Psico-USF
April 1, 2010
Fernanda Barcellos Serralta, Fernanda Genro Cony, Zelia Cembranel et al.
4 citations
Na literatura internacional, a experiência de quase-morte (EQM) é avaliada principalmente por meio do instrumento The Near-Death Experience Scale (NDE), elaborado por Bruce Greyson, em 1983. O objetivo do presente estudo é verificar a existência de equivalência semântica entre a versão original da escala (em inglês) e a versão traduzida ao português do Brasil, avaliando os significados geral e...
Drug and Alcohol Dependence
April 1, 2010
James E Lange, Jason Daniel, Kestrel Homer et al.
85 citations
Salvia divinorum (salvia) is an intense, short-acting hallucinogenic plant gaining popularity among adolescents in the United States. There has been little scientific documentation of salvia's effects. The popular video-sharing website YouTube has received literally thousands of video-posts of people using salvia. The objective of this study was to assess the effects of salvia use through...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
March 2010
Beth M Anderson, Matthew Rizzo, Robert I Block et al.
In the United States, one in six teenagers has driven under the influence of marijuana. Driving under the influence of marijuana and alcohol is equally prevalent, despite the fact that marijuana use is less common than alcohol use. Much of the research examining the effects of marijuana on driving performance was conducted in the 1970s and led to equivocal findings. During that time, few...
February 16, 2010
I. M. Lewis
First Published in 2004. States of spirit possession, in which believer's feel themselves to be 'possessed' by the deity and raised to a new plane of existence, are found in almost all known religions. From Dionysiac cults to Haitia voodoo, Christian and Sufi mysticism to shamanic ritual, the rapture and frenzy of ecstatic experience forms an iconic expression of faith in all its devastating...
Psychopathology
February 9, 2010
S.B. Unnithan, J.C. Cutting
Eighteen patients admitted to a drug dependency unit for opiate detoxification and who had recently used cocaine were asked to describe the experience based on a questionnaire. A comparison was made with 18 schizophrenic patients who completed the same questionnaire. Results showed a qualitative difference in the subjective phenomena described by the two groups. There appeared to be certain...
Oxford University Press eBooks
January 21, 2010
Michael N. Marsh
46 citations
What certainty is there for personal survival after death? Five key authors, critically analysed in this thesis, think that OB/ND experiences offer such assurances. Most OB/ND events follow severe clinical crises profoundly embarrassing cerebral function. At the nadir of brain function, invariably resulting in unconsciousness, authors aver that the escape of soul (Sabom), mind, or free...
Brain Research Bulletin
January 15, 2010
Michela Mazzetti, Claudia Bellucci, Katia Mattarozzi et al.
An abundant recall of dreams has been observed in clinical studies on patients with narcolepsy-cataplexy (NC), a neurological disorder characterized by an altered sleep architecture. Laboratory studies have shown that dream experiences developed during 1st-rapid eye movement (REM) sleep by NC patients are longer and more complex than those of healthy subjects. To establish whether these...
January 7, 2010
Pericles Lewis
The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been the domain of religious mystics and believers. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis...
2010
Francesca Brezzi
2 citations
it is possible to speak of mystique when referring to Etty Hillesum? This present essay aims to answer to that question, which has been raised by several scholars and philosophers, with the help of Antonietta Potente's reflections, which can be considered parallel to Etty Hillesum's, at least to some extent. On the one hand, it has to be discarded the idea that the young Dutch- Dutch Jewish...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2010
Wayne Gary Kreger
This paper aims to compare and contrast the concepts of “delusion” and “knowledge” as found in the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi and the Platform Sūtra. Employed in this analysis is the methodology of conceptual metaphor analysis, a method that identifies the source domain for metaphors employed in the dissemination of both doctrine and mystical experience. By acknowledging their metaphorical...