Philosophy Journal
April 2, 2026
Konstantin Yu. Burmistrov
The article analyzes the attempt to create a holistic doctrine of the historical process, undertaken by the German philosopher and Hebraist Franz Joseph Molitor (1779–1860). Molitor’s views, expressed in his major work, “The Philosophy of History, or On Tradition” (1827–1857), were based both on the philosophical ideas of Schelling and the concepts of Jewish mysticism (Kabbalah). An expert...
Bibliothèque de la Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique
April 1, 2026
This volume brings together contributions by colleagues, friends, and (former) students of Rob Faesen SJ on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Rob Faesen was the founder and director for more than twenty years of the Institute for the Study of Spirituality at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven, as well as lecturer at the Ruusbroec Institute, Faculty of Arts, University of...
Studies in Christian Ethics
March 31, 2026
D. Çöl
Simone Weil is not a thinker one would usually associate with film. Her concerns are found in the philosophy of Plato, in Christian mysticism, and in an ethics of love that demands the withdrawal of the self from the world. Yet this article argues that her thought has a good deal to say about film, and specifically about what the formal conditions of filmmaking make possible ethically. It works...
Clinical Reviews & Cases
March 31, 2026
Julian Ungar-Sargon
This essay articulates a distinction between my formal theological work—which engages the scholarly apparatus of Elliot Wolfson's phenomenology, Jonathan Eybeschütz's radical mysticism, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe's teachings on divine concealment—and my personal, experiential understanding of 'higher power' as it functions in spiritual practice. While my academic writing explores the objective...
Al-Qamar
March 31, 2026
Dr. Muhammad Shah, Dr. Muhammad Akram Rana
Multan has historically remained one of the most significant centers of Islamic spirituality, Sufism, and intellectual culture in South Asia. Renowned as the “City of Saints,” the region developed a distinctive spiritual and cultural identity under the influence of various Sufi orders whose khanqahi institutions played a vital role in religious instruction, moral refinement, social reform, and...
Journal of Religion and Health
March 31, 2026
Ana Cláudia Mesquita Garcia, Everson Meireles, Eliza Mara Das Chagas Paiva et al.
Mystical experiences are commonly described in the context of psychedelic use and other forms of expanded states of consciousness. Although the Mystical Orientation Scale Revised (MOSR) has been used in international studies, no Brazilian Portuguese version had been tested to date. This exploratory study aimed to translate, culturally adapt, and examine the psychometric properties of the MOSR...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 31, 2026
Tenzin Trepp
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This paper develops a comparative philosophical analysis of minimal-duality and “bare” consciousness as introspective limit-concepts—notions that emerge when reflexive awareness approaches the edges of self-representation and differentiation. By examining selected traditions (Neoplatonism, Advaita Vedānta, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Taoism, and Kabbalah) as illustrative case studies rather than an...
medRxiv Preprint Server
March 31, 2026
Maia Mallevays, Louise Fuet, Michel Danon et al.
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Esketamine is a fast-acting antidepressant drug which induces acute psychoactive effects. The most frequent is a dissociative state which seems unrelated to therapeutic efficacy. Other esketamine-induced effects, including psychedelic-like mystical experiences, have been poorly studied in terms of phenomenology and frequency, and may carry specific therapeutic relevance. In this study, we...
Psychiatry and Clinical Psychopharmacology
March 30, 2026
Kenji Hashimoto, Feyza Arıcıoğlu, Mesut Çetin
Major depressive disorder remains a leading cause of disability worldwide, and current antidepressants are limited by delayed onset and incomplete response. Building on advances driven by ketamine research, renewed interest has focused on classical serotonergic psychedelics—particularly psilocybin, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), 5-methoxy-DMT, and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)—which, under...
ACADEMIA International Journal for Social Sciences
March 27, 2026
Muhammad Naeem Shah, Saima Parveen
The article provides a close study of the literary and mystical meanings of Urdu ghazal "Ka'ba kā shauq hai na sanam khāna chāhiye" by Bedam Shah Warsi. It is discussed in the context of Sufi poetry and the qawwali tradition of the Indian subcontinent. Bedam Shah Warsi (1876-1936), who was the disciple of Haji Waris Ali Shah and famous for na'tiya and mystic verses, constructs the ghazal...