Religions, 2022 This paper proposes to study mystical experience by contrasting it with “ordinary” experience, i.e., with standard consciousness. It emphasises the construed nature of standard consciousness and the role that the mutual connectedness of mental contents ...
Johannes Bronkhorst
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Mystical Experience: Women’s Pathway to Knowledge
Religions, 2023 This article aims to reflect on two issues within the vast area of mystical studies: 1. The link between mystical experience and knowledge; 2. Mystical experiences lived through by women as a pathway to and from knowledge.
Maria Clara Bingemer
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Integrating the Mystical Experience Questionnaire Into a Broader Psychometric Framework: English Validation of the Psychedelic Experience Scale and Comparison of Psilocybin and LSD Sessions Across Two Controlled Settings [PDF]
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric ResearchObjectives For English, the validated part of Psychedelic Experience Scale (PES48) is a four‐factor structure called the Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ30).
Kurt Stocker +8 more
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Psychedelic Epistemology: William James and the “Noetic Quality” of Mystical Experience
Religions, 2021 William James proposed in 1902 that states of mystical experience, central to his idea of religious experience, can be identified based on their ineffability and their noetic quality. The epistemological category of the noetic quality, modified by W.
Ron Cole-Turner
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Rumi's Mysticism in the Field of Religious and Mystical Experiences [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2022 Religion, as one of the most important fields of knowledge, has different aspects, including the esoteric and inner fields. In modern mystical studies, esoteric or personal experiences about God are interpreted as “religious and mystical experience”.
Marziyeh Rastgar +2 more
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Neural correlates of mystical experience [PDF]
Neuropsychologia, 2016 Mystical experiences, or subjectively believed encounters with a supernatural world, are widely reported across cultures and throughout human history. Previous theories speculate that executive brain functions underpin mystical experiences. To evaluate causal hypotheses, structural studies of brain lesion are required.
Irène Cristofori +2 more
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Psychedelics, Mystical Experience, and Therapeutic Efficacy: A Systematic Review [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 James Rucker
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Validation of the revised Mystical Experience Questionnaire in experimental sessions with psilocybin [PDF]
Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2015 Frederick S Barrett +2 more
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The Mystical Experience Questionnaire 4-Item and Challenging Experience Questionnaire 7-Item [PDF]
Psychedelic Med (New Rochelle)Justin C Strickland +2 more
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Psychedelic-induced mystical experiences: An interdisciplinary discussion and critique
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 Contemporary research on serotonergic psychedelic compounds has been rife with references to so-called ‘mystical’ subjective effects. Several psychometric assessments have been used to assess such effects, and clinical studies have found quantitative ...
Sharday Mosurinjohn +2 more
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