This paper explores Aryeh Kaplan’s approach to Kabbalah, specifically the topics of mystical consciousness, meditation, God, and prophecy as presented in his Sefer Yetzirah commentary. For him, Kabbalah was operational as a path of higher consciousness; therefore, he gives scant attention to theosophic Kabbalah. Kaplan’s approach was to recreate a Kabbalah of consciousness with what he calls...
The fact that bizarre intellectual trends and teachings, like occultism, parapsychology, and neopaganism played an important role in modern German culture is thoroughly documented by scholars of German history. Experts on German-Jewish history, however, still tend to describe German-Jewish culture as one formed around the ideals of ‘Bildung’ and the Enlightenment. As a result, German-Jewish...
In my paper, I want to focus not only on the notions of givenness and evidence in Husserl’s phenomenology, but also on phenomenological work “after” Husserl. I will elaborate on how these phenomenological key ideas can methodologically be made fruitful, especially for an investigation into religious phenomena. After giving an outline of Husserl’s notions of (self-)givenness, evidence, and...
Abstract Background Previous research suggests a therapeutic potential of 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT). However, online anecdotal reports have described a phenomenon following cessation of the acute effects of 5-MeO-DMT use which has been termed reactivation (i.e., re-experiencing [“flashback”]). To date, no research has investigated whether different routes of administration...
Psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin, LSD and DMT are known to induce powerful alterations in phenomenology. Perhaps of most philosophical and scientific interest is their capacity to disrupt and even “dissolve” one of the most primary features of normal experience: that of being a self. Such “peak” or “mystical” experiences are of increasing interest for their potentially transformative...
Research into the basic effects and therapeutic applications of psychedelic drugs has grown considerably in recent years. Yet, pressing questions remain regarding the substances' lasting effects. Although individual studies have begun monitoring sustained changes, no study to-date has synthesized this information. Therefore, this systematic review aims to fill this important gap in the...
This research aims at understanding the dynamic interface between psychoanalytical clinical practice and studies within the field of mysticism, through the perspective that these areas of human knowledge offer a vast potential of mutual contributions and corrections.In such regard, the research intends to approach both the ways in which mystical studies broaden the ethical and ontological...
The purpose of the work is to shed light on the connection of the religious and mystical culture to the process of metacognition and how it is represented in the Holy Scriptures of religious texts. The methodology for acquiring new knowledge is based on a comparative research method. At the same time different states of mystics and artists were compared, texts of Holy Scripture of different...
AbstractThe authors, both anthropologists who study alternative states of consciousness (ASC), explore the psychodynamics of mystical experience (ME). An affect that is a key factor for and integral to the phenomenology of ME is what they term “mystical love.” In many respects, ME refers to ASC that is diametrically opposite to everyday ego‐centered, materialist consciousness. In this article...
Статья посвящена часто обсуждаемой в современном религиоведении проблеме типологизации религиозных переживаний. Автор фиксирует ситуацию методологического плюрализма в вопросе компаративных исследований религиозного опыта, (учеными используются разные основания и критерии для типологизации, они преследуют различные задачи, исходят из различных философских позиций). Целью статьи является...