Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental
June 23, 2020
Edward James, Thomas L Robertshaw, Mathew Hoskins et al.
29 citations
Abstract Objective Research into psychedelic therapy models has shown promise for the treatment of specific psychiatric conditions. Mystical‐type experiences occasioned by psilocybin have been correlated with therapeutic benefits and long‐term improvements in positive mental outlook and attitudes. This article aims to provide an overview of the topic, highlight strengths and weaknesses in...
AUC THEOLOGICA
June 18, 2020
K. Majerova
The German Protestant theologian Dorothee Sölle, who came with the central ideas of relationship and reciprocity in the context of feminist liberation theology, accentuates what is known as the mysticism democratisation project. Within the framework of the project of the democratisation of mysticism, mystical sensitivity as a human constant that all people have without difference is thematised....
Journal of Humanistic Psychology
May 15, 2020
Steve Taylor
11 citations
Time Expansion Experiences (TEEs) occur when a person’s normal experience of time slows down or expands significantly. Previous research has associated them mainly with accidents but also with altered states of consciousness such as mystical experiences, psychedelic experiences, and near-death experiences. This article describes a qualitative study of 74 reports of “Time Expansion Experiences”...
German Life and Letters
April 1, 2020
Niamh Burns
1 citation
Abstract This article presents the work of the neglected philosopher and mystic Gerda Walther (1897–1977) as a work of modernist philosophy. It offers an analysis of Walther's two most important texts, Ein Beitrag zur Ontologie der sozialen Gemeinschaften (1922) and Zur Phänomenologie der Mystik (1923), written during Walther's involvement in the Freiburg and Munich circles of early...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
March 9, 2020
Rafael Lancelotta, Alan K. Davis
32 citations
5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a potent, fast-acting psychedelic. Anecdotal reports from 5-MeO-DMT users suggest that they employ a variety of benefit enhancement (BE) strategies aimed to increase positive effects and decrease any potential challenging effects of the substance, but no empirical study has investigated this claim. We examined the prevalence of BE strategy use...
The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology
February 25, 2020
Bernard Mcginn
This chapter is designed as a broad road map of the development of Christian mystical theology down to the Quietist Controversy at the end of the seventeenth century and the triumph of the Enlightenment, which took a generally negative attitude toward the mystical element in Christianity. It follows the main genealogies, or historically coherent traditions of mystical theology, from the...
January 30, 2020
Joseph Azize
Gurdjieff was fundamentally a mystic in that his system was designed to come into a state where the lower centers or “brains” (mind, feeling, organic instinct) are made healthy and are harmonised together and are aligned with the higher “centers”. In Gurdjieff’s teaching, the higher centers receive the impressions which are the content of mystical experiences, but the lower centers, being...
The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series "The Theory of Culture and Philosophy of Science"
2020
The aim of the article consists in comparativistic anlysis of mystical and political theories and practices in frame of the ancient greek and chinese philosophic paradigms. Philosophy as a science pretends to exceed from some self-obvious moments that are nevertheless different in context of different cultures. One can point out accordingly five paradigms: indian, chinese, ancient greek and...
2020
Bernardo Manzoni Palmeirim
Abstract The assimilation of phenomenology by theology (namely of Heidegger by Karl Rahner) exemplifies how a pre-existing philosophical framework can be imported into a theological system by being suffused with belief. Although one would imagine that the incommensurability between philosophy and religion would thus be overcome, the two disciplines risk to remain, given the sequels of the...
2020
Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree et al.
145 citations
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Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University
2020
Mikoshiba Michio, Y. Bondareva
3 citations
. Aim. To carry out a comparative analysis of the rationalistic, phenomenological and mystical methods of knowledge practiced by Russian religious philosophy in their synthesis. Methodology. The study is based on the fundamental principles of historical and philosophical research: the principle of historicism, which makes it possible to obtain a truly scientific assessment of the phenomena...
The Journal of Religion
2020
R. Jones
14 citations
A generation ago the big fight in the philosophy of mysticism was over constructivism versus perennial philosophy. And as Jess BryonHollenback notes, “the contextualist paradigm appears to have scored a resounding triumph over its essentialist predecessor.” Certainly, constructivism today is, as Francis X. Clooney says, the “mainstream consensus.” And as Torben Hammersholt points out, “if one...
Transpersonal Psychology Review
2020
Freya Harrild, David Luke
9 citations
This paper explores both transpersonal psychology and ecopsychology individually and in conjunction, followed by an inspection of their relationship with mystical experiences and the impact of these within a transpersonal ecopsychological context. Specifically, nature as a trigger for such experiences is examined, alongside an analysis of the effect of these nature mystical experiences on an...