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2025
Why do people seek a connection to something beyond the social dimensions of the world? Ecstatic experiences are often labelled religious, spiritual, mystical or even sacred. However, ecstasy is not just extraordinary; for many people throughout the world it is an ordinary part of daily life. The Handbook highlights the diverse individuals who have experienced ecstasy in the past and present...
Study of Religion 2025 S. Bereznitsky
The activity and creativity of Svetlana Zarasyevna Hodger, a Nanai craftswoman and storyteller, help her relatives solve various life problems. This article investigates the influence of her lucid dreams on the process of creating works of art and crafts, which have long been of interest to ethnographers, art historians, and local historians in Russia. Her works have been presented in...
Schole Ancient philosophy and the classical tradition 2025 Maria Durova
The Far Eastern tradition included a variety of religious rites and mystical practices, thanks to which people experienced unity with nature and the universe. Unlike the mystery cults of ancient Greece, the goal of these practices was not individual contact with the sacred, but the maintenance of the universal world order and the common good. Apparently, for the entire vast region of East Asia,...
Social Science Research Network 2025 Denys Spirin preprint
This work presents a innovative ontological framework centered on the primacy of differentiation, offering a profound rethinking of being, consciousness, and relationality. Drawing from philosophy, science, religion, and technology, the author articulates a layered model of reflexive differentiation (R0–R7), which charts the emergence of complexity—from biological individuation to ethical...
Studia Paradyskie 2025 Tadeusz Kuźmicki
Mistykę często utożsamia się niemal wyłącznie ze sferą duchową, co sprawia, że traci ona swoje istotne odniesienie do rzeczywistości widzialnej i ludzkiego działania. Niniejszy artykuł podejmuje próbę ukazania etycznych aspektów wynikających z doświadczenia mistycznego — rozumianego jako głębokie przeżywanie obecności Boga — na przykładzie trzech postaci: św. Augustyna z Hippony, św. Faustyny...
American Journal of Medical and Clinical Research & Reviews 2025 Julian Ungar-Sargon
This article examines the question of whether living beings possess an innate, unchangeable nature or have the capacity for fundamental transformation—a question with profound implications for treating addiction-related physical illness. By integrating diverse perspectives from religious and philosophical traditions, mystical thought, modern neuroscience, genetics, and clinical approaches to...
Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025 Vince Polito, Stephanie Howarth, Andrew Roberts et al.
Anomalous experiences, such as hallucinations and mystical experiences, are positively related to delusional ideation, religiosity, and paranormal beliefs. Some researchers argue that these relationships are explained by 'transliminality'-a trait describing sensitivity to stimuli crossing the threshold into consciousness. This claim suggests such beliefs may be attempts to interpret barely...
International Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Journal 2025 John Calvin Chatlos, Ralph L. Piedmont, Nina A Cooperman et al. 1 citation
Objective: Previous studies claim a healing effect on psychological and medical symptoms beyond the biopsychosocial construct of medicine to include a “spiritual” aspect with added experience of wholeness and well-being. A recommendation for the development of a human ontological model for research of this spiritual domain has been suggested. The objective of this study was to test feasibility...
The American Journal of Bioethics 2025 Daniel Villiger 7 citations
The presence of unusual features in psychedelic treatments has led to the argument that these treatments are exceptional within medicine and should therefore also be treated as exceptional when ana...
Treasury of Persian Language and Literature 2025 Dariush Zolfaghari
This article aims to conduct a comparative analysis of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the seven mystical valleys presented in Attar’s Conference of the Birds. Despite the fundamental differences between the two systems—one emerging from modern humanistic psychology and the other rooted in Islamic–Persian mysticism—the step-by-step comparative analysis demonstrates that in both, the...