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Religions March 28, 2023 J. Stephenson
The Mahānayaprakāśa of Śitikaṇṭha is an understudied text within Kashmir Śaivism, notable for its rich description of the inner structure of consciousness vis-à-vis the body and the natural world, and esotericization of Left-Handed Tantric Practice. Furthermore, it is also significant in its form; like the Buddhist dohākoṣas it consists of Apabhraṃśa verses with accompanying Sanskrit...
Folia Pharmacologica Japonica March 28, 2023 Daisuke Ibi 1 citation
Major depressive disorder presents a substantial global health burden, and at least 30-40% of patients exhibit treatment resistance to antidepressants. Ketamine, an NMDA receptor antagonist, is used as an anesthetic agent. In 2019, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved esketamine (the S-enantiomer of ketamine) as a therapeutic agent for treatment-resistant depression; however,...
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...