Litera
May 1, 2026
Alina Georgievna Sil'cheva
The article is devoted to the study of the origins and development of mystical realism in Russian prose of the 20th and 21st centuries. It presents the author's concept of the influence of mystical and mythological aspects on the literary process, summarizing the experience of domestic prose in adapting, transforming, and "rejecting" mysticism. It is noted that socialist realism dominated...
Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
May 1, 2026
Roman Seidel, Vicky Ziegler
ʿ Abd al-Kar ī m al-Qu š ayr ī ’ s (d. 456/1072) statement “ praiseworthy speech is talking to God with the tongue of the heart ” 1 evokes a fundamental assumption shared across the Su fi tradition: that the encounter between God and the seeker unfolds in a mode of expression not reducible to ordinary speech. This “ tongue of the heart ” signals a register in which metaphor becomes...
Toronto Journal of Theology
May 1, 2026
L. Malcolm
In his commentary on the Magnificat, Martin Luther identifies experientia as the “school of the Holy Spirit.” By weaving together Pauline cruciformity with the evocative strains of the Psalms, prophets, and sapiential literature, Luther presents Mary's Spirit-wrought ecstasy not merely as private rapture, but as prophetic witness—a mystical upheaval that unmasks God's subversive activity in the...
Cultural Arts Research and Development
May 1, 2026
Albrecht Classen
Older research had traditionally assumed that the genre of utopias emerged only with Thomas Morus’s Utopia (1516), that is, at a time when the concept of the early modern nation had reached maturity and when intellectuals began to question the political status quo, looking for political and social alternatives in a future or projected world. Medievalists, however, have argued by now against...
Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
May 1, 2026
Paulo G. Pinto
Abstract This article analyzes the ritual mobilization of the Prophet and his family as concrete symbols in the collective rituals of the Sufi communities in pre-war Aleppo, Syria. The members of the family of the Prophet did not stand simply as holy figures who derived their sacred character their role in the sacred history of Islam, but they were also connected to mystical states and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
May 1, 2026
Volha Korbut Salman
preprint
This article aims to investigate the perdurable presence of shamanic archetypes across world literatures with a particular emphasis on English and Turkic narrative traditions. As a manifestation of the primordial spiritual practice, shamanism provides a solid framework for understanding the tenacious engagement of humanity with transcendental experiences, healing rituals, the search for...
Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques
May 1, 2026
Bahram Alizade, Roman Seidel
2 citations
Abstract This article examines metaphors of freedom in Rumi’s Masnavi through the lens of the Simile Theory, which posits that metaphors are condensed forms of similes, grounded in similarities between two conceptual domains. Rumi employs two distinct types of metaphors to convey the concept of freedom: apparently similar metaphors (e.g., liberation, breaking chains) and apparently opposite...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
May 1, 2026
Vincent J Diehl, Abigail E. Calder, Gregor Hasler
Existing tools assess psychedelic experiences, but none specifically measure altered processing of traumatic memories-a key mechanism in trauma-focused therapies and psychotherapy in general. The helioscope effect describes how psychedelics like psilocybin and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) enable revisiting challenging or traumatic experiences while remaining protected from...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
May 1, 2026
Grace Viljoen, Henrik Walter, Antonia Bendau et al.
3 citations
Psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) has demonstrated substantial efficacy across a range of mental disorders. However, heterogeneity between patients confers differential responsiveness. This systematic review aims to explore factors which may predict therapeutic responses to PAT. A systematic search was performed from inception through to March 2024 and studies that assessed predictors of...
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies
April 30, 2026
Wojciech Słomski
This article argues that hesychasm, as articulated by Gregory Palamas, constitutes a genuine locus theologicus when ‘experience’ is construed within a disciplined epistemological and ecclesial framework. Against both rationalist reductions of theology to discursive inference and subjectivist appeals to immediate experience, Gregory Palamas develops a participatory epistemology in which...