camacho
Major depression (MD) is a very common chronic mental illness that causes substantial disability in millions of adolescents and adults throughout the world. In the United States of North America there is an annual risk of depression of 6.6%. Unfortunately, only 30-40% of patients will remit with the usual antidepressant drugs and there is a high risk of suicide attempts during the first month...
Approaches December 22, 2017 Evangelia Papanikolaou, B. Beck 1 citation
We are very proud to launch this special issue of Approaches entitled ‘Guided Imagery and Music: Contemporary European perspectives and developments’. With its body of articles, we hope to inspire practitioners, researchers and educators from many fields: Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) therapists, music therapists as well as professionals from other health professions. But, why a special issue...