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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Psychedelic Epistemology: William James and the “Noetic Quality” of Mystical Experience
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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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]
Objectives 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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The Epistemic Status of Mystical Experience in Ibn ʻArabī’s Legal Reasoning
Arguably the most influential Sufi thinker in Islam, Muḥyī l-Dīn Ibn ʻArabī (d. 638/1240), views revelatory knowledge and mystical experience, what he terms ‘spiritual unveiling’ (kashf), as a form of continuing divine revelation that is bequeathed to ...
Ismail Lala
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Rumi's Mysticism in the Field of Religious and Mystical Experiences [PDF]
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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Psychedelics, Mystical Experience, and Therapeutic Efficacy: A Systematic Review. [PDF]
Ko K, Knight G, Rucker JJ, Cleare AJ.
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Validation of the revised Mystical Experience Questionnaire in experimental sessions with psilocybin. [PDF]
Barrett FS, Johnson MW, Griffiths RR.
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The Mystical Experience Questionnaire 4-Item and Challenging Experience Questionnaire 7-Item. [PDF]
Strickland JC +2 more
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Psychedelic-induced mystical experiences: An interdisciplinary discussion and critique
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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Experiencing Maze (Taste) and Namaze (Untaste) [PDF]
This article used a descriptive-analytical method to investigate the introvertive and extrovertive mystical experiences of Baha Walad and Laozi, based on the views of Walter Stace.
Aliasghar Bagheri +1 more
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