ادبیات عرفانی
September 17, 2026
Haniye Pakravan, Ehsan Reisi
Ecstatic rituals are regarded as among the oldest religious concepts across diverse cultures. These rituals occupy a central and foundational position within certain spiritual traditions and belief systems, while in other religious or cultural contexts, they are rejected or marginalized. In several intellectual and faith-based traditions, trance is understood as a form of altered consciousness...
International Journal for the Study of New Religions
September 16, 2026
WooHyun Jung
Jeffrey J. Kripal’s ten monographs—from Kālī’s Child (1995) to How to Think Impossibly (2024)—have done as much as the work of any single American scholar to put mystical, paranormal, and altered-state experiences back at the center of religious-studies inquiry. Wouter J. Hanegraaff (2008), in the most theoretically substantive review article devoted to that work, has charged that Kripal’s...
Routledge eBooks
September 16, 2026
Kathryn Rickard
This chapter examines Doubt within Releasement Level B of the psychoanalytic model of surrender, describing a disruption in which previously organizing psychic structures no longer hold and no new organization has yet taken their place. Doubt does not appear as ordinary uncertainty but as a shift in how experience is borne, as interpretations, convictions, and orienting frameworks lose their...
Routledge eBooks
September 16, 2026
Kathryn Rickard
This chapter examines Contemplation within Releasement Level B of the psychoanalytic model of surrender, describing a shift in the manner in which attention is held rather than the establishment of a reflective or stabilized state. Following the disruptions of Ecstasy and Doubt , what becomes possible is the capacity to remain with unfolding experience without immediately organizing,...
Metafizika Journal
September 15, 2026
Kamala Panahova
The article examines mystical elements within the Ancient Egyptian tradition. In Ancient Egyptian culture, mysticism was viewed not merely as a collection of religious rituals, but as an esoteric system that clarified the structure of the universe and man's place within the spiritual hierarchy. For the first time, the idea that chosen individuals could achieve enlightenment (attaining secret...
September 15, 2026
B.K. Mallik
Recapitulation of our main position by a fresh analysis of the laws of thought—relation between “actual” and “possible” and “absolute” and “relative”—re-statement of the claim of the Negative—acceptance ofour view of Reality is bound to solve the difficulty between the two types of social order—the actual solution will appear in our treatise on ethics—the strictly religious problem —human faith...
Acta Marisiensis Philologia
September 15, 2026
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Jan de Maere
This article examines the intersection of Emil Cioran’s phenomenology of temporal decay, Oswald Spengler’s morphological theory of cultural decline, and contemporary neuroaesthetic research grounded in predictive processing and embodied cognition. While both Cioran and Spengler share an intuition of civilisational exhaustion, they articulate decline through distinct epistemological frameworks:...
September 14, 2026
P. V. van Rooyen
Testing an artificial system for a property linked to consciousness means applying a measurement developed on brains to a system that is not one. Such a transfer must re-examine five parts of the procedure: the competing statistical models, how they are fitted, the unit the inference generalizes over, the quantity the uncertainty interval is about, and the rule that turns a result into a...
Inkanyiso
September 12, 2026
Thabani Khumalo
African thought has long held the body as a primary site of knowing. In Nguni-Zulu epistemology, izinseka names a class of somatic knowing spanning pre-cognitive reflexive response to another’s distress, cultivated empathic sensitivity of caregivers, and refined diagnostic insight of isangoma. Western psychology has typically approached such knowing through a pathology frame, reading somatic...
Warwick Research Archive Portal
September 11, 2026
Jennifer (Clinical Psychologist) Thompson
The three chapters of this thesis are united under a common theme of exploring mindfulness, specifically with reference to older people. Chapter one: The systematic literature review critically evaluates the evidence for mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) for use with older adults (aged 60 years and older). 12 articles met pre-specified criteria for inclusion. In studies of relatively...