Recent studies have recognized the importance of non-pharmacological factors such as setting to induce or promote mystical experiences or challenging experiences among ayahuasca users. This study aimed to evaluate the association between the setting in which ayahuasca is consumed and the intensity of mystical and challenging experiences considering three ayahuasca using traditions (União do...
The field of mystical and meditative research lacks a basic typology delineating the varied genres and characteristics of the mystical experience and of the meditative practices that may be correlated to those. Such a state hinders the comparative study of mysticism and meditation through different philosophical, religious and spiritual traditions, or along the chronological development in a...
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...
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 RojoJuly 5, 2022Carlos 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...
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...
"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...
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....
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...
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...