Textual Practice
2018
Patricia Waugh
5 citations
'Events occur in my mind', Spark has written, 'and I record them'. What does it mean to hear something that isn't there? Hearing inner speech or sounds, not as silent thoughts but as quasi-perceptual events in the world, confounds settled distinctions between perception, memory and imagination that structure our feeling of the real. This essay shows how her capacity for complex 'listening in'...
Journal of anesthesia history
2018
Jane S Moon, Catherine M Kuza, Manisha S Desai
6 citations
William James greatly influenced the fields of psychology, philosophy, and religion during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This was the era of Modernism, a time when many writers rejected the certainty of Enlightenment ideals. Positivism, which rose to prominence in the early 19th century, had emphasized physical phenomena, empirical evidence, and the scientific method. Darwin's On the...
Progress in Brain Research
2018
Joseph P Barsuglia, Martin Polanco, Robert Palmer et al.
37 citations
Ibogaine is a plant-derived alkaloid and dissociative psychedelic that demonstrates anti-addictive properties with several substances of abuse, including alcohol. 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) is a naturally occurring psychedelic known to occasion potent mystical-type experiences and also demonstrates anti-addictive properties. The potential therapeutic effects of both compounds...
Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences
2018
Frederick S. Barrett, Roland R. Griffiths
268 citations
This chapter begins with a brief review of descriptions and definitions of mystical-type experiences and the historical connection between classic hallucinogens and mystical experiences. The chapter then explores the empirical literature on experiences with classic hallucinogens in which claims about mystical or religious experiences have been made. A psychometrically validated questionnaire is...
December 20, 2017
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, C. Crouch
Theological approaches to religious experience attribute the same if not a higher degree of reality to it as to everyday experience1. In this, theology differs from philosophy, for which the existence of religious experience remains subject to debate. Phenomenology’s “legitimization” of religious experience as a subject matter of philosophical research goes back to the larger phenomenological...
Jurnal Theologia
December 7, 2017
Anang Haderi
Abstract: This article will elaborate the sufism thought of Fethullah Gulen. He has transformed Sufism from purely spiritual experience turned into an activity that is directly in contact with the issue of Muslims and human beings on this earth. Two of the most prominent organizer of the mystical transformation is education and the world peace movement. He tried to bring peace to the world...
Mağallaẗ al-ḥikmaẗ li-l-dirāsāt al-iğtimāՙiyyaẗ
December 1, 2017
حورية منصوري
الجسد | الرمز | الفلسفة | الدين | النفس | العالم العلوي | العالم السفلي | الجسم | إتيقا | التصوف | فلسفة الجسد | سيميائية الجسد | Body | Flesh | Symbol | Philosophy | Religion | Mysticism | The Heavenly World | The Underworld | Ethics | Philosophy of the Body | Semiotics of the Body
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia
December 1, 2017
Emilia Wieliczko-Paprota
1 citation
Abstract The paper explores the theme of mysticism in Laurence Housman’s fairy tale “The Moon-Flower” (1895). It presents the main assumptions of a Victorian inner journey toward a mystical union and analyses symbols which construct the inner landscape which undergoes a mystic transformation. The author attempts to show the metamorphosis of the fairy tale’s main characters and identify its...
Journal of Transport History
December 1, 2017
Guillermo Giucci
1 citation
In this paper, I seek to explore the concept of mystical mobility as a way of addressing travelling and thus using mobility resources that go beyond the transport agenda. I propose to address innovative paths and research questions by discussing alternative cultural geographies in order to seriously reconsider the concept of mobility in a broad sense. The work aims to introduce the notion of...
University Library Heidelberg
November 17, 2017
Andrew Paquette
4 citations
Mystical experiences and spiritual dreams have been studied to learn how to define them, who has them, and why. Rarely is the content taken seriously except as evidence of physical or psychological pathology, religious beliefs, or the influence of local culture. A challenge posed by spiritual dream content and mystical experiences in general, is that spiritual experiences refer exclusively to...