Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
March 27, 2023
Muhammad Khuram, Irfan Mehmood, Asad Javiad
preprint
This comparative study is an effort to determine something of the notion of love between two of the great mystical poets, that is, Saint John of the Cross and Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai. There are a few distinctions in their other worldly viewpoints, like love, profound openness, language, and childhood in various settings and group environments. There is a reasonable sign of the likenesses in...
Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy
March 21, 2023
M. Shugurov, S. I. Mozzhilin
Introduction. The purpose of the article is to consider the specifics of the approach to religious and mystical experience in the psychoanalytic tradition from the point of view of revealing the degree of its interdisciplinarity. Theoretical analysis. Using the methods of critical philosophical reflection and dialectical logic, as well as relying on the principle of development, the authors...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
March 20, 2023
Jordan Sloshower, Hamideh Safi-Aghdam, Surbhi Pathania et al.
153 citations
Background: Several early phase studies have demonstrated that psilocybin-assisted therapy has rapid-acting and persisting antidepressant effects from just one or two doses. However, methodological limitations (e.g., placebo-control, blinding) limit interpretability of the existing literature. Methods: In an exploratory placebo-controlled, within-subject, fixed-order study, individuals with...
Religions
March 14, 2023
Ismail Lala
The extremely influential mystic, Muḥyī al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī (d. 634/1240), believes that the most advanced gnostics are imbued with a special power that turns their religious experience into reality. This is the power of himma—the power of existentiation that elite gnostics derive from God’s absolute power of existentiation. Ibn ‘Arabī and his followers assert that this power, which is exercised...
Religie & Samenleving
March 13, 2023
Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg
A growing group of people uses contemplation as a spiritual response to complex global challenges such as conflict. Peace, these contemplative activists argue, is not an external material condition, but an embodied, mystical experience beyond religion, language and social roles that brings about social change. Scholars should therefore reconsider the claim that spirituality in the public domain...
Religion, Brain & Behavior
March 6, 2023
David B. Yaden, Michiel van Elk
Interest in experiences that can broadly be considered religious, spiritual, mystical, and self-transcendent is growing – largely due to recent advances in psychedelic research (Yaden et al., 2021)...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
March 3, 2023
Samuli Kangaslampi
Ingestion or administration of classic psychedelics is sometimes associated with improvements in well-being or mental health. Acute mystical-type experiences that psychedelics occasion have been suggested to be related to such improvements. Meanwhile, other features of the psychedelic experience, such as psychological insights and emotional breakthroughs, are also increasingly being studied....
Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft
March 1, 2023
Timothy R. Grieve-carlson
approach to the figure as perceived to be real, but Young makes much less use of similarly insightful work on the figure’s evolution and political impact by specialists in literature. William Blake is one of the few literary figures whom Young mentions, even though Blake’s political impact was negligible for his vision of a mystically transfigured Britain; neither Ben Jonson, who collaborated...
Psychological Medicine
March 1, 2023
Isabel Wießner, Marcelo Falchi, Fernanda Palhano-Fontes et al.
53 citations
For a century, psychedelics have been investigated as models of psychosis for demonstrating phenomenological similarities with psychotic experiences and as therapeutic models for treating depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders. This study sought to explore this paradoxical relationship connecting key parameters of the psychotic experience, psychotherapy, and psychedelic experience. In...
Consciousness and Cognition
March 1, 2023
Fiona G. Sleight, Steven Jay Lynn, Richard E. Mattson et al.
16 citations
Ego dissolution (i.e., ego loss, ego disintegration, ego death, or self-loss) is a conscious state marked by a loss or diminution of one's sense of self and a lack of first-person experience. We developed a novel, valid, and internally consistent ego dissolution scale to both (a) assess trait-like aspects of ego dissolution, which have received scant attention to date, and (b) facilitate future...