ATHENS JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
August 29, 2025
Oliver Thorndike
1 citation
This paper explores the potential for interdisciplinary collaboration between science and the humanities, with a focus on recent advancements in psychedelic-assisted therapy. It provides an overview of key concepts in this emerging field and identifies research gaps that offer opportunities for interdisciplinary integration. Adopting a non-reductionist naturalist framework, the paper views...
NeuroSci
August 27, 2025
Alexander Thomas, R Andrew Chambers
4 citations
Interest in ketamine as a novel treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) has been increasing due to its N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor antagonism and mounting evidence that glutamate neurotransmission is involved in the pathogenesis of both depression and addictions. This narrative review provides an outline of clinical evidence reported in the literature from the 1970s to...
Creative Saplings
August 25, 2025
Ankita Mishra
Kabir Das and Swami Vivekananda were two mammoth Indian mystic saints and poets. Their fundamental works cannot be quantified. The paper involves critical and comparative analysis of spiritual and literary aspects of poems by Kabir Das and Swami Vivekananda-two champions whose poems cut across tradition and time, across orthodoxy. The 15th-century mystic poet Kabir expressed a radical spiritual...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
August 22, 2025
Matthew D. Greaves, Tamrin Barta, Leonardo Novelli et al.
preprint
Abstract The extent to which anatomical connectivity constrains pharmacologically altered brain dynamics remains poorly understood. Here, we combined psilocybin administration with a structurally informed effective-connectivity model to examine how structural connectivity shapes directed inter-regional influences across experiential contexts. Using dynamic causal modeling embedded in a...
Research Square
August 22, 2025
Richard J. Zeifman, George Danias, Gabrielle Agin-Liebes et al.
2 citations
preprint
Abstract Background: Psychedelics can acutely induce mystical experiences and elevated positive mood, which may contribute to the potential benefits of psychedelic therapy. However, there remains limited understanding of the occurrence and importance of specific positive emotional experiences within psychedelic therapy. Therefore, we examined the effects of psychedelics on positive emotional...
Comparative Theology
August 19, 2025
Rouhollah Souri, Mohammad Shirvany
Most Islamic thinkers consider Allah infinite. However, they differ in their interpretations of His infinitude, each attributing their perspective to Islam. Infinitude has various meanings, including numerical, extensive, intensive, and comprehensive infinity. Different schools of thought accept some of these meanings while rejecting others. But what is Islam’s perspective on this matter? The...
August 18, 2025
Rasoul Rahbari Ghazani
This book presents a comparative philosophical study of the concept of the Oneness of Being (waḥdat al-wujūd) in thernworks of the influential Sufi thinker Ibn ʿArabī and the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus. Through a detailed textualrnand conceptual analysis, it explores how both thinkers articulate the relationship between the One (Absolute Reality) and the multiplicity of existence. The...
Warszawskie Studia Teologiczne
August 14, 2025
R. Warchał
This paper examines the epistemological, ontological and mystical aspects of St. Augustine's thought, showing how his reflection on faith, religious experience and cognition shapes a coherent vision of the human relationship with God. The central theme is the search for the light of truth, which, in Augustine's view, involves both intellectual speculation and profound spiritual experience. The...
RCMOS - Revista Científica Multidisciplinar O Saber
August 12, 2025
Carlos Alberto Borges da Silva, Severina de Abreu Vasconcelos
This article examines how contemporary ideologies, techno-utopianism, dialectical materialism, mystical nationalism, and identity progressivism, reproduce gnostic structures by eliminating the constitutive tension between immanence and transcendence. The analysis carefully distinguishes between legitimate concerns (environmental conservation, social justice, technological progress) and their...
Religions
August 11, 2025
Malik J. M. Walker
As Zen Buddhism continues into its second century in the United States, the practices and philosophies transmitted have gone through major, though necessary transformations. At present, the vast majority of Zen temples and centers are “convert” communities that have over time adjusted language, ritual, and tradition to suit pastoral and theological needs. This article lays out a blueprint for a...