medRxiv
October 5, 2026
Praachi Tiwari, Sandeep M. Nayak, Nathan D. Sepeda et al.
preprint
Importance: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) has a 2% global prevalence, but only about 50% of patients respond to conventional treatment, underscoring the need for additional effective interventions. Objective: To assess the feasibility, safety, and preliminary evidence for efficacy of repeated psilocybin administration in OCD patients who had previously attempted psychotherapy or...
October 5, 2026
David Stephen Calonne
Abstract Jazz, Counterculture, and the Sacred seeks to explore the works and lives of the Black jazz composers Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane, Anthony Braxton, and Nicole Mitchell in relation to their fascination with a variety of spiritual traditions. The purpose of the book is to compare the ways these musicians employed Buddhism, Hinduism,...
Interpretextos revista semestral de creación y divulgación de las humanidades .
October 2, 2026
Afhit Hernández Villalba
This paper analyzes the presence of a mystical intuition in the early poetry of Elsa Cross, particularly in the books Amor el más oscuro (1966) and La dama de la torre (1969–1970), written before the spiritual experience the author underwent in India that would later shape her work. Drawing on Evelyn Underhill’s reflections on mysticism, this study proposes that the search for an absolute truth...
Stanford Humanities Center
October 2, 2026
Marie Huber
Gardens abound in the Persian poetic imaginary and have been the site of symbolic overdetermination for more than a thousand years. Unlike the classical gardens of (other)wordly desire, however, there is a garden that resists domestication to the allegorical order: the stone garden is no self-contained utopia onto which our own longing for shelter from hostile forces can be projected. Instead,...
Философия и культура
October 1, 2026
Pavel Sergeevich Kiriltsev
The subject of this study is omission as an intentional, culturally marked absence of a significant element within a mythological or ritual system, which is recognised by participants in the tradition and regulates access to names, knowledge, ritual experience and sacred boundaries. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the productive nature of such an absence as a means of organising...
Journal of Religion & Film
October 1, 2026
Hessam Abedini
This article examines how documentary film attempts to represent mystical experience through comparative analysis of Parviz Kimiavi's The Garden of Stones (1976) and American documentaries featuring Samuel Lewis, particularly Sunseed (1973). Rather than assuming terms like "sacred" or "authentic," the study grounds its analysis in empirical definitions from William James, historical scholarship...
Brain and Behavior
October 2026
Ruiqi Rachel Luo, David J. Berlowitz, Alexander Bryson et al.
Psilocybin is a naturally occurring classic psychedelic associated with widespread changes in brain function and promising therapeutic outcomes in several neuropsychiatric disorders. Complementing these findings, qualitative studies following psilocybin administration have revealed diverse and highly individual effects across multiple domains of subjective experience. However, little is known...
Psychedelics
October 1, 2026
Lorenzo Miller, Cordelia Kuiper Rauch, Keren Chen et al.
Background Psilocybin-assisted therapy has shown robust antidepressant effects among individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD); however, mechanisms of the treatment remain unclear. Depression has been associated with diminished feelings of connectedness to oneself, others, and the world, and psilocybin is thought to facilitate connectedness. This analysis of an open-label trial of...
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports
October 1, 2026
Kevin Byrne, Madeleine Odette, Eric L Garland et al.
ABSTRACT Background Healthcare workers experienced amplified depression and burnout during COVID-19. Both Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and psilocybin have been shown to reduce depressive symptoms in this population, however the psychological mechanisms by which adding psilocybin to mindfulness training improves depression and trait mindfulness remain incompletely characterized....
Journal of Consciousness Studies
October 1, 2026
Adam Greif, Gabriela Bezáková
Psychedelic-assisted therapy occasions mystical experiences and their intensity often predicts therapeutic outcomes. Owing to their spiritual import, psychedelics have been linked to supernatural thinking, religions, and cults. Several authors within the psychedelic field argue these associations render the field scientifically and ethically questionable, with some calling for the ‘mystical...