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Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics September 1, 2025 Carlos Piccone-Camere
Review of the book The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism, by Andrew Prevot.
Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality September 1, 2025 Hansol Goo
Abstract:This essay explores the intersection of sacramentality and mysticism in McGinn’s Modern Mystics, particularly his emphasis on God’s transforming presence as central to mystical experience. Mysticism, like the sacraments, is marked by divine encounter, marginality, and mediated presence. In light of McGinn’s use of “presence” and figures like Simone Weil and Michel de Certeau,...
Collectanea Theologica August 31, 2025 Mirosław Kiwka
Along with the cultural interest in spirituality and mysticism in their various dimensions and meanings, which has been growing unabated for decades, there is a need for in-depth philosophical and theological reflection on the commonly referred to as mystical experience – an experiential dimension of religious life. In search of a theoretical elaboration of the phenomenon of human mystical...
August 29, 2025 Romesha Uduwawela
<p><strong>Psilocybin, the psychoactive compound found in certain mushrooms, has gained increasing attention for its potential therapeutic applications in mental health treatment. While clinical research highlights its efficacy in alleviating mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and substance use disorders, much remains to be known about the role of acute doses of psilocybin...
Culture & Psychology August 28, 2025 William B. Parsons
This essay is designed to illumine Sudhir Kakar’s contributions with regard to psychoanalytic theorizing about mysticism and culture. It proceeds in five interrelated parts: (1) presents a broad definitional and comparative context with respect to the academically contested term “mysticism”; (2) explores the initial entry of the psychoanalytic engagement with mysticism (i.e., Freud’s famous...
Religions August 27, 2025 Jinjing Zhu
This paper examines the four-stage process of mystical experience in the Huzi and Lady Yu allegories of the Zhuangzi. It begins with a lifeless stage enabled by the mystic’s purgation of the world and the self. It is followed by a revitalization stage in which Oneness is experienced not only as the introvertive experience of the self but also as the extrovertive truth of reality. It is then...
Anthropology of Consciousness August 27, 2025 Lisa L. Gezon, Kenton Bartlett 1 citation
ABSTRACT The interplay between psychedelic use, mental health, and spiritual, religious, or ‘mystical’ experiences continues to be investigated through clinical research. While many studies focus on general mechanisms underlying these compounds, analysis of real‐life accounts from individuals is underrepresented. To fill that gap, this ethnographic study explores the question of how members of...
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture August 7, 2025 Anna Luigia de Simone
How can you reach the sky? For Salvador Dalí, just turn on your TV. That is, the Liquid and Gaseous Television: one of his inventions (1975) turning TV into a vehicle for cosmic voyages that allow man to communicate with the universe. Perhaps even with God. This device needs no wires. In it, communicative and transcendental horizons converge, updating the surrealist techniques of activating the...
Anglican theological review July 29, 2025 C. Bynum
Responding to Simon Critchley’s recent book Mysticism (2024), which engages with her earlier Christian Materiality (2011), Caroline Bynum compares two well-known mystics, Julian of Norwich and Annie Dillard, who lived six hundred years apart, and argues that to both the material world—nature, conceptions of it, and art in some way reflecting it—was key in her visions of what lay beyond that...
ACS Chemical Neuroscience July 24, 2025 Anjian Yang, Xinyou Lv, Hongshuang Wang et al. 1 citation
This viewpoint reconceptualizes mysticism and fundamentalism as brain network disorders, with psychedelics like psilocybin, lysergic acid diethylamide, and N,N-dimethyltryptamine offering potential to modulate these states. By disrupting rigid neural patterns, psychedelics may foster cognitive flexibility, challenge inflexible belief systems, and offer therapeutic value for extremism and mental...
Journal of Contemplative Studies July 23, 2025 Patricia M. Zimmerman
What does a particular place and its unique yet integrated life-force do for our lamentation amid ecocide? Do we suppose that nature mourns for us? Restores us to full resurrection? I avoid either/or solutions as at best a misplaced romantic optimism and at worst escapism enabling capitalist exploitation. Rather, I draw upon Christian mystics Julian of Norwich, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and John...
Journal of Contemplative Studies July 23, 2025 Douglas E. Christie
“Love’s deepest abyss is her most beautiful form,” so claims Hadewijch of Antwerp, the great medieval Flemish mystic. This strange and alluring idea, shared by many of the apophatic tradition, reflects the sense that the abyssal (sometimes conceived of as a void, a desert, or darkness) is essential to the work of love, and that love can only be known by relinquishing the narrow conception of...
Nova prisutnost July 14, 2025 Ksenija Puškarić
This paper explores the phenomenology of mystical experiences and its philosophical implications. The focus will be on defending Alston’s view that there are perceptual kinds of mystical experiences, a view that has been historically prominent. In Christian mystical tradition the most influential discussions on spiritual senses were led by Origen and respected theologians like Karl Rahner and...
The Journal of Healthcare Ethics & Administration July 3, 2025 Micaela Plantinga, Alexandre A. Martins
Society’s deep divisions, fueled by individualism, competition, consumerism, rigid ideologies, and limited dialogue, have impacted health care, leading to weakened connections between providers and patients. In the U.S., heavy reliance on medical technology and the rise of AI have further eroded these intersubjective bonds, reducing empathetic engagement in care. To address this challenge, the...
The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Series “Philology” July 1, 2025 Kateryna Dubinina
The relevance of this topic is determined by the scientific novelty of the research approach to studying the dramaturgy of M. Maeterlinck, his worldview ideas based on mysticism, as well as the need to trace the influence of the playwright's symbolism on contemporary culture, contemporary theater, and literature. This article attempts to analyze and trace how the concepts of mysticism became...
Trends in Internal Medicine June 30, 2025 Julian Ungar-Sargon
WThis paper extends the concept of literary tzimtzum from Hasidic mystical pedagogy to medical hermeneutics, proposing that the patient-physician encounter can be understood through the lens of parabolic interpretation. Drawing on the Alter Rebbe's theory of meshalim as forms of divine contraction that make infinite meaning accessible to finite consciousness [1], this study argues that patients...
Jurnal Javanologi June 30, 2025 P. Purwadi 2 citations
This article explores the mystical philosophy of Javanese poet Kyai Yasadipura and its relevance as a cultural foundation for achieving world peace. The study aims to examine how Javanese mystical values, as expressed in Yasadipura’s literary works, can offer ethical and spiritual insights for contemporary global challenges. Using a hermeneutic qualitative method, this research interprets...
Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies June 30, 2025 Holly Tsun Haggarty
Curricula have traditionally been concerned with proposing intentions and expectations for the teaching and learning of knowledge. What if curriculum conversed not only with the known, but the unknowable—with mystery? In this work, I investigate mystic traditions to learn about mystery. I come to a characterization of mystery as the dialectical condition of knowing while at the same time not...
PsyArXiv June 19, 2025 preprint
Consciousness is traditionally viewed as a by-product of neurophysiological processes. This work proposes an alternative hypothesis: consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of the brain, but a manifestation of a universal spiritual field — the soul of the Universe. The study integrates concepts from quantum physics, information theory, phenomenology, and transpersonal psychology to offer a...
Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society June 18, 2025 Martin Eleven
This article examines Wilfred R. Bion’s psychoanalysis in its unique interplay between epistemology and mysticism. It then explores the potential of Bion’s concept of O for an alternative understanding of religion within psychoanalysis and beyond. Rather than seeing religion as an archaic relic of human history, Bion makes it possible to understand the encounters with the numinous (the...