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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,...
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...