Frontiers in Psychiatry
July 12, 2022
Kwonmok Ko, Gemma Knight, James Rucker et al.
296 citations
The mystical experience is a potential psychological mechanism to influence outcome in psychedelic therapy. It includes features such as oceanic boundlessness, ego dissolution, and universal interconnectedness, which have been closely linked to both symptom reduction and improved quality of life. In this review, 12 studies of psychedelic therapy utilizing psilocybin, ayahuasca, or ketamine were...
Cannabis
July 11, 2022
Mitch Earleywine, Maha N. Mian, Brianna R. Altman et al.
11 citations
Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy has established antidepressant effects. Cannabis users appear to expect high doses administered in a session much like psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to create comparable subjective effects. The current studies explored expectations of antidepressant effects of such cannabis-assisted sessions to replicate and extend previous work. Users not only expected a...
El Azufre Rojo
July 5, 2022
Carlos Federico Barboza de Souza
Resumo: Parte de uma pesquisa para minha tese doutoral, este artigo almeja discutir em que medida o conceito de waḥdat al-wujūd retrata o pensamento de Ibn ‘Arabī e se ele pode representar uma concepção monista e panteísta na lógica akbari. Pautado pela metodologia da Fenomenologia da Religião, iniciará apresentando a avaliação de Abū l-ʻAlā’ ʻAfīfī (Afiffi), que considera o pensamento akbari...
Indian Journal of Psychiatry
July 1, 2022
Gokul Raj
3 citations
Sir, Psychedelic studies have reported positive results for depression and anxiety related to cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, treatment-resistant depression, and tobacco and alcohol dependence.[1] Although there are no active psychedelic research studies going on in India, there is growing interest about these substances as evident by numerous social media groups and pages with a...
Caietele Echinox
June 30, 2022
Nadejda Ivanov
"This study presents a hermeneutics of the fantastic novel The Snake by Mircea Eliade in key of the problem of recovering the androgynous state of the couple Serge Andronic and Dorina. The mystical act is realized thanks to a profound experience of rediscovering the sacred and its inner experience, in a space that has become illo tempore. “Fallen” at the roots of the being, the characters face...
Korean Society for Holistic Convergence Education
June 30, 2022
Korean Society For Holistic Convergence Education, Il Sik Kim
The purpose of this study is to finds a way to Transpersonal suggested by the West in the Korean Traditional Self-discipline. To analyze the relationship between 'Transpersonal' and 'Brain integrating' based on The Korean Sundo which is the 4th step of the brain education program consisting of 5 steps, and examine the applicability of 'Brain integrating' as a method to reach Transpersonal....
IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE
June 30, 2022
O. A. Polyakova
The paper explores Michael Harner's “basic shamanism” as a syncretic phenomenon in modern culture. Neo-shamanism is considered as a subculture or syncretic form of new religious consciousness that combines with elements of traditional cultures and elements of modern psychology and mysticism (esotericism) in modern popular culture. The article defines the problem of the emergence and development...
medRxiv
June 16, 2022
Caroline L. Alves, Thaise G. L. de O. Toutain, Joel Augusto Moura Porto et al.
preprint
There is a growing interest in the medical use of psychedelic substances as preliminary studies using them for psychiatric disorders have shown positive results. In particularly, one of these substances is N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) an agonist serotonergic psychedelic that can induce profound alterations in state of consciousness. In this work, we propose a computational method based on...
Routledge eBooks
June 9, 2022
Colm O'Shea
Considers whether the impulse to transcend the experiential subject-object division is more predominantly “mystic” (i.e., a radical ego “shattering” which destroys the craving and aversion that produces suffering) or “morbid” (i.e., the same ego dissolution, but experienced in a way that increases suffering). It considers the elaborate geometric designs produced by schizophrenic artists—notably...
Religions
June 6, 2022
Rob Faesen
Although a convergence between theology and mystical literature can be observed in recent years, it is not always very clear what the relationship between the two is. That there has been a gap between the two, for several centuries, is obvious. A passage in Teresa of Avila’s work is a sign of this, as are the difficulties the Jesuit Balthasar Alvarez encountered during his lifetime. However,...