bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
June 11, 2020
Tim Hirschfeld, Timo Torsten Schmidt
8 citations
preprint
Abstract Psilocybin is the active component of magic mushrooms and is well known for its psychoactive properties. Different questionnaires have been developed to systematically quantify altered states of consciousness induced by psychoactive drugs. The aim of this study was to obtain the dose-response relationships of the subjective experiences induced by psilocybin in healthy study...
June 10, 2020
S. Joseph
The categorical identification of the historical Jesus continues to be a central challenge in Jesus Research yet the identification of the historical Jesus as a first-century Jewish mystic has long been a popular topic among Western esotericists, Christian mystics, contemporary New Age authors, and some biblical scholars. Taking a critical look at the category and study of mysticism in Jesus...
Russian Journal of Church History
June 7, 2020
Y. Rodionova
2 citations
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Literature Compass
June 1, 2020
Christine Battersby
Abstract: This article locates Simone de Beauvoir in the stream of consciousness, metaphysical novel, and Bildungsroman writing traditions. Its focus is the two opening chapters from the 1938 draft of Beauvoir's first novel, She Came to Stay —first published in French in 1943 as L’Invitée —and deleted at the insistence of her publishers. Although Beauvoir's own philosophical fictions are, in...
Iluminace
June 1, 2020
D. Strutt
2 citations
In recently received event invitations and articles in online tech publications such as Wired, Futurism and The Verge,1) I have noticed an interesting pattern of a kind of “spiritual” attention being paid towards new digital immersive technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). I attended one such event (in which an acquaintance, a “ritual designer”, was involved) and my...
هنر اسلامی
May 27, 2020
Gholamhossein Khammar, Habib Jadidolislami, Mustafa Salari
One of the fundamental changes that have taken place in the last two decades in the study and analysis of artworks, especially poetry, is the utilization of psychological knowledge gains. Among the many facets of this knowledge, the school of humanistic psychology is of particular importance because it describes positive human components and provides a superior model of humankind and its...
May 25, 2020
William L. Davis
Chapter One contextualizes Joseph Smith's use of a "seer stone" to compose the Book of Mormon within contemporary folk magic practices, the philosophies of Western esotericism, and Christian occultism. The seer stone (sometimes described as a "Urim and Thummim") represented one of several folk magic practices that the Smith family pursued, most notably in relation to "money digging" or treasure...
Journal of Beliefs and Values
May 13, 2020
Leslie J. Francis, R. Powell, A. Village
ABSTRACT The psychological and pathological correlates of mystical experience have been debated since the early days of the psychology of religion. In the present study the association between mystical experience and emotional wellbeing was tested among 1,266 Australian church leaders who completed the Eysenck Neuroticism Scale alongside the Francis-Louden Mystical Orientation Scale. No...
May 1, 2020
Y. Casewit
Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī’s (d. 668/1269) heretofore unedited and unstudied treatise, “On the Limits [of Theology and Sufism]” (R. al-Quṣāriyya) is a succinct account of the celebrated Andalusī Sufi poet’s understanding of the relationship between discursive knowledge (ʿilm) of the rational Ashʿarite theologians, direct and unitive recognition (maʿrifa) of the Sufis, and verified knowledge...
Contemporary European History
May 1, 2020
J. Quijada
67 citations
Abstract In the 1960s a shift occured in how shamanism was represented in Soviet anti-religious journals, in which shamanism was transformed from an ethnographically documented cultural practice peculiar to Siberian indigenous populations, into an – albeit ‘primitive’ – form of a universal human capacity for altered states of consciousness and a precursor of various forms of mysticism. The...