Interações
February 12, 2021
Miguel Mahfoud
Resumo O presente artigo apresenta convergências entre duas tradições diversas no que se refere à compreensão da experiência mística enquanto reveladora da experiência humana e de seu possível desenvolvimento. Aponta-se o processo pessoal na experiência mística: (a) na tradição católica através da concepção de castelo interior de sete moradas concebida por Teresa D´Ávila e apresentada em termos...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
February 10, 2021
Carla Pallavicini, Federico Cavanna, Federico Zamberlán et al.
73 citations
BACKGROUND: N,N-dimethyltryptamine is a short-acting psychedelic tryptamine found naturally in many plants and animals. Few studies to date have addressed the neural and psychological effects of N,N-dimethyltryptamine alone, either administered intravenously or inhaled in freebase form, and none have been conducted in natural settings. AIMS: Our primary aim was to study the acute effects of...
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
February 6, 2021
Jerome Sarris, Daniel Perkins, Lachlan Cribb et al.
72 citations
Background\nAyahuasca is a psychoactive Amazonian brew which has emerging data indicating that it has antidepressant and anxiolytic properties.\n\nMethods\nThis paper uses data from the Global Ayahuasca Project (GAP), which was undertaken across 2017-2020 and involved 11912 people, to examine the perceived effects of ayahuasca consumption on affective symptoms. The study focused on the...
February 2, 2021
J. Królikowski
The mystery of the Holy Trinity constitutes a transcendental and original principle of the history of salvation and the first subject of Christian faith. Christian faith and Christian life are both shaped in relation to this mystery. Therefore we can speak about the primacy of the Holy Trinity in the faith, which finds its expression in the gradual development and in the overall shape of...
Educational Media Reviews Online
February 2, 2021
Sarah Siddiqui
Distributed by Hard Rain FilmsProduced by Pat MurphyDirected by Pat Murphy2020, Streaming, 58 mins The documentary Psychedelia: The History of Science and Mystical Experience introduces the viewer to the world of mysticism and its relationship with psychedelic drugs and their place in modern world, with emphasis on the developments in the 20th century. The hour-long film can essentially be...
Journal of Religion and Health
February 1, 2021
Jiahe Feng, Yue Li, Yiwen Sun et al.
The aim of the study was to develop and psychometrically evaluate the Chinese Spiritual Coping Scale. The items in the questionnaire were written according to the study's theoretical conception and literature research. A sample of 415 participants with or without religious beliefs was used for exploratory factor analyses to select the items. In addition, another sample of 207 participants was...
Journal of Psychopharmacology
February 1, 2021
Rebecca L Rothberg, Nour Azhari, Nancy A Haug et al.
95 citations
Sub-anesthetic ketamine administration may be helpful for substance use disorders. Converging evidence suggests that the efficacy of ketamine for certain conditions may implicate a subset of its psychoactive effects. The aim of this analysis is to evaluate whether the mystical-type effects of ketamine are critical for clinical efficacy in alcohol-dependent individuals. In this secondary...
Transcultural Psychiatry
January 26, 2021
Natalie Gukasyan, Sandeep M. Nayak
148 citations
Psychedelic-assisted treatment is at first glance markedly different in structure and approach from mainstream forms of psychotherapy in the West. A major criticism of clinical psychedelic research rests on the difficulty of executing placebo-controlled studies and distinguishing drug effects from those of the psychotherapeutic container in which psychedelics are typically presented. Detractors...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
January 15, 2021
Mark S. Ferrara
24 citations
AbstractThis paper demonstrates that cannabis can evoke “peak-experiences”—the name psychologist Abraham Maslow gave to fleeting moments of expanded perception indicative of self-transcendence—when used alongside more traditional religious practices such as meditation, fasting, contemplative prayer, and sacramental ritual. For that reason, religious seekers around the globe have deployed...
Journal of Psychedelic Studies
January 15, 2021
Anna Lutkajtis
32 citations
AbstractResearch suggests that the clinical and therapeutic effects of psychedelics are related to their ability to induce a mystical-type experience. One particularly interesting feature of the psychedelic mystical experience is the entity encounter - people who take psychedelics sometimes describe meetings with seemingly autonomous entities which appear to possess intelligence and agency....