MELINTAS
September 7, 2026
Alfathri Adlin, Yasraf Amir Piliang, Bambang Sugiharto et al.
Scholars commonly understand the creation of artworks through images and imagination as creative processes that transform sensory experience. However, previous studies have discussed the concept of the imaginal primarily in the context of mystical experience and have rarely connected it to artistic creation. This study analyzes the role of imaginal experience in the creative processes of three...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Christian Alexander Brown
preprint
This research essay/article argues that cannabis can reasonably be described as psychedelic in a phenomenological sense, even though it is not pharmacologically classified as a classic serotonergic psychedelic such as LSD or psilocybin. The central distinction is between pharmacology and phenomenology: THC acts primarily through the endocannabinoid system, especially CB1 receptor signaling, yet...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Rebekka Waldesruh
preprint
This chapter examines one of the central misunderstandings surrounding the phenomenon traditionally referred to as the “Dark Night of the Soul”: its frequent reduction to clinical depression. Building on the introductory chapter, the present section develops a differentiated comparison between depressive states and the transformative process described in mystical traditions, particularly in the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Rebekka Waldesruh
preprint
This chapter focuses on the central core of the so-called “Dark Night of the Soul” and unfolds its inner structure through the classical distinction between the night of the senses and the night of the spirit, as described by John of the Cross. In contrast to a schematic or linear model, the Dark Night is not understood here as a step-by-step developmental sequence, but as a dynamic and...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
September 7, 2026
Torsten Passie, Michiel van Elk
Common wisdom in the psychedelic literature suggests that early controlled trials of psychedelic therapy were methodologically flawed. In this review we challenge this view and discuss 11 controlled studies that were conducted in the United States and Canada between 1965 and 1977 to evaluate psychedelic (peak) therapy for individuals suffering from alcohol and opioid use disorder and...
Reslaj Religion Education Social Laa Roiba Journal
September 3, 2026
Sholahuddin Al Ayubi, Akhmad Marjuki
This study examines how the graduating process at the Salafiyah Islamic Boarding School in Banten, Indonesia, provides Santris with magical knowledge. In addition to providing religious instruction, pesantren is a site for the transmission of mystical and spiritual traditions based on Sufism and indigenous knowledge. The key subjects of this study include the different magical disciplines that...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 2, 2026
Philip Shube Bawe
preprint
This dissertation investigates the role of Leiblichkeit (“bodiliness”) in the theology of Karl Rahner (1904–1984), arguing that it constitutes a foundational hermeneutical category across the major domains of his thought. Although existing scholarship has recognized Rahner’s emphasis on the concrete and historical character of human existence, it has not adequately examined bodiliness as a...
Issues of Theology
September 2, 2026
Dmitry Ovsjannikov
This article attempts to analyze the genetic connection between the ideas of the Naqshbandiyya tariqa, as recorded in the theological legacy of the prominent 19th century Dagestani sheikh Jamal ad-Din Kazikumukh, and the primary sources of the Sufi mystical-ascetic tradition. The author demonstrates that the Naqshbandiyya tariqa in the Caucasus was not an isolated movement for the elite, but a...
Диалог со временем
September 2, 2026
О.а. Власова, Е.к. Карелина
Составной частью современных исследований феномена религиозно-мистического опыта, осуществляющихся на междисциплинарной основе, является обращение к оригинальным концепциям, сформулированным в религиоведении в конце XIX – пер-вой трети XX в. К одной из концепций, возникшей на пересечении таких научных дисциплин, как психология религии и история религии, относятся взгляды известного французского...
Current Addiction Reports
September 2, 2026
Kathryn Fletcher, Jack Freestone, Nadine Ezard et al.
Abstract Purpose of Review Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) has re-emerged as a potential intervention for substance use disorders (SUDs), yet the psychological mechanisms underlying behaviour change remain poorly synthesised. This scoping review mapped and evaluated proposed psychological processes underpinning PAT in adults with SUDs. Recent Findings Peer-reviewed English-language empirical...