2014
Lucille Villasenor-Caron
This is an autoethnography that provides a thick description, analysis and reflection of my personal Multiple Sclerosis healing journey, supported by a transpersonal modality based on an ancient shamanic wisdom.This research explores Ayahuasca as a transpersonal therapy, which is facilitated by a spiritual plant that has been used for centuries by Indigenous Peoples in the Amazonian region for...
BIROn
2014
Kasper Opstrup Frederiksen
3 citations
This thesis explores a 'hidden' cultural history of experiments to engineer culture to transform humanity. Through a mixture of ideas drawn from artistic avant-garde movements as well as new social and religious movements, it examines the radical political and hedonist imaginaries of the experimental fringes of the UK Underground. Even though the theatres of operation have changed more than...
Psychopathology
2014
V.v. Vodušek, Josef Parnas, M. Tomori et al.
30 citations
Background: Although it has been suggested that disturbances in emotion experience and regulation play a central role in the aetiology and psychopathology of schizophrenia spectrum disorders, the phenomenology of emotion experience in schizophrenia remains under-researched. Sampling and Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted twice with each of the 20 participants (firstly at admission and...
Journal of Seon Studies
December 31, 2013
Hae-Young Seong
이 논문은 ‘종교체험(religious experience)’을 분석의 도구로 삼아 신비주의의 비교 연구(comparative study of mysticism) 관점에서 간화선을 분석한다. 간화선 전통이 속해 있는 선불교는 수행과 체험의 관계를 믿음이나 은총과 같은 개념에 의지하지 않고 이성에 호소해 설명하려는 대표적인 신비주의 전통이다. 수행 전통으로서의 간화선의 특징을 종교체험과 신비주의라는 개념을 활용해 분석하면 이 점이 훨씬 분명하게 드러난다.BR 비교의 관점에서 간화선은 여타 전통에 비해 다음과 같은 특성을 보인다. 첫째, 간화선은 인간 언어의 한계를 명확하게 인식하면서도 언어를 수행에 적극적으로 활용한다. 둘째, 간화선은 여타 전통보다 개인의 체험에 초점을 맞추는 철저한 경험주의와...
December 30, 2013
C. Hoffmann
: Georges Bataille and Hubert Aquin both explore a mystical experience displaying strong similarities, related to what Roger Caillois called « left sacred », that is the impure, malefic sacred, which is accessible by transgression and corresponds to the privileged moment of unity between people. For Bataille, God is absent, even dead : Lamma sabachtani is no longer a question but an assertion...
Frontiers in Psychology
November 22, 2013
W A Escobar
The proposed model holds that, at its most fundamental level, visual awareness is quantized. That is to say that visual awareness arises as individual bits of awareness through the action of neural circuits with hundreds to thousands of neurons in at least the human striate cortex. Circuits with specific topologies will reproducibly result in visual awareness that correspond to basic aspects of...
Journal of Hindu-Christian studies
November 19, 2013
Michael Stoeber
3 citations
Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) regards mysticism as the core of religion. All religions include various dimensions: scripture/ mythology, doctrine/ philosophy, ethics/ law, social/institutional features, ritual, material aspects, and personal and communal experience. For Underhill, personal religious experience inspires and influences the development of these other aspects of religion—the heart...
November 14, 2013
Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo
Mary Kept These Things, Pondering Them in Her Heart:Breastfeeding as Contemplative Practice and Source for Theology Elizabeth Gandolfo (bio) Throughout the history of Christianity, women have engaged in sustained theological reflection on experiences—of God, themselves, and the world—that they have undergone in the course of practices of contemplation. Contemplative women of the past were not...
October 31, 2013
S. Vörös
The article considers whether, and how, current scientific studies of consciousness might benefit from insights of mystical traditions. Although considerable effort has been expanded towards introducing mysticism into mainstream cognitive science, the topic is still controversial, not least because of the multifariousness of meaning associated with the term (from "illogical thinking" through...
Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
August 6, 2013
R. Carhart-Harris
17 citations
After completing an undergraduate degree in Psychology in 2003, Robin studied psychoanalysis at Masters level, receiving his MA in 2004. In 2005, Robin began a four year PhD in Psychopharmacology at the University of Bristol. Working for Professor David Nutt and Dr Sue Wilson, Robin9s thesis focused on sleep and serotonin function in ecstasy users. Robin conducted a clinical study involving...