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...
International Journal Middle East Studies
November 1, 1979
Khalil I. H. Semaan
1 citation
It is customary to view the mystic and his experience from at least three angles: the theological, the philosophical, and the psychological. To be sure, the mystical experience represents an extraordinary phenomenon of the highest psychological complexity. Mysticism, nowadays, in this age of Aquarius, many would dismiss as a sick or superstitious accident; on the other hand, those who are...
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...
New Blackfriars
November 1, 1978
Simon Tugwell
In some, perhaps most, cultures metaphysics and mysticism belong together. Even in our own society organizations which bear the name ‘metaphysical’ are likely, an examination, to be found to be concerned primarily with more or less mystical and esoteric doctrines and practices. But it is still typical of the Anglo-Saxon academic world that philosophers have, on the whole, not been frightfully...
American Journal of Psychotherapy
October 1, 1978
E G Solomon, A K Bumpus
The physical technique of slow, long distance running and the mental centering devices of T. M. are combined, using hypnosis in some cases, to enhance a "peak experience," or altered state of consciousness. Indications and contraindications to this technique are described for various psychiatric, psychosomatic and somatic syndromes, and its use as an adjunct to formal individual and group...