A growing proportion of the population is engaging in recreational psychedelic use. Psychedelics are uniquely capable of reliably occasioning mystical experiences in ordinary humans without contemplative or religious backgrounds. While clinical research has made efforts to characterize psychedelic experiences, comparably little is understood about how humans naturalistically engage with...
This research aimed to reveal misunderstanding in the interpretation of the poem “Cinta Kepayang” in the poetry book Gandrung by A. Mustofa Bisri. The characteristic of A. Mustofa Bisri poems in Gandrung is that his poems are very rich in symbols related to the thought of Islamic mysticism (Sufism). The mind is a blend of mystical experience and aesthetic experience. This study uses a...
ManuscriptNovember 20, 2021Mark Vladimirovich Shugurov, Olga Viktorovna Kostina
The paper aims to analyze the heuristic potential of the Christian religious and mystical experience comprehension through the subject of culturology. The authors focus on the culturological approach to this experience which is conceptualized as a cultural tradition. Particular attention is paid to the Christian mysticism as spiritual and at the same time cultural heritage. The scientific...
Multiple laboratories have proposed measures of subjective effects of psychedelics as potential mediators of their therapeutic impact. Other work has identified individual differences that covary with subjective responses in informative ways. The range of potential measures of responses, traits, and outcomes is vast. Ideas for new measures are likely numerous. The field will progress...
Genre: Documentary Run Time: 1 h 21 min Director Louie Schwartzberg Writer: Mark Monroe Producer: Louie Schwartzberg, Lyn Davis Lear, Elease Lui Stemp I enjoy films that entertain. I relish films that introduce me to a larger world. Above all I prize films that introduce me to the unknown and challenge those powerful interests that evaluate and control the flow of knowledge for their own...
N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a classic psychedelic capable of inducing short-lasting but profound changes in consciousness. As with other psychedelics, the experience induced by DMT strongly depends upon contextual factors, yet the neurobiological determinants of this variability remain unknown. The present study investigated changes in neural oscillations elicited by inhaled DMT, and...
RATIONALE: Classic psychedelics are currently being studied as novel treatments for a range of psychiatric disorders. However, research on how psychedelics interact with other psychoactive substances remains scarce. OBJECTIVES: The current study aimed to explore the subjective effects of psychedelics when used alongside cannabis. METHODS: Participants (n = 321) completed a set of online surveys...
Figure: EP life, spirituality, scienceFigureA younger colleague and friend texted me after a young mother, eight months pregnant, was brought in with a life-ending, massive head injury from an MVC (a man fleeing police ran into her car). My colleague called OB and the NICU to come down for a crash C-section at the door to try to save the baby. When EMS rolled through the doors, the OB resident,...
In medieval Islamic civilization, poetry was widely acknowledged to be the most intimate vessel for conveying Sufism’s hidden truths. The spiritual states and stations traversed by adepts along an ascending path to the reality of God’s unity largely defies simple descriptions into ordinary prose or everyday language. The subtleties necessary to evocatively describe a spiritual journey that is,...
Ecstatic epilepsy is a rare form of focal epilepsy in which the aura (beginning of the seizures) consists of a blissful state of mental clarity/feeling of certainty. Such a state has also been described as a "religious" or mystical experience. While this form of epilepsy has long been recognized as a temporal lobe epilepsy, we have accumulated evidence converging toward the location of the...