European Psychiatry
May 1, 2002
Farāmarz Sohrābi
Ibogaine is a plant-derived alkaloid and dissociative psychedelic that demonstrates anti-addictive properties with several substances of abuse, including alcohol. 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a naturally occurring psychedelic known to occasion potent mystical-type experiences and also demonstrates anti-addictive properties. The potential therapeutic effects of both compounds...
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis
February 1, 2002
Janet Sayers
It is unusual to combine mysticism and psychoanalysis. Marion Milner, however, achieved precisely this. Through her self-analysis and analytic work with children and adults--and using as an illustration her own and others' imaginative ideas, paintings, doodles, drawings and pictures--she drew attention to the potential for health and creativity of undoing the obstacles to mystical experience of...
Routledge eBooks
January 4, 2002
Lionel Corbett
The religious literature recognizes that spiritual experience may occur in at least two ways. It may be acquired by human effort, or an experience of the divine may be directly instilled into the soul passively, without human effort, as an act of grace. The hard work of everyday attention to, and amplification of, intrapsychic material belongs to the former category, while sudden, unforeseen...
Critical Survey
2002
Antony Rowland
1 citation
An ontological need persisted in the writing of Ted Hughes, and continues in critical responses to it. This has manifested itself in various forms: Leonard Scijay detects a ‘mystical consciousness of the oneness of Creation’; in his recent book The Laughter of Foxes: A Study of Ted Hughes, Keith Sagar eulogises the ‘inner being’ of the poet. Although different, these descriptions share a vague...
Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
2002
Louise Sundararajan
45 citations
A hallmark of Christian mysticism is negative theology, which refers to the school of thought that gives prominence to negation in reference to God. By denying the possibility to name God, negative theology cuts at the very root of our cognitive makeup—the human impulse to name and put things into categories—and thereby situates us “halfway between a ‘no longer’ and a ‘not yet’” (Iser, 1978, p....
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
2002
Jill Marsden
In the opening of Civilization and its Discontents, Freud makes reference to a ‘peculiar feeling’ which many have identified as the true source of religious sentiments. It is a feeling that one might call ‘a sensation of “eternity”, a feeling of something limitless, unbounded – as it were, “oceanic”’ (PFL 12, 251). Freud suggests that the ‘oneness with the universe’ which constitutes the...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
2002
T. B. Roberts, P. J. Hruby
10 citations
The word entheogen was coined to denote psychedelic chemicals and botanicals that engender the experience of god within. Drawing on William James, Charles Tart, and Ken Wilber, the authors claim that a complete study of religion must include entheogens, and they propose topics leading toward an entheogen research agenda:(a) the spiritual nature of the human mind, (b) the dispute over the...
Bulletin des Médecins Suisses
October 17, 2001
Der 1952 verstorbene Landarzt Eduard Renner hat in seinem Buch «Goldener Ring über Uri» das magische Denken der Urner Bergler beschrieben.Ihm war diese Welt nicht Aberglaube, sondern letzter Zeuge eines uralten, faszinierenden Weltbildes.Bergkristalle, Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen verändern ihre Form, verschwinden und sind plötzlich wieder da, oder sind es gleichzeitig an verschiedenen...
Nova Religio The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
October 1, 2001
Kirsi Stjerna
1 citation
ABSTRACT: A remarkable number of women leaders and teachers in the history of Christianity have relied on the ‘supernatural,’ spiritual authority received through extraordinary religious experiences. Among them were the Finnish ‘sleep-preachers,’ laywomen who felt called to preach and prophesy while asleep. This article introduces the most famous of these preachers, Helena Konttinen...
Art Documentation Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America
October 1, 2001
Deborah K. Ultan
4 citations
That which in art reminds us of our greater selves, our unexplored potentials, and our personal mysteries —however beautiful, dignified, humiliating, or painful— ultimately opens us to transpersonal realities of which we are not immediately conscious. Ana Mendieta and Yoko Ono used ritual-in-performance to explore myths and realities of identity toward seeking a greater self. When Yoko Ono...