JAMA
December 9, 1983
Donald W. Goodwin
73 citations
Along with watches and cuckoo clocks, the Swiss produce drugs. They have been doing it for a long time— since Paracelsus of Basel, a contemporary of Columbus. On April 16, 1943, another Basel chemist, Albert Hofmann, was working in his laboratory at Sandoz. His specialty was ergot, a fungus that grows on grains. Starting with lysergic acid, the ergot nucleus, Hofmann had synthesized several...
Mystical Theology and Social Dissent
June 1, 1983
Byron L. Sherwin
This chapter evaluates Judah Loew's influence upon the Jewish mystical tradition which succeeded him. Rabbi Loew's writings made a significant impact upon the two major trends in the history of Jewish mysticism which flourished after his death: Sabbateanism and Hasidism. One may discover Loew's influences in the writings of Nathan of Gaza, the principal Sabbatean theologian. Indeed, Nathan's...
Philippiniana Sacra
1982
Yves Raguin
The whole Christian world is already celebrating or preparing to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of the great saint and mystic, Teresa of Avila, who was born on March 28, 1515, and died on October 15, 1582.This event is of great importance for the whole Christian world, but there is one aspect of her life which makes it more important in this end of the XXth century, her mystical...
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
1982
Hans Hof
1 citation
Phenomena such as ecstasy and mysticism display both psychological and physical features. The purpose of this paper is finding and understanding the structures in human consciousness which characterise the experience of certain kinds of ecstasy. The context in which this task is performed is an outline of fundamental changes in consciousness brought about by those methods of meditation which,...
Religious Studies
March 1, 1981
William C. Chittick
To say ‘mysticism versus philosophy’ in the context of Islamic civilization means something far different from what it has come to signify in the West, where many philosophers have looked upon mysticism as the abandonment of any attempt to reconcile religious data with intelligent thought. Certainly the Muslim mystics and philosophers sometimes display a certain mutual opposition and...
Religious Studies
June 1, 1978
James Kellenberger
10 citations
In recent years the issue of whether mysticism can be induced by drugs has been pursued by both scholars of mystical literature and psychological researchers. R. C. Zaehner is perhaps the best known among the scholars of religious literature who have addressed the issues of drug-induced mysticism. While on the side of empirical psychology investigators such as Walter N. Pahnke, R. E. L....
Journal of the history of philosophy
July 1, 1977
Daniel Cook
19 citations
James's "Ether Mysticism" and Hegel DANIEL J. COOK THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE, James was a persistent critic of Hegel and Hegelianism . Very often he attacked Hegel with derision as well as earnest argument. One attitude that has been cited as evidence of James's light-hearted and cavalier treatment of Hegel concerns his comments on Hegel while under the influence of nitrous oxide (N20). In this paper...
Religious Studies
September 1, 1973
William J. Wainwright
14 citations
In this paper I propose to examine the cognitive status of mystical experience. There are, I think, (at least) three distinct but overlapping sorts of religious experience. (1) In the first place, there are two kinds of mystical experience. The extrovertive or nature mystic (in some sense) identifies himself with a world which is both transfigured and one. The introvertive mystic withdraws from...
Temenos - Nordic Journal of Comparative Religion
1971
K. Rob V. Wikman
No abstract available
Journal of Psychedelic Drugs
September 1, 1970
Walter N. Pahnke, William A. Richards
43 citations
(1970). Implications Of LSD and Experimental Mysticism. Journal of Psychedelic Drugs: Vol. 3, LSD. The Psychedelic Experience and Beyond, pp. 92-108.