Journal of Psychopharmacology
March 1, 2022
Anna O. Ermakova, Fiona Dunbar, James Rucker et al.
83 citations
5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a naturally occurring, short-acting psychedelic tryptamine, produced by a variety of plant and animal species. Plants containing 5-MeO-DMT have been used throughout history for ritual and spiritual purposes. The aim of this article is to review the available literature about 5-MeO-DMT and inform subsequent clinical development. We searched PubMed...
Psychopharmacology
February 18, 2022
Dimitri Daldegan-Bueno, Lucas Oliveira Maia, Carolina Marcolino Massarentti et al.
RationaleSmoking-related disease is a major problem globally. Effective smoking cessation treatments are however limited. Increasing evidence suggests that psychedelics have potential as treatments for substance use disorders and may therefore prove an option in aiding smoking cessation.ObjectivesTo establish which factors predict smoking cessation in people who reported quitting or reducing...
The Subtle Body
February 17, 2022
Simon Cox
Abstract This chapter traces the subtle body concept through the writings of Blavatsky’s heirs, the major figures in the second generation of theosophy, zeroing in specifically on their reformulations of a mystical form of Christianity informed by the yoga of the subtle body. First, it examines the life and works of Annie Besant and her mythological subtle body interpretations of the Bible....
Swami Vivekananda's Vedāntic Cosmopolitanism
February 17, 2022
S. Medhananda
Chapter 9 concerns what contemporary philosopher David Chalmers has called the “hard problem of consciousness”—the problem of explaining how conscious experience arises. The chapter provides an in-depth reconstruction of Vivekananda’s Sāṃkhya-Vedāntic solution to the hard problem of consciousness and demonstrates its relevance to contemporary philosophical debates. The chapter first outlines...
International Theory
February 14, 2022
Andrew H. Kydd
Abstract Alexander Wendt claims that quantum physics explains deep mysteries about human consciousness and offers a radical new understanding of human behavior and social interaction. However, the claims rest on flawed interpretations of quantum theory, fringe literatures and metaphorical, almost mystical uses of quantum concepts and buzzwords. He fails to provide any account of human conflict,...
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography
February 11, 2022
Karen S. Kingsbury
Through an autoethnographic account that interweaves academic observations, my story of how I came to study Santa Muerte in Mexico and the entangled, emotive tale of Abby, a Santa Muerte devotee whom I grew very close to, I discuss the topic of belief in the ethnography of the occult and the “politics of integration”, derisively referred to “as going native”. I reveal how being an ethnographer...
Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience
February 9, 2022
Yehuda Bitty
Abstract This article seeks to direct attention to one unusual figure who provided his own interpretation of the renewal of prophecy during the generation of redemption (i.e., the success of Zionism and the creation of the State of Israel). Rabbi David Kohen (1887–1972), known as Ha-Nazir, the Nazirite, was the author of a book entitled Kol ha-Nevu’ah [The Voice of Prophecy]. His original...
Journal of Xenobiotics
February 7, 2022
Maurizio Coppola, Francesco Bevione, Raffaella Mondola
29 citations
Psychedelics extracted from plants have been used in religious, spiritual, and mystic practices for millennia. In 1957, Dr. Hofmann identified and synthesized the prodrug psilocybin, a substance present in more than 200 species of psychedelic mushrooms. Although there were limitations related to the scientific design of many studies, clinical observations performed during the 1950s and 1960s...
Bombay Hospital Journal
February 5, 2022
Sudhir V Shah
Background For thousands of years, people have been meditating. Meditation is one of the greatest gifts to humanity from ancient sages. It was created to aid in the comprehension of life's sacred and mystical powers and to connect to the higher consciousness. Meditation is widely utilized these days for relaxation and stress reduction and a way to get relief from physical illness and mental...
Kalam
February 4, 2022
H. Habib, Muslich Shabir
The existence of hermeneutics in the Islamic world, especially in the interpretation of the Qur’an is quite problematic. Some Muslim scholars consider hermeneutics to be inapplicable in interpreting the Qur'an. moreover, historically hermeneutics has a close relationship with the tradition of biblical understanding. However, al-Ghazali in his book Jawāhir-ul Qur'ān has introduced...