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Oxford University Press eBooks October 20, 2011 Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
The inner life rendered as exotic space reflects the modern subject’s sense of self, recognizing primal forces within. The aesthetic imagination, mystical-erotic reverie, and the interior experiences of dreams in works by Gottfried Benn, Robert Musil, and Alfred Kubin engage exotic topographical imagery, where writers undermine the Enlightenment model of a rationally unified self and to explore...
Mental Health Religion & Culture October 7, 2011 Lourens Minnema 7 citations
The mystical writings of Teresa of Avila and those of John of the Cross can be compared in many ways. The comparative approaches discussed in this paper focus on the use of spatial imagery. Both mystical authors express their transformative experiences in a variety of metaphors. Their choice of these metaphors is not arbitrary. On the contrary, it is very revealing. Several core metaphors...
Psychological Reports October 2011 David T. Bradford
This study is an 11-part investigation of the psychology and neuropsychology of early Christian asceticism as represented by Evagrius Ponticus (AD 345-399), the tradition's first ascetical theologian and possibly its mosfinfluential. Evagrius's biography is reviewed in the first section. The living circuinstaii and perceptual consequences of desert asceticism are considered in the second....
Philosophy and literature October 1, 2011 James Duban 10 citations
"Oceanic Wonder":Arthur Koestler and Melville's Castaway James Duban This study proposes that "The Castaway" (Moby-Dick, chapter 93) helped shape Arthur Koestler's interpretation of "The Sermon" (Moby-Dick, chapter 9), which figures prominently in Insight and Outlook:An Inquiry into the Common Foundations of Science, Art and Social Ethics (1949). Koestler expanded the work into The Act of...
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences October 1, 2011 Lisa Miller, Kenneth Miller, John Haught et al.
Moderated by Lisa Miller from Newsweek, evolutionary biologist Kenneth Miller (Brown University) and theologians John Haught (Georgetown University) and Nancey Murphy (Fuller Theological Seminary) discuss the questions Are we immortal? Do our souls exist beyond our bodies? and What scientific evidence is there for mystical experience? from a cultural, historical, and scientific perspective. The...
September 30, 2011 Kent Bicknell, Todd T. Lewis
T he treatment of Transcendentalism by twentieth-century teachers of literature and American history has followed a long tradition of focusing primarily on the European and American cultural influences on its major figures, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.Their work is seen as fitting into various Western currents such as...
Journal of Psychopharmacology September 28, 2011 Katherine A Maclean, Matthew W Johnson, Roland R. Griffiths 907 citations
A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no study has demonstrated changes in personality in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event. Intriguingly, double-blind controlled studies have shown that the classic hallucinogen psilocybin...
Psychotherapy and Politics International September 27, 2011 Jocelyn Chaplin 1 citation
Personal therapy has not made the world a more equal place as many of us hoped it would in the 20th century. I argue here that we also need a spiritual narrative. Equality in many forms has been central to the aims of most radical progressive social movements. The intention is often also to be non-hierarchical in their organization, thinking and lifestyles. However, few have succeeded for long....
European Journal for Philosophy of Religion September 23, 2011 Nehama Verbin 4 citations
The purpose of this paper is to bring together two thinkers that are concerned with the limits of what can be said, Wittgenstein and Maimonides, and to explore the sense of the good life and of the mystical to which their therapeutic linguistic work gives rise. I argue that despite the similarities, two different senses of the “mystical” are brought to light and two different “forms of life”...
Human Brain Mapping September 16, 2011 Dráulio Barros de Araújo, Sidarta Ribeiro, Guillermo Cecchi et al. 241 citations
Abstract The hallucinogenic brew Ayahuasca, a rich source of serotonergic agonists and reuptake inhibitors, has been used for ages by Amazonian populations during religious ceremonies. Among all perceptual changes induced by Ayahuasca, the most remarkable are vivid “seeings.” During such seeings, users report potent imagery. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a closed‐eyes...