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Columbia University Press eBooks December 8, 2015 William A. Richards, G. William Barnard 1 citation
Keywords: Internal Unity, External Unity, Walter Stace, Walter Pahnke, Kierkegaard, Aldous Huxley Internal Unity, External Unity, Walter Stace, Walter Pahnke, Kierkegaard, Aldous Huxley Subject Health Psychology
Columbia University Press eBooks December 8, 2015 William A. Richards, G. William Barnard
Keywords: Walter Pahnke, CZ-74, CEY-19, Psilocybin, Hanscarl Leuner, Paul Tillich Walter Pahnke, CZ-74, CEY-19, Psilocybin, Hanscarl Leuner, Paul Tillich Subject Health Psychology
Studies in World Christianity December 2, 2015 N. Watson, A. Parker 18 citations
The aim of this article is to examine the legitimacy of claims that athletes in extreme sports may encounter the mystical and sublime, when examined though a Christian theological lens. Drawing on the works of theologians and religious studies scholars – in particular, that of Richard Zaehner (1961) – and social scientists who have written on the topic of the mystical and sublime in sporting...
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology December 2015 Ralph Abraham
Is there a world of mathematics above and beyond ordinary reality, as Plato proposed? Or is mathematics a cultural construct? In this short article we speculate on the place of mathematical reality from the perspective of the mystical cosmologies of the ancient traditions of meditation, psychedelics, and divination.
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology December 2015 Bruno Marchal
I will explain how the mathematicians have discovered the universal numbers, or abstract computer, and I will explain some abstract biology, mainly self-reproduction and embryogenesis. Then I will explain how and why, and in which sense, some of those numbers can dream and why their dreams can glue together and must, when we assume computationalism in cognitive science, generate a...
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology December 1, 2015 H H Pattee
As a broad academic discipline phenomenology may be summarized as the study from a first person point of view of what appears to subjective human conscious experience. As a historical philosophical movement phenomenology was often motivated by the belief that subjective human experience is the proper foundation of all philosophy. I explore phenomena from a broader evolutionary and physical...
Humanities November 9, 2015 Bruce Greyson 31 citations
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are vivid experiences that often occur in life-threatening conditions, usually characterized by a transcendent tone and clear perceptions of leaving the body and being in a different spatiotemporal dimension. Such experiences have been reported throughout history in diverse cultures, and are reported today by 10% to 20% of people who have come close to death....
Health Care Current Reviews October 20, 2015 B. Darnall
Chronic pain exerts an enormous impact on the quality of life of the more than 1 billion people around the globe who are living with this condition [1,2] (IOM, IASP). The economic burden of chronic pain is astounding, and in the United States alone costs over half a trillion dollars annually [1]. Given the costs to humanity there exists a critical need to develop and disseminate interventions...
Hybris September 30, 2015 Szymon Nowak
PSYCHEDELIC EXPERIENCE AND ITS COGNITIVE FUNCTION Among the features marking a mystical experience facilitated by certain kind of psychedelic substances researchers singled out the so-called noetic quality, which indicates that mystical experiences can have a cognitive significance. The main goal of my article is then to address the question, whether this cognitive capacity of mystical...
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion September 3, 2015 Michael Stoeber 6 citations
Abstract The comparative study of mysticism began in the mid-19th century, with the development of the modern meaning of the word, which had begun to be used as a substantive, with the classification of “mystics” in the 17th century. This differed from the traditional Greek Christian use of the adjective mystikos, to qualify rituals, scriptures, sacraments, and theology as “mystical” contexts...