Journal of Human Rights Practice
September 13, 2023
Dustin N. Sharp
1 citation
Abstract Over the last decade, in the United States in particular, there has been an increasingly acute awareness of historic and ongoing social, racial, gender, and other disparities, and the frequent deployment of categories (for example BIPOC, LGBTQQIA2SP+, Latinx) and concepts (for example ‘cultural appropriation’, ‘white privilege’, ‘intersectionality’) that centre thinking and...
Anthropology of Consciousness
September 13, 2023
El‐sayed El‐aswad
2 citations
This paper is positioned within broader scholarly debates about ritual‐religious and psychological elements underlying the phenomenon of altered states of mind in Egyptian Muslim contexts. This research examines the intricate relationships between ritual, consciousness, and the unseen/unknowable world reflected in the imagination and practices of urban and rural communities belonging...
Indonesian Journal of Islamic Literature and Muslim Society
September 12, 2023
Habib Habib, Moh Habib
3 citations
Symbols play an important role in conveying the sufis’ spiritual experience. Describing their mystical journeys has been proven to be challenging because their journeys occur outside common people’s realm of thinking. Their symbolic framework are only known by those who possess pure hearts and the knowledge of kashf (a state of religious epiphany where someone was given the power by the God to...
September 11, 2023
Peter J. Columbus
This chapter is theistic critique Alan Watts’ mystical philosophy considered a type of pantheism. The critique is fourfold: (1) It is argued that Watts cannot account for the validity of everyday consciousness; (2) Watts conflated Christian mystical experience with non-Christian mystical experience; (3) Watts’ arguments are self-contradictory in that they employ logic in the rejection of logic...
September 11, 2023
Peter J. Columbus
This chapter is a five-part critical appraisal of Alan Watts’ work considered perennial philosophy. The inquiry begins with brief assessment of the Eastern and Western literatures influencing Watts’ thought vis-à-vis perennial philosophy and mystical experience. The remaining examination is focused on the logical cohesion and coherence of Watts’ understanding of mystical experience. The general...
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
September 10, 2023
Deny Susanti, Muhammad Fazli Taib Saearani
The Pakon ritual is a revered ceremonial practise that seeks to alleviate a range of traditional ailments through the enactment of dances executed by individuals exhibiting signs of possession. The present study employs a qualitative research methodology utilising a case study design. The selection of participants for the research study was based on the snowball sampling method. The data...
Current Psychology
September 8, 2023
Camile Bahi, Mona Irrmischer, Katrien Franken et al.
27 citations
Abstract Breathwork as a means of inducing non-ordinary states of consciousness is gaining traction as a potential therapeutic modality. We examined the effects of breathwork (in the form of connected breathing) on electroencephalography (EEG) and mood in 20 healthy participants (aged between 23 and 39 years (female = 11, M age = 29). In addition, to compare with other means of inducing...
Journal of Psychoactive Drugs
September 7, 2023
Marianna Graziosi, Manvir Singh, Sandeep M. Nayak et al.
10 citations
ABSTRACT Reports of psychedelic experiences may contain similarities and differences across cultural contexts, but most current characterizations and quantifications of psychedelic experiences come from Western medical and naturalistic settings. In this article, we begin with a brief history of the diversity of psychedelic use in non-Western settings. We then compare and contrast accounts of...
Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education Herald. Series: Philosophy, Pedagogy
September 5, 2023
Mykhailo G. Murashkin
The article provides a comprehensive analysis of domestic and foreign developments on the issues of a certain state of man in general and the state of TERMINATION in the religious and secular life of man in particular; the concept of «termination» is substantiated; the content of the leading concepts of the problem is revealed. The signs, types, functions, and qualities of the TERMINATION state...
September 4, 2023
Ștefan Constantinescu
Desire: An Inoperative Language? Exploring the Mystical Experience of Bernard of Clairvaux with the Philosophical Thought of Giorgio Agamben was published in Der Mensch als Bild des unergründlichen Gottes on page 211.