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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:...
Journal of Religion and Health September 13, 2026 Rohman Hikmat, Muntazhar Nur Syabana, Ade Kosasih et al.
The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into everyday life has created new intersections among digital technology, spirituality, mystical experience, and psychopathology. This scoping review aimed to map evidence on how AI mediates, reinforces, detects, predicts, or interprets religious and spiritual experiences at the boundary with psychosis and dissociation. PubMed, Web of...
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...
Knowledge Commons (Lakehead University) September 11, 2026 Darshi Arachige
This article synthesises a framework positioning the cross-cultural practice of secluding girls at puberty as a forerunner to institutionalised religion, tracing its structural roots deep into the Upper Palaeolithic. Integrating ethnographic documentation, portable art, parietal cave art, and socio-cultural history — including European shamanism and the witch cult — the synthesis argues for an...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology September 9, 2026 Friederike Holze, F Müller, Peter Gasser et al.
Abstract Background Anxiety disorders are a major health burden and current treatment options yield unsatisfactory results. Psychedelics, such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) that act via agonism on serotonin 2A receptors, have recently been shown to be effective in the treatment of anxiety symptoms. Aims & Objectives Here, we determine the relationship between the acute experience and...
The International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology September 9, 2026 Lisa Harada, K Yonezawa, K Kusudo et al.
Abstract Background Despite sequential treatments with conventional antidepressants, many patients with depression experience insufficient clinical improvement, referred to as treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Psilocybin, a serotonergic psychedelic acting as a 5-HT2A receptor agonist, has attracted increasing attention as a novel treatment, with clinical trials demonstrating rapid and...
Folk art and ethnology September 7, 2026 Nestor A. Manichkin
The article is devoted to the analysis of the historical and ethnocultural transformations of Kyrgyz shamanism in the 20th – 21st centuries. Attention is focused on the evolving roles, practices, and worldviews of sacred specialists such as bakshi, bubi, kuuchu, and dubana. The impact of major historical factors, including the gradual Islamization of the region, Soviet anti-religious policies,...
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...