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Religions April 29, 2021 Anne Austad, Hanneke Muthert 2 citations
William James’s seminal book, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902/2012), describes the phenomenology and ‘fruits’ (James 2012, p [...]
April 24, 2021 Rui M Costa, Arlindo Madeira, Matilde Barata et al. 1 citation preprint
There is lack of research on effects of red wine on consciousness when drank in wine bars designed to enhance the pleasurableness of wine drinking experience. Effects of a moderate dose of red wine (≈ 40.98 g of ethanol) on consciousness were examined in a naturalistic study taking place in a wine bar located in one of the most touristic areas of Lisbon, Portugal. One hundred two participants...
April 23, 2021 Flavio A. Geisshuesler 1 citation
The Integration of Eliade and Lévi-Strauss: Sacred Poles and Songs of Labor as Forms of De-historification After Vittorio Macchioro recommended Eliade's Yoga: An Essay on the Origins of Indian Mysticism (1936) to his new son-in-law shortly after its publication, de Martino's legacy leaves no traces of the Romanian giant for a decade.1Even though Eliade's lengthy article entitled "The Problem of...
Frontiers in Pharmacology April 21, 2021 Daniel Perkins, Violeta Schubert, Hana Šimonová et al. 73 citations
Ayahuasca is a traditional plant decoction containing N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and various β-carbolines including harmine, harmaline, and tetrahydroharmine, which has been used ceremonially by Amazonian Indigenous groups for healing and spiritual purposes. Use of the brew has now spread far beyond its original context of consumption to North America, Europe, and Australia in neo-shamanic...
CHANNEL Jurnal Komunikasi April 16, 2021 Nur Amala Saputri 2 citations
The presence of Youtube as a new media has opened up opportunities for alternative journalism practices. Basically, horror journalism is a form of alternative journalism that has emerged as an effort to fight against mainstream journalism in the mass media. This research focuses on how the representation of horror journalism practices in the Jurnalrisa Youtube channel. Researchers chose 3 video...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies April 16, 2021 Anna Lutkajtis 13 citations
Abstract This article reports on the experiences of four healthy individuals who attended a legal psilocybin truffle retreat in the Netherlands. The study employed a qualitative phenomenological approach, using semi-structured interviews to gain an understanding of participants' psilocybin experiences and their after-effects. The experiential themes that emerged from these case studies closely...
ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science April 9, 2021 Gabrielle Agin-Liebes, Trevor F Haas, Rafael Lancelotta et al. 121 citations
Mescaline is a naturally occurring psychoactive alkaloid that has been used as a sacrament by Indigenous populations in spiritual ritual and healing ceremonies for millennia. Despite promising early preliminary research and favorable anecdotal reports, there is limited research investigating mescaline's psychotherapeutic potential. We administered an anonymous online questionnaire to adults (N...
April 2, 2021 Katharina Dworatzyk, Tallulah Jansen, Timo Torsten Schmidt 3 citations preprint
Several measures have been designed to assess subjective experiences induced by psychedelic substances and other mind-altering drugs or non-pharmacological methods. Recently, two self-report questionnaires have been introduced to measure acute adverse effects following psilocybin ingestion and the phenomenon of ego-dissolution associated with psychedelic use, respectively. The 26-item...
Historia, Ciencias, Saude--Manguinhos April 1, 2021 Andrea Graus
This article explores the appropriation of psychiatric terminology by French theologians and priests, within the context of the pathologizations of religion in the nineteenth century. This appropriation allowed the clergy to differentiate "authentic" mystical experience from feigned or "deviant" ones. Firstly, it analyzes medical and theological manuals that sought to create an opposition...
Journal of Analytical Psychology April 1, 2021 Alexander H. Smith
This article explores clinical encounters with experiences of the 'empty ego' which arise from early relational trauma. The ego's emptiness is held in repetitious complexes and arises out of affectively charged experiences between self and other which remain split-off from awareness. This kind of consciousness is viewed as dualistic, separating non-dual subjectivity from its dualistic objects...