Journal of Psychopharmacology
November 30, 2016
Annie Umbricht, Mary P Cosimano, Roland R. Griffiths et al.
2,174 citations
Cancer patients often develop chronic, clinically significant symptoms of depression and anxiety. Previous studies suggest that psilocybin may decrease depression and anxiety in cancer patients. The effects of psilocybin were studied in 51 cancer patients with life-threatening diagnoses and symptoms of depression and/or anxiety. This randomized, double-blind, cross-over trial investigated the...
November 28, 2016
G. Immink
The awareness of God’s presence and the experience of his works – key notions in practices of prayer – find reasonable doubt in our secular age. Meanwhile, there are, worldwide, many communities of faith where people enthusiastically pray and hold that they hear the voice of God. How can we understand this sense of God’s presence? In prayer, people express their hope and fear, and they do so...
Timing & Time Perception
November 26, 2016
Bin Yin, Sven Thönes, Ruey-Kuang Cheng et al.
Male Sprague–Dawley rats were exposed to social defeat and subordination by aggressive male Long–Evans rats. The social defeat procedure involved the continuous exposure to an aggressive resident for 10 days, while living in a protective cage within the resident’s home cage with daily brief confrontations. These stress experiences resulted in 1) reduced body weight; 2) decreased social...
International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature
November 19, 2016
Swati Samantaray
2 citations
Cosmic mysticism is an immediate experience of oneness with God by means of ecstatic and wordless contemplation. The Indian Renaissance poets Rabindranath Tagore and Sri Aurobindo are spiritual humanists who believe that the entire creation is pervaded by the presence of God. Their exceptional minds have an instinctive urge to synthesize and transform, transmute and transcend the aspects of...
November 16, 2016
Judy E. Lam
James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905), founder of the China Inland Mission in June 1865, was one of the most influential 19th century British Protestant missionaries in China. His writings, sermons and personal letters are suffused with spiritual insights and mystical nuances, notably Union and Communion,1 his short devotional work on the Song of Songs which was published in 1894. This article...
QJM : monthly journal of the Association of Physicians
November 9, 2016
Sam Parnia
Transcendental mystical or spiritual experiences close to death have been described for millennia. However, following the birth of modern intensive care medicine four decades ago, the specific term ‘near-death experience’ (NDE) was coined. 1 Current research indicates that, regardless of cultural background, adults and young children (<3 years) have described comparable experiences in...
Otrante.
November 1, 2016
Sophie Sendra
vers une tHéorie de lA relAtivité de lA PerCePtion I l existe de nombreuses théories concernant la façon dont nous percevons le monde phénoménal.Une des questions que se posent les neurosciences et la philosophie est de savoir si notre conscience perçoit tout ou une partie de ce qui se présente à elle.Certains auteurs se sont penchés sur cette question.Sans être scientifiques ou philosophes,...
History of psychology
November 2016
Michael E Staub
In the course of the 1970s and 1980s, theories derived from neuropsychological research on the bisected brain came rapidly to achieve the status of common sense in the United States and Canada, inflecting all manner of popular and academic discussion. These theories often posited that the right hemisphere was the seat of creative expression, whereas the left hemisphere housed rationality and...
Otrante.
November 1, 2016
Lucien d’Azay
Un être humain est toujours extrêmement en dessous de ce qu'il pourrait être.-HENRI MICHAUX 1 .L 'homme ne saurait se passer de transcendance.Mais depuis que Nietzsche a annoncé la mort de Dieu, une grande partie de l'humanité semble désorientée, en quête d'un substitut qui la console et l'apaise.Les poètes ou les artistes, qu'ils soient ou non athées, ont substitué à ce besoin métaphysique une...
October 24, 2016
C. Miller
Correspondence: chpmiller@ucdavis.edu University of California, Davis, USA Welcome to a special issue of the International Journal of Dharma Studies. Here readers will find five articles that approach contemplative practice from various philosophical, pedagogical, and scientific perspectives. The diverse contents presented here will likely interest a broad range of readers including scholars,...