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Psilocybin, From Ancestral Use to Therapeutic Potential: A Multidimensional Review of Its Pharmacological Basis and Current Perspectives

Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, Volume 41, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective This review critically examines psilocybin, with particular emphasis on its pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, including its serotonergic, neuroplastic, and anti‐inflammatory mechanisms. It integrates historical context, preclinical and clinical evidence, and evaluates emerging therapeutic potential, safety, microdosing practices,
José Norberto Vásquez‐Bonilla
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The company you keep: becoming one(self) in an Indonesian convent En bonne compagnie : devenir (quelqu’)un dans un couvent indonésien Pergaulan dalam biara di Indonesia: sebuah proses pembentukan diri*

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 927-945, September 2026.
This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 1022-1039, September 2026.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Defrosting humanism: Losing my ethical worldview in the wake of October 7th and Israel's retaliation

Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract This auto‐ethnographic analysis describes the loss of my ethical worldview and my attempts to regain it following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli retaliation. On October 7th, I was unable to feel compassion for the people of Gaza or to take action against the Israeli retaliation, aspects that I used to see as ...
Yael Assor
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A PRELIMINARY SURVEY ON ISLAMIC MYSTICISM IN JAVA

Analisis: Jurnal Studi Keislaman, 2017
Berbagai praktik mistik telah berkembang di kalangan masyarakat Jawa. Kemunculan praktik tersebut sebenarnya dapat dilacak dari konteks sejarah masuknya Islam ke Indonesia, dan Jawa pada khususnya. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi Islam dan mistisime di Jawa, yakni menjelaskan rasionalitas dari penerimaan komunitas Muslim atas penyebaran ...
Sartini, ., Putra, Heddy Shri Ahimsa, Al Makin, .   +2 more
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أعمدة التصوف الإسلامي في ميزان المستشرقين أبن عربي أنموذجاً

مجلة كلية الفقه, 2014
         Generally ,the Islamic mystical studies are the most important and essential studies in the field of the historical thought . so there is no doubt that the mysticism may rise for the hieghest range in the humanistic thought and the best one .
مشتاق بشير الغزالي
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Therapeutic Sociality: Empathy and care amongst distressed Ethiopian domestic workers

Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract Ethiopian migrant domestic workers frequently experience violence and abuse during employment, which can lead to serious emotional and mental distress. After returning to Ethiopia, some distressed women receive care at residential facilities specifically dedicated to rehabilitating returned domestic workers.
Eva Melstrom
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Revisiting the Design Argument: An Abductive Defense against Hume’s Challenge [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه
Extended Abstract IntroductionThe inference to a divine designer from the presence of order, complexity, and purposiveness in nature has historically constituted one of the most intuitively compelling arguments for the existence of God.
Ghazaleh Hojjati
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