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September 22, 2020 Moshe Halbertal
A broad, systematic account of one of the most original and creative kabbalists, biblical interpreters, and Talmudic scholars the Jewish tradition has ever produced, Rabbi Moses b. Nahman (1194-1270), known in English as Nahmanides, was the greatest Talmudic scholar of the thirteenth century and one of the deepest and most original biblical interpreters. Beyond his monumental scholastic...
September 16, 2020 Katherine Olivetti
Using a personal experience at the time of the death of her mother and a subsequent dream, the psychoanalyst/author explores the phenomenon of mystical experience. She shows how the surrender of well-developed ego structures enables vectors of intense communication to cross psychic thresholds to create a mystical experience that can be understood as being overtaken by a full and numinous...
September 15, 2020 A. Lears
This chapter begins with fourteenth-century hermit Richard Rolle's final chapter of the Incendium Amoris or “fire of love,” which recalls his early religious fervor. It analyses that Rolle's characteristic love-language demonstrates an impulse to describe his relationship with God in terms of the emotional bonds and bodily feeling of a melancholic lover. It also describes Rolle's choice of the...
Indonesian Journal of Theology September 10, 2020 L. Leonard
This article endeavors to discuss hunger as a site for mystical encounter with God. The history of Christian mysticism shows that our experiences play a significant role in the sourcing of its very theology. Upon consideration of a clarifying definition for mystical theology, I elaborate on Simone Weil’s view of hunger as mystical experience along with Dorothee Solle’s notion that mystical...
September 7, 2020 Kledson Tiago Alves de Souza
This article explains the mystical-speculative experience that Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464) proposes to the monks of Tegernsee to lead them to "sacred obscurity" or "mystical theology". The author was motivated by the prominent discussion from fifteenth century, about whether one should understand the contemplative view in a merely affective or intellectual way. This debate involved two major...
September 1, 2020 Jaime Andrés Vinasco Barco
espanolObjetivo: repensar el potencial de los psicodelicos para la construccion de un marco psicoespiritual al final de la vida. Sintesis del contenido: con las recientes investigaciones que reconfirman el potencial de los psicodelicos para lograr experiencias misticas, estaticas y de trascendencia, los diferentes enfoques de atencion al paciente moribundo se estan enfrentando a una resurgente...
September 1, 2020 J. Weston
Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding "The Waste Land," Jessie Weston's book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend. Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a bleeding lance and a bejewelled cup. She...
Mortality August 30, 2020 Mackenzie Blomstrom, Andrew Burns, D. Larriviere et al.
ABSTRACT The fear of death and dying is a multifaceted and prevalent source of human distress that can cause significant psychological and existential distress, especially at the end of life. Analysing current therapeutic approaches to this issue to identify promising modalities and knowledge gaps could improve end of life experiences and reduce human suffering. In this systematically...
Creation and Religious Pluralism August 20, 2020 David Cheetham
Abstract This chapter considers the concept of ineffability. Has this concept been monopolized by pluralists who use it to provide an object that is sufficiently mystical and unfathomable to accommodate religious differences? Does the ineffable do any work in their systems other than provide a formal category of ultimacy? The chapter seeks to investigate this by evaluating the use of...
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) August 20, 2020 Carla Pallavicini, Federico Cavanna, Federico Zamberlán et al. 17 citations preprint
Abstract Background N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a short acting psychedelic tryptamine found naturally in many plants and animals. Few studies to date addressed the neural and psychological effects of DMT alone, either administered intravenously or inhaled in freebase form, and none conducted in natural settings. Aims Our primary aim was to study the acute effects of inhaled DMT in natural...