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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis 1982 Hans Hof 1 citation
Phenomena such as ecstasy and mysticism display both psychological and physical features. The purpose of this paper is finding and understanding the structures in human consciousness which characterise the experience of certain kinds of ecstasy. The context in which this task is performed is an outline of fundamental changes in consciousness brought about by those methods of meditation which,...
Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1982 Ronald A. Havens
An outline of a series of hypnotically induced events designed to depotentiate self-consciousness and organized awareness was presented to several volunteers. This series of events was hierarchically structured to minimize anxiety and to maximize responsivity. Preliminary responses indicate that exposure to this series is enjoyable and beneficial and may precipitate an episode similar to what...
Religious Studies December 1, 1981 W. Norris Clarke
This paper is devoted to the task of exploring just what there is in man's nature which makes it possible for him to be open to religious experience, to be positively disposed to receive it. By ‘natural’ here I mean only that which all men are in fact endowed with when they enter this present world of human history before they enter into any particular religious context. Hence I am not going to...
1981 Stephen Vicchio 6 citations
Anabiosis-The Journal for Near-Death Studies Cicero tells us, through the character of Scipio, of a panoramic vision coming as the result of a close brush with death.In this vision Scipio is met by Scipio Africanus, the Elder, a dead ancestor who guides him into paradise.James Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics (1928) contains a number of other cross-cultural examples of out-of-body...
International Journal of Neuroscience 1981 David W. Orme-Johnson, C T Haynes
Males (n = 12, M age 25.6 yrs) with clear experiences (CE) of both "pure consciousness" (unbounded inner awareness without thoughts) and the TM--Sidhi techniques (mental procedures derived from Vedic Science to enhance cognitive, perceptual and other abilities) were compared with unclear experience (UE) males (n = 10, M age 25.5 yrs) on creativity (ideational fluency, Torrance, Novel Uses,...
The Antioch Review 1981 Barbara Kohn, Albert Hofmann 147 citations
Numerous accounts of the discovery of have been published in English; none, unfortunately, have been completely accurate. Here, at last, the father of details the history of his problem child and his long and fruitful career as a research chemist. In a real sense, this book is the inside story of the birth of the Psychedelic Age, and it cannot be denied that we have here a highly candid and...
American Journal of Psychiatry June 1, 1980 R Walsh
In recent years a number of assessments of the non-Western consciousness disciplines have been undertaken by Western behavioral scientists. The author suggests that a variety of conceptual, methodological, experimential, and content inadequacies render the conclusions of these investigations of doubtful validity. He then describes the models of human nature postulated by these disciplines and...
British Journal of Medical Psychology March 1, 1980 M Cramer 11 citations
The so-called mystical possession of Juan Jose Fong, a socially marginal Chinese-Mexican of hysterical personality is directly related to the subject's psychological conflicts and emotional complexes and familial and social standing within the immediate cultural context. The subject is seen as suffering from conflicting emotions and cognitions centering around guilt, inferiority and...
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying December 1, 1979 Russell Noyes, Donald J. Slymen 74 citations
A factor analysis of questionnaire responses from 189 victims of life-threatening accidents yielded three factors of subjective effects. These factors, which included depersonalization, hyperalertness and mystical consciousness, appeared meaningful in terms of the endangered personality's effort to cope with a threat to life. Perception of a serious threat, loss of consciousness, and rescue...
The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry March 1, 1979 J E Runions 6 citations
This paper reviews the phenomenology of the mystical experience and its varied contexts epilepsy, toxicity, organic brain syndromes, the major psychoses and hysterical dissociative states as well as in apparently normal persons. The impact of the experience on the personality is noted and its significance briefly reviewed. The author notes that two fallacies await the unwary psychiatrist: the...