Manuskripta
June 30, 2023
Anak Agung Gde Alit Geria
The Modre, revered as Balinese sacred scripts, holds significance within the Balinese community for the virtues (kottaman) attributed to its characters in the context of traditional Balinese medicine (usadha). Modre scripts excellence is a vital component in therapeutic practices, believed to possess mystical and supernatural powers. Various palm-leaf manuscripts, including Aji Saraswati,...
IJORESH Indonesian Journal of Religion Spirituality and Humanity
June 30, 2023
Aris Widodo, Akh. Kholis Hayatuddin, Cintami Farmawati
1 citation
Grounding on Ian Graeme Barbour’s (1923-2013) typology of relationships between science and religion, this article addresses the issue of the spiritual journey, with special reference to the discourse of stations (maqa>ma>t) and states (ah}wa>l), in the context of humanity study, that is, psychology of religion. According to Barbour, there are four types of relations between science and...
University of Toronto Press eBooks
June 30, 2023
Merin Shobhana Xavier
1 citation
On 16 April 2020, on Facebook, while promoting Omid Safi's new online course "The Heart of Rumi's Poetry, " Zia Inayat-Khan posted the following: "My grandfather said, 'Rumi's work is so great that if one has read and understood it one has learnt every philosophy there is." Safi has not been the only one to utilize online platforms to share Rumi's teachings.Baraka Blue, a musician and artist,...
Diálogo
June 30, 2023
Stephen D. Edwards
Mystical, panentheistic lines from Wordsworth’s poem, Tintern Abbey, constitute inductive case study material to introduce HeartMath science’s Global Consciousness Project (GCP). This case study provides a temporal dimension along which to view the cosmic significance of Wordsworth’s “felt sense”, Teilhard de Chardin’s “noosphere” and the GCP. A heuristic phenomenological method is employed....
June 30, 2023
Matt P D Gwyther, Jane E. Aspell
3 citations
preprint
Flotation-Reduced Environmental Stimulation Therapy (REST) and mindfulness meditation (MM) are known to induce altered states of consciousness (ASC) and self-consciousness. In this study, we use a phenomenological and predictive processing (PP) framework to compare the interventions alongside the psychedelic experience. Ego-dissolution scores were greater than ego-inflation scores in both...
June 29, 2023
David Luke, Pascal Michael, Oliver Robinson
Introduction: Much research has focused on the modeling of the near-death experience (NDE) by classical and atypical psychedelics; however, to date, no study has reported on the relationship between the NDE and the experience induced by the highly potent, endogenous psychedelic drug 5-Methoxy-DMT (5MeO-DMT). This article presents a case study of an individual who is popularly documented to have...
Creative Saplings
June 26, 2023
Kokila Sehgal Mathur
1 citation
Sir Thomas Browne was a physician, a man of science as well as a mystic and antiquarian exploring the mystery of Creation, God and the nature of human life. Religio Medici or the Religion of a Doctor (1635), reveals a symbiotic relationship between his rational and scientific mind and his religious beliefs. His mystic speculations and meditative reveries are triggered by his scientific study of...
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June 26, 2023
Revolutionary changes in the intellectual development of mankind are discussed. This is the emergence of a second human signaling system, awareness of the nature of the formation of cognitive abilities of the human brain and the formation of highly intelligent neural networks. The nature of the formation of the second signaling system was determined not only by an increase in the number of...
International Journal of Social Sciences
June 25, 2023
Shuang Li
Mystical experiences have always been studied with a sense of awe and mystery both by the laypersons as well as the scientists.Today due to advancements in Spiritual Psychology, Consciousness studies and Meditation studies, they are being explored from a scientific perspective.As a result several features, identifying criteria, and unique characteristic of these experiences have surfaced in...
Forum Philosophicum
June 22, 2023
Daniel H. Spencer
In this essay, I evaluate the extent to which some currents in classical Christian mysticism might count as properly ‘Christian’ against the rules of faith and theological methodology of thinkers like Tertullian, Irenaeus, and Justin Martyr. I begin by expounding this methodology as it relates to non-Christian philosophical traditions, and from there explore the rules these thinkers offer,...