Cambridge University Press eBooks
June 2, 2022
P. Mcnamara
35 citations
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Religious Experience, now updated and expanded in a new edition, updates key topics covered in the first edition including: decentering and self-transformation, supernatural agent cognitions, mystical states, religious language, ritualization, and religious group agency. It expands upon the first edition to include major findings on brain and religious experience...
Horizons
June 1, 2022
Anthony Richard Haynes
De la vie d'oraison is an early and neglected work by Jacques Maritain. Exploring its major themes and biographical context reveals a tension in Maritain between his commitment to orthodox Catholic mystical theology and his belief in his godfather Léon Bloy's unique, tripartite vocation of lay mystic, prophet, and artist. This tension, I argue, has been overlooked due to Maritain's public image...
American Imago
June 1, 2022
F. Restuccia
Abstract:Challenging Freud’s contention that the origin of religion is the need for a protective Father (rather than an oceanic feeling of eternity), Augustine’s Confessions (as I read it) indicates that such an oceanic experience generated the concept of original sin, to justify a theological procedure for wending one’s way back to that ecstatic experience, and thereby laid the foundation for...
Church History
June 1, 2022
Erin Risch Zoutendam
This article adds to our understanding of late medieval women's religious writing by examining the role of the Virgin Mary in Mechthild of Magdeburg's thirteenth-century mystical text The Flowing Light of the Godhead (Das fließende Licht der Gottheit). The Virgin Mary was ubiquitous in late medieval religious writing, but she played different roles and modeled different ways of life, reflecting...
European Psychiatry
June 1, 2022
Johannes T. Reckweg, Natasha L. Mason, Cees van Leeuwen et al.
3 citations
Introduction 5-Methoxy-N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a tryptamine with ultra-rapid onset and short duration of psychedelic effects. Prospective studies for other tryptamines have suggested beneficial effects on mental health outcomes. Objectives In preparation for a study in patients with depression, the present study GH001-HV-101 aimed to assess the impact of four different dose levels...
International Journal of Health Sciences
May 31, 2022
Mahdi Eftekhar
The use of psychedelics to form supernatural experiences has been and is common. Because such substances cause changes in states of consciousness and create a state similar to trance and the departure of the soul from the body or a kind of altered perception of facts. But in some cases, some additional facts are perceived. The question is, to what extent can the use of these materials be a way...
Academia Letters
May 31, 2022
Stephen R. Holmes
The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of Holotropic Breathwork in the context of a weeklong workshop called “Insight and Opening”. This workshop combines four Holotropic Breathwork sessions, daily Vipassana meditation, and formal teachings. A repeated-measure, Pre-Post test design with a 4 month follow-up time point was used. The questionnaires used were Derogati’s Brief...
Scientific Reports
May 30, 2022
David R. Glowacki, Rhoslyn Roebuck Williams, Mark D. Wonnacott et al.
44 citations
Abstract With a growing body of research highlighting the therapeutic potential of experiential phenomenology which diminishes egoic identity and increases one’s sense of connectedness, there is significant interest in how to elicit such ‘self-transcendent experiences’ (STEs) in laboratory contexts. Psychedelic drugs (YDs) have proven particularly effective in this respect, producing subjective...
Journal of Natural & Ayurvedic Medicine
May 27, 2022
BMN Kumar, Chauhan Kr
1 citation
For a long time, the human being has been hedonistic and optimistic nature but he had been surrounded by several fears, grieves, and challenges over the thousand thousands of years. His entire effort had been continuing to get the pleasure to be free from all kinds of sorrows. Over passed time, a burning reaction appeared against the Vedic regime and it was considered that the cause of whole...
Scientific Reports
May 24, 2022
David Wyndham Lawrence, Robin Carhart-Harris, Roland R. Griffiths et al.
64 citations
Understanding the phenomenology and content of the inhaled N, N, dimethyltryptamine (N, N-DMT) experience is critical to facilitate and support ongoing research and therapeutic models targeting mental health conditions and central nervous system pathology. A qualitative analysis was conducted of all N, N-DMT experiences posted to the r/DMT Reddit community over a 10-year period from 2009 to...