Problemos
December 27, 2022
Laurynas Norus
The article deals with the problem of the limits of phenomenality in the phenomenology of E. Levinas and J.-L. Marion. D. Janicaud attributes their positions to a “theological turn” in French phenomenology. Without polemicizing directly with Janicaud, the article does not treat that turn as a distortion or neglect of the phenomenological method and its principles. On the contrary, the author...
Journal of Affective Disorders
December 27, 2022
Aki Nikolaidis, Rafaelle Lancelotta, Natalie Gukasyan et al.
24 citations
BackgroundSubjective experiences seem to play an important role in the enduring effects of psychedelic experiences. Although the importance of the subjective experience on the impact of psychedelics is frequently discussed, a more detailed understanding of the subtypes of psychedelic experiences and their associated impacts on mental health has not been well documented.MethodsIn the current...
Arts
December 22, 2022
Marilyn Freeman, Cat Auburn
This is an interview with moving image artist, writer, and contemplative practitioner, Marilyn (M) Freeman by artist, Cat Auburn. They explore Freeman’s contemplative filmmaking practice, ‘Cinema Divina’ and the relationship of Freeman’s life, artistic practice and research interests to autotheory. Autotheory is widely held to be the coalescence of autobiography with theory (or philosophy)...
Religions
December 21, 2022
Edward Howells
1 citation
Desire is central to John of the Cross’ treatment of the mystical ascent to God. He holds that God is desire and that there is a meeting between human and divine desire in the state of union with God, which is the goal. But it is less clear how this desire is to be understood against John’s programmatic negation of desire on the spiritual journey in both its sensory and spiritual forms,...
Teosofia
December 20, 2022
Muhammad Zainal Abidin, Ridhatullah Assya’bani, Arni Arni et al.
Sufi healing has become an exciting topic to discuss amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Various alternative health treatments remain a concern from a medical and non-medical perspective. One kind of Sufi healing originating from the Banjar community in South Kalimantan is the practice of Batatamba. This study examines the forms, methods and sources of Sufi healing practice that live and develop in...
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
December 16, 2022
Petr Dvořák
The paper explores two avenues to the union of the believer with God in Thomas Aquinas inspired by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite; namely, the intellectual union in faith through the gift of understanding and the union in charity as the basis for the knowledge associated with the gift of wisdom. The former amounts to an intellectual grasp of revealed truths without full understanding of the...
Izvestiya of Saratov University. Philosophy. Psychology. Pedagogy
December 15, 2022
Y. Duplinskya, V. A. Friauf
Introduction. The common version that mystical experience reveals the deep unity of religious traditions, hiding behind the external facade of their differences, seems controversial. Theoretical analysis. It is justified that the similarity between different traditions of mysticism does not express the quintessence of religiosity, as such, but only convergence in a certain phase of the...
Вестник антропологии
December 6, 2022
V. I. Kharitonova
1 citation
В статье речь идет об отдельных практиках (нео)шаманизма, распространенных в XXI в., на фоне характеристики общей ситуации с «возрождением шаманизма» в конце ХХ — начале XXI вв. Национально‑культурное возрождение постсоветского периода трансформировало шаманизм, сменив его форму бытования с индивидуальной на коллективную, — с акцентом на духовном целительстве, с одной стороны, и на религиозной...
Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Studies
December 3, 2022
Leonor Rosales, Victoria Gepty
3 citations
This study aimed to establish the healing rituals and beliefs of Ati (Indigenous People) traditional healers in Aklan, Philippines. The study was anchored on interpretivism, which seeks to comprehend and interpret human activity and participants' experiences. The research used narrative analysis as a qualitative method of research. The study was conducted at Numancia, Aklan, Philippines. This...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
December 2, 2022
Torsten Passie, Jeffrey Guss, Rainer Krähenmann
71 citations
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and similar psychoactive drugs have been used in psychotherapy since 1949, when the first clinical study with lower-dose LSD showed therapeutically relevant effects. This caused an intense interest among psychotherapists and researchers, alike, on an international scale. In 1960, the use of serial lower-dose LSD/psilocybin sessions in a psychoanalytical...