Religion Compass
August 17, 2023
Brad Stoddard
Abstract Scholars across the academic spectrum have written about the renewed interest in psychedelics that is commonly called the Psychedelic Renaissance (PR). Psychedelic religion is a major component of the PR, as psychedelic churches are growing exponentially and as people who consume and who research psychedelics routinely contend that these substances induce or occasion religious,...
Religions
August 8, 2023
Ismail Lala, Reham Alwazzan
7 citations
Abū ‘Alī ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1027) is regarded as the most influential philosopher in Islamic intellectual history. Of his numerous contributions, none has garnered more attention than his ontological proof for the existence of God, known as ‘the Demonstration of the Truthful’ (Burhān al-ṣiddiqīn). In this proof, Ibn Sīnā argues that only one being can be ‘necessarily existent’ (wājib al-wujūd)....
Philosophies
July 21, 2023
Márk Losoncz
1 citation
This article not only mentions spiritual anarchism nominally, as do so many previous articles, but tries to define it as precisely as possible. The definition assumes that the self itself can be a source of unjustifiable authority and a limitation to freedom, and that spiritual anarchism is nothing more than being open to that which transegoically transcends our narrow perspective. The article...
مطالعات ادیان و عرفان تطبیقی
July 1, 2023
Sajad Vaezi, Sayed Mohamad Rats Gofer, Mohammad Nasiri et al.
The quest for liberation is one of the queries that has been widely reflected in the sayings of Sufism and the elders of Khorasan. In this research, the issue of emancipation, which has been addressed in several verses of the Qur'an and on the other hand has been the concern of the people of knowledge and the wise master in different times and places, is studied in the important mystical school...
Journal of Religious and Social Studies
June 30, 2023
Sadia Javed
Being a part of this spatiotemporal “phenomena” and wishing the knowledge of the “neuroma” or “Divine Reality,” which is above our commonly known capabilities and tools of acquiring knowledge through a particular way of meditation and absorbing mystical experience, is the main feature of mysticism. So questions arise: What is the nature of this experience? What are its essential...
Religions
June 27, 2023
Antti Piilola
Ineffability is a long-time partner of the philosophy of religion and mysticism. Through apophatic conceptions of the divine, it can act to guarantee the transcendence of the divine, elevate it to something beyond our conceptions. It has also held the central role in defining if not the nature, then at least the characteristics of mystical experience. Sometimes it is that which affirms the...
Studia historiae ecclesiasticae
June 12, 2023
Andries Raath
Cape Pietism is a hybrid, transnational and transconfessional form of spirituality, emanating from the Pietistic movement in Germany, with its emphasis on medieval mysticism, piety and spiritual devotion to Christ, and Dutch Second Reformation influences. Feminine Pietists in South African frontier communities were the practitioners of this form of spirituality, analogous to similar trends in...
Numen
May 31, 2023
Matei Iagher
Abstract This article examines the genealogy of the concept of “transconscious,” a key notion in the work of Mircea Eliade. It argues that the “transconscious” is the inheritor of a long psychological tradition in the study of religion, namely that of the religious faculty. The first section looks at the religious faculty in the work of Max Müller and some of his German post-Kantian precursors,...
Anthropology Today
May 31, 2023
Nicolas Langlitz
13 citations
As regulatory agencies have put psychedelics on an expedited path to market approval, North Americans and Europeans might turn away from their repression and join the subset of cultures that have institutionalized the use of hallucinogenic drugs. What is the place of anthropology in this psychedelic renaissance? More specifically, how should anthropology relate to the cycles of hype and...
May 15, 2023
Jacob S. Aday, Emily K. Bloesch, Alan K. Davis et al.
3 citations
preprint
Psychedelic drugs are currently being investigated for their potential to facilitate a variety of long-lasting psychological changes. One area of psychological functioning that has yet to be systematically investigated in psychedelic research regards aesthetic experiences. This is surprising given the notable acute changes in perception induced by the drugs as well as the wealth of anecdotal...