Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
September 19, 2024
Gabriella Gobbi
7 citations
For 3000 years, psychedelics have been used in religious contexts to enhance spiritual thinking, well-being, and a sense of community. In the last few years, a renaissance in the use of psychedelic drugs for mental disorders has occurred in Western society; consequently, a pressing scientific need to elucidate the intricate mechanisms underlying their actions has arisen. Psychedelics mainly...
Linacre Q
September 15, 2024
Thomas Carroll
4 citations
. This has led to widespread interest in psychedelic compounds being used for recreation, treatment of mental illness and addiction, and even the so-called "enhancement" of individuals and society. This renewed interest in psychedelics has resulted in seemingly endless publications in both the popular and the academic press, including authors from fields as diverse as philosophy, theology,...
حکمت صدرایی
September 13, 2024
Ahmad Ebrahimzadeh, Mohammad Mahdi Gorjian
One proposed solution to address the validity of mystical experiences for non-mystics is to emphasize their frequency (tawatur). This approach suggests that certain mystical claims can be considered valid due to multiple reports from different mystics. This solution, which has been considered in Mulla Sadra's philosophy after Suhrawardi, can be seen as one of the best approaches in addressing...
Philosophical Perspectives on Psychedelic Psychiatry
September 13, 2024
Virginia Ballesteros
1 citation
Abstract This chapter provides a philosophical account of the potential of the psychedelic experience to treat depression. The main thesis is that such a potential lies in the possibility of psychedelics allowing us to experience a world diametrically opposed to that of depression: the psychedelic experience can be world-shifting. Building on Ludwig Wittgenstein’s insights and notions of...
Religions
September 10, 2024
Giovanni Nikolai Katzaroff
In popular discourse, it is not uncommon to highlight the distinctiveness of systems of “Eastern thought” (e.g., Daoism) in contrast to so-called “Western” systems. However, there is an interesting congruence between Daoism and Meister Eckhart’s mystical theology, particularly in regard to the concepts of the Dao and the Godhead. Like the Dao, the Godhead is the “ground” of all being,...
Journal of Philosophical Investigations
September 10, 2024
Amita Valmiki
The paper concentrates on the philosophical discourses of four thinkers – Soren Kierkegaard, M. K. Gandhi, R. D. Ranade and B. R. Ambedkar on Ethics and Religion. Soren Kierkegaard, whose journey in philosophy made him pass through the aesthetic stage to ethical stage and ultimately religious stage landing in the realm of “faith”; where an individual arrives at without any rational commitment....
Translational Psychiatry
September 4, 2024
Patrick Vizeli, Erich Studerus, Friederike Holze et al.
15 citations
The pharmacodynamic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) are diverse and different in different individuals. Effects of other psychoactive substances have been shown to be critically influenced by non-pharmacological factors such as personality traits and mood states. The aim of this study was to determine pharmacological and psychological predictors of the LSD effects in healthy human...
Frontline Social Sciences and History Journal
September 1, 2024
Jasurbek Abdullayev
This article explores the metaphysical concepts of "Uruj" (ascent) and "Nuzul" (descent) as articulated by Aziz Nasafi, a prominent scholar of medieval Islamic philosophy and mysticism. Nasafi’s philosophical framework integrates elements of Avicennian metaphysics and Sufi mysticism to elucidate the cyclical journey of the soul and its spiritual evolution. Drawing on primary texts and scholarly...
Ethics & the Environment
September 1, 2024
Russell C. Powell
Abstract: Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams, exemplars of the American nature writing tradition and representative examples of modern American environmentalist politics, replicate the foundationalist epistemological assumptions of mystics in the Christian tradition. I examine the work of Richard Rorty for the encouragement his pragmatism gives to environmentalists to move away from...
Neuroimage
September 1, 2024
Charlotte Martial, Andrea Piarulli, Olivia Gosseries et al.
10 citations
During fainting, disconnected consciousness may emerge in the form of dream-like experiences. Characterized by extra-ordinary and mystical features, these subjective experiences have been associated to near-death-like experiences (NDEs-like). We here aim to assess brain activity during syncope-induced disconnected consciousness by means of high-density EEG monitoring. Transient loss of...