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Religions September 25, 2026 Sanford L. Drob
The philosopher John Niemeyer Findlay (1903–1987) held that the insights of mystical experience can be philosophically analyzed and articulated in rational form. Findlay provided two routes to the “mystical pole of the cosmos.” In the first, he appealed to the related notions of impersonality and impartiality to transcendentally deduce a “firmament of values,” which coalesce into an apical...
Philosophical Investigations September 24, 2026 Kathryn Lawson
ABSTRACT Simone Weil both embraces and fundamentally alters Christian doctrine to suit her own phenomenological experience of the world. Three major issues to consider in reading Weil as a ‘Christian thinker’ are divine Creation, Christ's Resurrection, and mysticism or the possibility of an embodied union with the divine. This essay will examine all three and ultimately argue that, for Weil,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 24, 2026 Hongju Liu 2 citations preprint
Comparing human, non-human animal, and artificial experience requires distinguishing whether a target has phenomenal experience from which aspects of its experience would be comparable if it does. Multidimensional profiles, behavioral similarities, and mechanistic correspondences provide important evidence, but do not by themselves settle measurement semantics, information loss, or the scope of...
Scientific Reports September 24, 2026 Giammarco di Gregorio, Basset Sophia, Harjot Manmohan et al.
Abstract Depression and anxiety affect one in five adults and vary across the lifespan; while prevalence generally declines with age until midlife, later life is marked by a re-emergence of symptoms. Although clinical trials suggest classic psychedelics (e.g., psilocybin, LSD) and non-classic psychedelics (e.g., MDMA, ketamine) may alleviate these symptoms, it remains unclear how these...
Clinical Neuropsychopharmacology and Addiction September 24, 2026 Giacomo D’andrea, Antonio Inserra, Andrea Miuli et al.
While psychedelic experiences are often reported as positive, adverse psychological reactions can occur. We present the case of a 19-year-old Caucasian male who presented to the ER with suicidal thoughts after taking lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) alone. He was diagnosed with anxious state associated with panic attacks, and suicidal thoughts without ideation or behaviors. He was admitted to...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 23, 2026 Arthur Stewart preprint
The six postulates of Integrated Information Theory 4.0 (IIT) (Albantakis et al., 2023) are jointly unsatisfiable, and not because the theory ranks them: the exclusion postulate contradicts itself in successive clauses, integration forbids what composition requires, and the one conflict the theory does adjudicate it adjudicates against itself, excluding from the Φ-structure the determinations...
Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy September 22, 2026 Ilia P. Shiryakov
Introduction. The article examines the mythopoetic experience of feeling reality, posing the question of what reality is within the mythopoetic worldview, and comparing it to mystical and other types of experience in answering the question of the reality. Theoretical analysis. Key properties of the mythopoetic worldview, and of reality as an indistinguishable bundle of the ontological, social,...
September 21, 2026 Miriam Cooke
Contesting centuries of mostly male Sufi claims that wajd cannot be articulated beyond tawājud , Huda Naamani, a Syrian Sufi poet and artist, expresses her experience of ecstasy beyond words on the page to a multimedia performance of sound, dance/whirling, and color that fill in the silences that stop the pen struggling to script the barzakh of ecstasy that stretches into infinity before and...
Knygotyra September 21, 2026 Jennifer Konrad
The notion of a “rise of the individual” in the twelfth century offers a fruitful lens for examining early mystical literature. While the modern idea of individuality does not strictly apply, monastic writers increasingly turned their attention to the anima, the seipsum, and the homo interior. This inward turn positioned the self as a space of divine encounter. Through practices such as...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) September 19, 2026 Géraldine Mossière preprint
5Rhythms (5R) is a dance-based practice founded by Gabrielle Roth (1941-2012) in the late 1970s at the Esalen Institute (Big Sur, CA, USA), a center focused on the development of human potential with a particular emphasis on the body. Roth's teachings were shaped by ecstatic and mystical philosophy, as well as Gestalt therapy. After observing dancers for a decade, Roth noticed that their bodies...