Mystical experience: all studies (page 323)

Human hallucinogenic drug research in the United States: a present-day case history and review of the process.

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs 1991 R J Strassman

Legitimate human research with hallucinogenic drugs, although of great theoretical and practical interest, involves daunting regulatory hurdles that have discouraged investigators from attempting such work. Using the example of the author's own application for and receipt of federal permission to administer N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) to humans, this article reviews the application process,...

DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1991.10472572 Humans Hallucinogens Legislation, drug United states

Mysticism and psychedelics: The case of the dark night

Journal of Religion and Health 1991 Christopher M. Bache 6 citations

This study uses a model of consciousness derived from LSD-assisted psychotherapy to illumine an enigmatic set of painful experiences that occur on the mystic's path known in Western circles as the "dark night." It argues that the dark night experiences described in John of the Cross's classic workDark Night of the Soul can be conceptualized in terms of Stanislav Grofs category of "perinatal...

DOI: 10.1007/bf00986399

The multiplicity of dreams: cognitive-affective correlates of lucid, archetypal, and nightmare dreaming.

Perceptual and Motor Skills October 1, 1990

This preliminary research is the first to compare lucid, nightmare, and archetypal-mythological dreams on dimensions important in previous research on each. A first study of 100 subjects showed all three forms significantly correlated with each other and with estimates of dream recall. In a second study, 41 subjects were selected from the above on the basis of relative specialization in each...

DOI: 10.2466/pms.1990.71.2.627

Karel Werner (ed.): The Yogi and the Mystic: studies in Indian and comparative mysticism. (Durham Indological Series, no. 1.) xv, 192 pp. London: Curzon Press; Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Company, 1989.

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies October 1, 1990 Peter Schreiner

Karel Werner (ed.): The Yogi and the Mystic: studies in Indian and comparative mysticism. (Durham Indological Series, no. 1.) xv, 192 pp. London: Curzon Press; Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Company, 1989. - Volume 53 Issue 3

DOI: 10.1017/s0041977x00152127 Mysticism Karel Theology Art history

Intense personal experiences: subjective effects, interpretations, and after-effects.

Journal of Clinical Psychology September 1, 1990 S R Wilson, R C Spencer

Following leads by Maslow (1964, 1968) and others who described peak experiences, this study was designed to learn more about the (1) subjective effects; (2) after-effects; and (3) interpretations of intense positive and negative experiences. Comparisons were made between respondents' "most positive" and "most negative" experiences and between these positive experiences and those of members of...

DOI: 10.1002/1097-4679(199009)46:5<565::aid-jclp2270460504>3.0.co;2-3

Quasi-Experimental Elicitation of the Differential Report of Religious Experience Among Intrinsic and Indiscriminately Pro-Religious Types

Dimensions of Mystical Experiences June 1, 1990 R. Hood, R. J. Morris, P. Watson

In this research, 73 participants were categorized according to religious orientation (intrinsic, extrinsic, or indiscriminately pro) and were subjected to an isolation tank experience under one of two set conditions (religious or nonreligious). The experience was assessed by means of a modified mysticism scale with two factors: a minimal phenomenological experience factor (I) and a religious...

DOI: 10.2307/1387425

Ayin: The Concept of Nothingness in Jewish Mysticism

The Problem of Pure Consciousness March 29, 1990 Daniel C Matt 48 citations

Abstract There is allure and terror in mystical portrayals of nothingness: Eckhart’s Nichts, John of the Cross’s nada, the Taoist wu, the Buddhist sunyata. Despite appearances, these terms do not express an identical meaning since each mystic names the nameless from within a realm of discourse shaped by his own training, outlook, and language. My aim here is to trace the development of the...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195059809.003.0005

Contemporary Epistemology and the Study of Mysticism

The Problem of Pure Consciousness March 29, 1990 Donald Rothberg 17 citations

Abstract What epistemologies and methodologies help us to understand the phenomena of mysticism? How do these epistemologies and methodologies clarify some aspects of these phenomena while obscuring or occluding other aspects? When we investigate mystical traditions, how and where do we look? Do we look only where we think there is more light to see? In this essay I would like to help open up...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195059809.003.0006

Introduction: Mysticism, Constructivism, and Forgetting

The Problem of Pure Consciousness March 29, 1990 Robert K C Forman 57 citations

Abstract From where-or Whom-does mysticism come? What causes it? What gives mysticism its peculiar but fascinating shape? Is mystical experience a source of reliable knowledge? Is mysticism the same around the world, or nearly so? Or does mysticism differ among various traditions, cultures, and ages? The twelve authors of this book are responding to the recent “received view” on such questions,...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195059809.003.0001

Experience and Interpretation in Mysticism

The Problem of Pure Consciousness March 29, 1990 R L Franklin 6 citations

Abstract Many among an earlier generation of scholars saw in mysticism a distinctive type of experience-a pure or contentless awareness of ultimate reality-which was often made the basis for a “perennial philosophy.’’1 More recently many have distinguished several different types of mystical experience, each tending to recur across different traditions. More recently still has arisen a...

DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780195059809.003.0012

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