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March 4, 2021 Mark A. McIntosh
Abstract By the time of early modernity, a widely deployed tenet of Christian thought had begun to vanish. The divine ideas tradition, the teaching that all beings have an eternal existence as aspects of God’s mind, had functioned across a wide range of central Christian doctrines, providing Christian thinkers and mystical teachers with a powerful theological capacity: to illuminate the...
Journal of Psychopharmacology March 4, 2021 Tim Hirschfeld, Timo T Schmidt 90 citations
Background: Psilocybin is the psychoactive component in Psilocybe mushrooms (‘magic mushrooms’). Whether and how the quality of the psilocybin-induced experience might mediate beneficial health outcomes is currently under investigation, for example, in therapeutic applications. However, to date, no meta-analysis has investigated the dose-dependency of subjective experiences across available...
Routledge eBooks March 2, 2021 Andrew C. Papanicolaou
In this chapter, I classify the mystical experiences in two broad categories: spontaneous and intentionally sought. In the first belong those states that arise unexpectedly for largely unknown reasons. In the other belong those states that are sought deliberately by means of different behavioral and psychophysiological methods. The purpose of the distinction and comparison of the two types is...
Routledge eBooks March 2, 2021 Andrew C. Papanicolaou
In this chapter, I provide clear descriptions of the mystical states and I differentiate them from similar ones with which they are often confused (e.g. with beatific “visions” or “psychic” or “near death” experiences). In it, I also clarify the use of the concept of “understanding” as it applies to the “ineffable” mystical experiences. Finally, I comment on the metaphysical preconceptions with...
March 2, 2021 Andrew C. Papanicolaou
In this chapter, the highlights of the history of the ritual use of psychedelic substances are reviewed and the most common ones are briefly sketched as a preparation for subsequent discussion of the neurochemical correlates of mystical states. Specifically, the use of psychedelics among the ancient Hindus, mentioned extensively in the Vedas; among the members of the Native American Church and...
Berkeley Undergraduate Journal March 1, 2021 Harrison Rappaport
Modern psychological research on meditation has demonstrated its extensive psychological and physical benefits. Much of this modern research relies on ‘mindfulness’ training protocols, such as the popular MBSR program (from the 1970s) and similar offshoots. Though certainly useful, these mindfulness interventions are limited in scope. Their contents do not reflect voluminous recent research...
Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World March 1, 2021 Saleem Al-Bahloly 1 citation
This article details how existential phenomenology, mystical theology and abstraction came together in the practice of Shakir Hassan Al Saʿid in the 1960s in order to produce a grammar of experience that might establish some human relationship to a universe rendered meaningless by scientific developments.
Journal of Psychopharmacology February 20, 2021 Albert Garcia‐romeu, Frederick S. Barrett, Theresa M. Carbonaro et al. 101 citations
Background: Growing evidence suggests psilocybin, a naturally occurring psychedelic, is a safe and promising pharmacotherapy for treatment of mood and substance use disorders when administered as part of a structured intervention. In most trials to date, psilocybin dose has been administered on a weight-adjusted basis rather than the more convenient procedure of administering a fixed dose....
Anesthesia & Analgesia February 17, 2021 Peter G. Brindley 49 citations
It is tough to write about psychedelics without a few gratuitous puns. Regardless, Michael Pollan’s “How to Change Your Mind” is definitely “mind expanding” and deserves my “highest” recommendation. Published in 2019, this book comprehensively and presciently covers a topic of increasing interest: whether psychedelic agents can revolutionize mental health. Pollan is not a Medical Doctor but is...
February 14, 2021 Amatulhafeez Alvi, Rahma Alvi, A.A. Alvi
Abstract. This paper is a comparative descriptive investigation of the mystical representation of death in the poetry of the English poet John Donne and the Arabic poet AbulAlaa Al-Ma’arri. Highlighting their life circumstances and the religious, intellectual, economic and psychological factors that shaped their specific perceptions of Death, the study reflects upon the mystic elements in both...