PEARL
2011
Diana Slattery
1 citation
Psychedelics can enable a broad and paradoxical spectrum of linguistic phenomena from the unspeakability of mystical experience to the eloquence of the songs of the shaman or curandera. Interior dialogues with the Other, whether framed as the voice of the Logos, an alien download, or communion with ancestors and spirits, are relatively common. Sentient visual languages are encountered, their...
Science
December 16, 2010
Salvia divinorum may be this generation's answer to magic mushrooms. A hallucinogenic member of the mint family, it has been used for centuries by Mexican shamans for spiritual purposes. Within the past decade it's become popular as a legal high—at least where its use hasn't been outlawed. Now researchers at Johns Hopkins University have conducted the first human laboratory study on the plant,...
PLoS One
December 2, 2010
Gantt P. Galloway, Jennifer D. Siegrist, Lynn C. Robertson et al.
22 citations
BACKGROUND: The mechanisms of drug-induced visions are poorly understood. Very few serotonergic hallucinogens have been studied in humans in decades, despite widespread use of these drugs and potential relevance of their mechanisms to hallucinations occurring in psychiatric and neurological disorders. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: We investigated the mechanisms of hallucinogen-induced visions...
December 1, 2010
Cory Bysshe Hutchinson-Reuss
1 citation
Mystical Compositions of the Self: Women, Modernism, and Empire explores women's early 20th-century literary inscriptions of mysticism's entanglement with empire and the figure of the female at the center of each. Through an examination of selected texts by Evelyn Underhill, Eva Gore-Booth, May Sinclair, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mary Butts, and Virginia Woolf, Mystical Compositions argues that...
Arizona quarterly/The Arizona quarterly
December 1, 2010
Ayon Maharaj
3 citations
Why Poetry Matters:The Transpersonal Force of Lyric Experience in Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos Ayon Maharaj (bio) pandars to authoritypets-de-loup, sitting on piles of stone books,obscuring the texts with philology, hiding them under their persons,the air without refuge of silence . . . Ezra Pound, Canto 14 Recent critics in modernist studies have been eager to expose the often unsavory...
December 1, 2010
P. Pinto
The construction of the religious self of the members of the Sufi communities in Aleppo, Syria, is achieved through the embodiment of principles of the Sufi tradition as a form of corporality that the author calls the mystical body. This corporality is shaped and enacted in the mystical experiences that the Sufis have during the rituals and religious practices linked to their initiation into...
NeuroQuantology
November 11, 2010
D. Comings
4 citations
Spirituality is defined as a sense of being connected with something greater than oneself. That something can be a supernatural entity, nature, a social group or a family. Different studies show that a wide range of factors that influence temporal lobe function can produce hallucinations, paranormal, spiritual, mystical, and religious experiences. These factors include the electrical...
St Andrews Research Repository
November 3, 2010
Carmen Angela Cvetković
The present thesis examines the way in which two twelfth century authors, the Cistercian monks, Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) and William of St. Thierry (c. 1080-1148), used Augustine (354-430) in the articulation of their mystical thought. The approach to this subject takes into account the fact that in the works of all these medieval authors the “mystical” element is inescapably entangled...
Substance Use & Misuse
November 1, 2010
Paolo Nencini, Kathleen A Grant
The recent interest in the psychopharmacological underpinnings of religious experiences has led to both the laboratory characterizations of drug-induced mystical events and psychobiological models of religious experiences rooted in evolution and fitness. Our examination of this literature suggests that these theories may be congruent only within more modern religious and cultural settings and...
October 25, 2010
Guy G. Stroumsa
To See or not to See: On the Early History of the Visio Beatifica "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." (Mat.5:8).The sixth Beatitude of the Sermon on the Mount set the agenda for two millennia of Christian mysticism 1 .In Christian territory, the vision of God is possible, but only under certain conditions, having to do both with purity and interiority.The Beatitude also...