International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research
August 6, 2026
Abstract Paulo Coelho's Hippie (2018) reimagines his own passage across the 1970s “Magic Bus” route from Amsterdam to Kathmandu as a hybrid of memoir and myth, folding autobiography into a narrative of spiritual seeking. This essay argues that the novel uses the physical itinerary of the historical Hippie Trail to stage an internal itinerary, in which the countercultural rejection of Western...
Proceeding of Annual International Conference on Islamic Education
August 3, 2026
The relationship between Islam, local culture, and national identity has become a central concern in contemporary studies of Indonesian Islam. While previous scholarship has extensively explored Sufism, religious authority, Islamic revivalism, and cultural accommodation, limited attention has been paid to the role of local mystical spirituality in shaping collective national belonging. This gap...
Journal of Historical Research Law and Policy
August 3, 2026
Sarvat Soleimanzadeh Afshar, Valiollah Saki, Nasrin Tavakoli
This study aims to provide a historical and comparative explanation of the relationship between Khorasani mysticism and Andalusian mysticism in the 12th century CE, with a focus on the intellectual contributions of Sanāʾī and Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī. Despite the considerable geographical and cultural distance between eastern Khorasan and western al-Andalus, the mystical current in both regions...
Journal of Contemplative and Holistic Education
August 1, 2026
Vicki Boley
This paper explores poetry as a form of liminal inquiry, positioning poetic practice as an embodied, intuitive, and relational mode of meaning-making within the complexity of teaching and learning. Drawing on a reflective collection of poems written during a doctoral course on Mysticism and Activism in Education, the author revisits this work from a current perspective as an educator and...
Journal of The Scientific Mysticism and Literature
July 30, 2026
Morteza Ebrahimi
Understanding oneself is the key to grasping the realities of the human world. The entrance to this field is only possible through sharing views and understanding their ideas, since the ultimate goal of a mystic is to understand and convey his understanding based on order and practice. The basis of Mysticism and understanding is merely mind and thinking, because the process of thinking itself...
Psychopharmacology
July 17, 2026
Richard Saville-Smith, Sharday Mosurinjohn
This paper critiques the use of the term "mysticism" in psychedelic research, arguing its continued use is outdated and misleading. It highlights the confusion stemming from the historical context of "mysticism," particularly through the works of Walter Stace and Walter Pahnke, whose ideas have shaped the psychedelic discourse despite being flawed and largely unexamined. The paper is divided...
July 14, 2026
Cyril O’Regan
Abstract Apophatic theology in the Christian tradition connotes far more than a peak experience of union with the transcendent God who exceeds name and concept. For Christian thinkers East and West such experiences were considered an adumbration in time of the eschatological state as one of permanent beatitude, whether this state was considered more nearly in static terms (as in the West) or...
July 12, 2026
Nina Bilokopytova
The beginning of the twenty-first century has been marked by profound transformations in the ways reality, human beings, and society are understood. The rapid development of cognitive science, neuroscience, complexity theory, synergetics, quantum physics, digital technologies, and artificial intelligence has prompted a fundamental reconsideration of many traditional assumptions concerning the...
Journal of Language, Literature, Social and Cultural Studies
July 9, 2026
Zahwa Aliya Rastiani, Afita Putri Korindri, Mitha Adinda Kusumaningrum et al.
This research focuses on the symbols of mysticism and the psychology of mysticism in the novel Hilang Dalam Dekapan Semeru (Aditya, 2025). Mystical symbols such as the figure of a woman dressed in white, frankincense, offerings, dolls, free-range chicken eggs, seven-faced flowers, and the mystical experiences of climbers are analysed in the real world and the supernatural world in Javanese...
July 3, 2026
Rohitth Ajay, Srishti Muralidharan
This chapter explores mystical experiences and esoteric belief systems by examining their influences in terms of cognition, emotion regulation, identity formation, and mental health. It also traces how historical marginalization of esotericism shaped thought processes through which individuals validate their mystical experiences. Within this context, mystical traditions are addressed as...