International Journal for the Psychology of Religion
October 2, 2023
Z. Chen, Shuozhi Guo, R. Cowden
ABSTRACT The scientific study of psychedelic, religious, spiritual, and mystical (PRSM) experiences can be advanced by applying culturally inclusive qualitative methodologies that illuminate the breadth and depth of individual experiences in a variety of contexts. To enrich the common core thesis of mysticism and offer insights that could contribute more generally to bridging the gap between...
Politics, Religion & Ideology
October 2, 2023
Stefano Bigliardi
Santo Daime is a new religious movement of Brazilian origin blending Catholicism, shamanism, Afro-Brazilian spiritualities, and esotericism. Known for its ceremonial use of ayahuasca, a psychedelic...
New Formations
October 1, 2023
J. Overwijk, Daniël de Zeeuw
Abstract:In the wake of Trump and Brexit, the late 2010s gave rise to an ambient sense of a post-truth crisis. It signals the social media fuelled breakdown of liberal democracy and its 'fourth estate' into fragmented and mutually antagonising epistemic media bubbles. Yet at the same time, the new online political movements driving this crisis became enthralled with the radical sense of waking...
Neuropsychopharmacology
October 1, 2023
Tim Hirschfeld, Johanna Prugger, Tomislav Majić et al.
24 citations
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) is a potent classic serotonergic psychedelic, which facilitates a variety of altered states of consciousness. Here we present the first meta-analysis establishing dose-response relationship estimates of the altered states of consciousness induced by LSD. Data extracted from articles identified by a systematic literature review following PRISMA guidelines were...
Al-NASR
September 30, 2023
Hafiz Mansoor Ahmad (Corresponding Author)
This paper examines the symbolism of light in Jalal al-Din Rumi’s Mathnawi and the Qur’an through the lens of Illuminationist (Ishrāqī) philosophy and classical rhetorical analysis. Light, as a central metaphysical and spiritual symbol in Islamic thought, functions simultaneously as an ontological principle and a rhetorical device. The study explores how Qur’anic imagery of light informs Rumi’s...
Al-Amīr Research Journal for Islamic Studies
September 30, 2023
Haris Bilal, Farhat Yaseen
Sufism is an expression of the aesthetics of Muslim civilization. It makes right acceptable and good worthy of action and makes them attractive to human feeling. When this knowledge and art became organized in the Muslim academic discourse, it remained in the stages of editing and completion for centuries. Many people with high consciousness cultivated this art. And it was served by the power...
Ideas and Ideals
September 28, 2023
Viktoria G. Lysenko
For traditional Indian philosophy, which tends to establish its identity on the basis of the rationally incognizable Absolute (Ātman, Brahman), the verbal expressibility of the latter is one of the central issues. In fact, what is at stake here, is an attitude to language, trust or distrust in its capacity to be a tool for transmitting the experience of reality, which for the Indian tradition...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
September 28, 2023
Lauren Johansen, Paul Liknaitzky, Maja Nedeljkovic et al.
5 citations
As investigations into the efficacy of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to treat depression continue, there is a need to study the possible mechanisms of action that may contribute to the treatment's antidepressant effects. Through a two-round Delphi design, the current study investigated experts' opinions on the psychological mechanisms of action associated with the antidepressant effects of...
Buddhist-Christian Studies
September 27, 2023
Joseph Nguyen
abstract:This article compares and contrasts the Ignatian concept of consolation without previous cause with the Zen Buddhist concept of satori. The aim is to underscore a unique but not commonly recognized characteristic of Ignatian contemplation and promote interreligious understanding. I argue that Ignatian prayer methods, though primarily kataphatic in their approach, share common features...
Religions
September 27, 2023
Magdalene Thomassen
The article first exposes a section in Edith Stein’s masterwork, Finite and Eternal Being, where she explicitly reflects upon the relation between philosophy and theology, and on the possibility of a Christian philosophy. Here, Stein enlarges the scope of rationality when propagating faith as a source of knowledge in its own right. The phenomenological first-person perspective and notions of...