medRxiv
April 19, 2023
Jennifer Bennett, Michael D. Blough, Ian Mitchell et al.
3 citations
preprint
Abstract This Phase I trial aims to inform the development of safety protocols for psilocybin-assisted therapy. Psychedelics, including psilocybin, are increasingly being recognized as a successful treatment option for many mental health concerns. In order to decrease the risks associated with its clinical use, more data is required regarding its physiological effects in healthy individuals....
Religions
April 16, 2023
Rikard Friberg von Sydow
The mysticism of the 19th and 20th centuries has often been perceived as a reaction towards the new fast, dense, and modern world. But is it not so that it thrives on the same material foundations, globalism, networks, and mass production of text, that built our contemporary global information society? In this article, thoughts found in the writings of the Swedish mystic and translator Baron...
Entangled Religions
April 14, 2023
D. Johannsen
Among modern practitioners of magic, the “psychologization of magic” has become a common strategy to adapt practices such as rituals of invocation to naturalistic thought. In this article, I discuss what was probably the most elaborate attempt to bridge the gap between the magic of the past and magic suited for the present that took place within the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn...
Studia culturae
April 3, 2023
E. V. Boruta
The main object of the article is a philosophical interpretation of the phenomenon of musical synesthesia from the point of view of the philosophy of music by N. O. Lossky and the phenomenology of M. Merleau-Ponty. The original experience of listening to music by S. A. Kuryokhin is taken as an example. The first part of the work describes the tradition and formation of the Russian philosophy of...
Philosophy East and West
April 1, 2023
Anantanand Rambachan
Reviewed by: Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism by Swami Medhananda Anantanand Rambachan (bio) Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism. By Swami Medhananda. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Pp. xv + 412. Hardcover $99.00, isbn 978-0-197624-46-3. As a young man, Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902), founder of the Ramakrishna Mission, addressed a direct question to the teachers...
Harvard Theological Review
April 1, 2023
Agata Paluch
2 citations
Abstract By the end of the sixteenth century, textual manifestations of kabbalah—a variety of Jewish mysticism that first emerged in medieval Provence and Catalonia—achieved the status of elite but authoritative lore in Eastern and Central Europe, even if at times they stirred religious opposition. At the same time, and especially in the seventeenth century, the so-called practical kabbalah,...
Journal of Religion & Film
April 1, 2023
Rebecca Makas
Abstract This article explores the implicit theory of mysticism in Ciro Guerra’s 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent (Sp. El abrazo de la serpiente). While many theories of mysticism argue that true mystical experience is unmediated and, therefore, universal, Guerra makes a more provocative statement in the film. He depicts two Westerners’ attempts to have an entheogenic mystical experience in...
Cahiers ERTA
March 31, 2023
Diego Scalco
Apophatism and Non-duality in the Vedanta and in Ad Reinhardt's work The Ultimate Paintings, a series of abstractions made by Ad Reinhardt during the 1960s, are coupled with writings with obvious affinities to the apophatic formulas of the commentaries of the Upanishads (the philosophical conclusions of the Vedas) known as the “nondual Vedānta” (Advaita Vedānta). The abstractions themselves...
Religious Studies
March 31, 2023
Thomas Williams
Abstract Given that the more apophatic strand of mysticism resonates more with the way contemporary philosophers are apt to think about mystical experience, the fact that apophatic mysticism was a bit of a fringe enterprise in the Middle Ages calls for explanation. The explanations that are suggested within the pages of Christina Van Dyke's A Hidden Wisdom are not typically...
Különleges Bánásmód - Interdiszciplináris folyóirat
March 31, 2023
Meryem Madili
Morocco is known for its cultural and ethnic diversity. In this writing, I would like to shed light on a mystical ethnic group in Morocco that baffled many people from all over the globe; descendants of slaves who traced their origin to Sub-Saharan countries (Mali, Guinea, Ghana, Senegal, Niger). It also refers to a spiritual type of music that can be used as a method of healing with special...