The Strange Case of Ermine de Reims Gail Orgelfinger A Medieval Woman Between Demons and Saints. By Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. When demons began to torment her in late 1395, Ermine was a middle-aged (48) widow who had moved to Reims from the countryside a decade earlier with her elderly husband in order to find work. About two years after...
Un’allucinazione vissuta consensualmente abbandonandosi all’oblio della coscienza: un “viaggio” allucinante nelle profondità dell’inconscio, intrapreso dall’artista nel rischioso tentativo di raggiungere senza certezza uno stato di “superiore” ispirazionee di mistica illuminazione, lasciando affiorare le proprie visioni ed i propri fantasmi interiori dalle nebbie lisergiche dell’estasi chimica...
Kohut’s concept of selfobject is illuminated in terms of the concept of sublimation. Freud’s interpretation and positive comment on mystic practices was complemented and developed by Kohut’s concept of selfobject that paved the way for religious sublimation. Religious experiences function as sublimation by performing their selfobject roles. Psychohistorical analysis of the 1907 Revival Movement...
Reviewed by: African American Female Mysticism: Nineteen-Century Religious Activism by Joy R Barbara A. Holmes (bio) African American Female Mysticism: Nineteen-Century Religious Activism. By Joy R. Bostic, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 179pp. $100.00 Joy Bostic’s work offers unique insights into the lives of black women mystics of the nineteenth century. When most of us hear the word...
Spiritus2016Bernadette Flanagan, Michael B. O'Sullivan2 citations
Spirituality in Contemporary Ireland:Manifesting Indigeneity1 Bernadette Flanagan (bio) and Michael O’Sullivan (bio) The focus of this essay is an examination of a few of the contours of the spiritual search in contemporary Ireland, a society where the form and structures of a long dominant Roman Catholic tradition are becoming less influential and are being resisted, opposed, or rejected by...
Background A new class of hallucinogens called NBOMes has emerged. This class includes analogues 25I-NBOMe, 25C-NBOMe and 25B-NBOMe. Case reports and judicial seizures indicate that 25I-NBOMe and 25C-NBOMe are more prevalently abused. There have been a few confirmed reports of 25B-NBOMe use or toxicity. Report Observational case series. This report describes a series of 10 patients who suffered...
While the field of empirical study on religion and spirituality in relation to mental health has rapidly expanded over the past decade, little is known about underlying dimensions of spirituality cross-culturally conceived. We aimed to bridge this gap by inductively deriving potential universal dimensions of spirituality through a large-scale, multi-national data collection, and examining the...
This article reviews three experiments on event-related potentials (ERPs) testing the hypothesis that primary visual consciousness (stimulus self-report) is related to enhanced cortical neural synchronization as a function of stimulus features. ERP peak latency and sources were compared between "seen" trials and "not seen" trials, respectively related and unrelated to the primary visual...
The article briefly shows the major points of apophaticism in Pseudo-Dionysius, focusing on his stances of the incomprehensibility of God (the One, the Supreme Cause of everything, Being itself) and the limitations to men's abilities of attaining any proper knowledge about his immeasurable greatness and infinite power.In an attempt at a brief overview of some of the aspects of his apophatic...
In visual cognitive neuroscience the debate on consciousness is focused on two major topics: the search for the neural correlates of the different properties of visual awareness and the controversy on the graded versus dichotomous nature of visual conscious experience. The aim of this study is to search for the possible neural correlates of different grades of visual awareness investigating the...