Southern medical journal
April 1996
G S Greene, S G Patterson, E Warner
Angel's trumpet is a hallucinogenic plant commonly cultivated as an ornamental in the southeastern United States. Consumption of any part of the plant may result in severe anticholinergic toxicity. In past years, toxicity has largely resulted from accidental ingestion, but in 1994 there was a ten-fold increase in the number of reported ingestions throughout the state of Florida, largely by...
The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
April 1, 1996
K Wenzel, D P Bernstein, L Handelsman et al.
This study compared the frequency and types of dissociative experiences reported by detoxified alcoholics and drug abusers, and examined the relationship between dissociation and recent and lifetime use of alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, and heroin. One hundred thirty-eight self-referred male veterans detoxified from alcohol (N=62) and drugs (N=76) on inpatient units at a Veterans Affairs hospital...
Arizona quarterly/The Arizona quarterly
March 1, 1996
Jason Gary Horn
1 citation
JASON G. HORN Figuring Freedom as Religious Experience: Mark Twain, William James, and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger ii~T believe the pragmatic way of taking religion to be the JLdeeper way. It gives it body as well as soul, it makes it claim, as everything real must claim, some characteristic realm offact as its vety own." So concludes William James in the final pages of The Varieties of...
Communication Studies
March 1, 1996
Lyall Crawford
10 citations
This essay suggests that the perspective of philosophical Taoism may be a means of transforming everyday conversations into instances of contemplation where our ordinary encounters become sites for spiritual practice and mystical experience. A different kind of communicating ability is explored through the awareness of certain principles of philosophical Taoism during the course of our...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
1996
R D Chessick
Those aspects of Heidegger's thought culminating in his notion of "authenticity" are described, and the use of his concepts in the psychotherapy of certain adolescents is suggested. This paper offers some details of Heidegger's position and its applicability to psychotherapy. Heidegger attempted to get around the scientistic attitude of our time by use of a phenomenological description of how...
1996
Brian D. Josephson
The following few chapters are concerned with the problem of consciousness. Their authors do not subscribe to the conventional view that consciousness is ‘just another problem’, to be tackled in a somewhat similar way to the way that science has tackled problems in the past. They believe, and argue in the following, that including conscious experience within the scope of science will involve...
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
1996
Dan Merkur
1 citation
Abstract For the Scandinavian tradition of the history of religions, in which I was trained, not the numinous, but the experience of the numinous is the sui generis subject matter of the discipline; and historians routinely emphasize the experiential aspects of religions. The better to understand religious experience, I work interdisciplinarily with psychoanalysis. Freud's treatment of group...
Theology and Sexuality
1996
Chuck MacKnee
6 citations
The nine-category phenomenological typology of mystical peak experiences proposed by Pahnke (1980) was used to construct a framework for understanding and relating peak potentials for sexuality and spirituality. Examples from mystics—St Catherine of Siena, St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila—demonstrate the erotic connectedness they experienced in spiritual peaks. It is proposed that...
Humanitas
1996
Charles Warren Burchfield, Patrick Neal Fuller
This essay explores Eric Voegelin's recovery of pre-modern experiences as the basis of his own theory of knowledge.It divides roughly into five parts: the first distinguishes between Voegelin's "mystical" epistemology and the intentionalist epistemological theories of modernity; the second finds his mystical epistemology to be rooted in experience of faith and love as symbolized by the...
Revue des sciences religieuses
1996
Roland Sublon
Our aim is to place the fonction of pleasure in the context of theoretical elaboration. For Plato and Aristotle this function is linked to the contemplation of principles. We have taken this into account in this study bearing on ethics and politics and have identified it in relation to the mystical experience. The mystical experience, far from being reduced to the privileges reserved to a...