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2022
Abstract Mystical experiences are among the most well-studied spiritual experience. This chapter defines mystical experience as inner experiences involving an intensely felt fading of the sense of self and/or feelings of increased connectedness, up to and including the sense of complete unity.
David B. Yaden, Andrew B. Newberg
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Abstract Mystical experiences are among the most well-studied spiritual experience. This chapter defines mystical experience as inner experiences involving an intensely felt fading of the sense of self and/or feelings of increased connectedness, up to and including the sense of complete unity.
David B. Yaden, Andrew B. Newberg
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Mystical Experience in the Lab
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2014We review previous attempts to study mystical experience and point to problems inherent to certain methodologies. Focusing on studies that use controlled environments we advocate taking an experimental approach to mysticism. To demonstrate the viability of this approach, we report findings from a new study that probes the potential for eliciting ...
Andersen, Marc Nicklas +3 more
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2023
Abstract This chapter tackles the issue of whether mystical experiences are psychedelic -- that is, whether they are mind-revealing. The chapter argues that to answer this question, we need to be able to define mystical experiences and that this cannot be done, given their ineffability.
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Abstract This chapter tackles the issue of whether mystical experiences are psychedelic -- that is, whether they are mind-revealing. The chapter argues that to answer this question, we need to be able to define mystical experiences and that this cannot be done, given their ineffability.
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2020
Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First-Century Approaches embarks on an investigation of the concept of mysticism from the standpoint of academic fields, including philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, mysticism studies, literary studies, art criticism, cognitive poetics, cognitive science, psychology, medical research, and even mathematics ...
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Mysticism and Experience: Twenty-First-Century Approaches embarks on an investigation of the concept of mysticism from the standpoint of academic fields, including philosophy, anthropology, religious studies, mysticism studies, literary studies, art criticism, cognitive poetics, cognitive science, psychology, medical research, and even mathematics ...
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Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2016 © 2016 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. Developing methods for improving creativity is of broad interest. Classic psychedelics may enhance creativity; however, the underlying mechanisms of action are unknown.
Larry W Bates, Peter S Hendricks
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Religious Studies, 1989
The definition of mysticism has shifted, in modern thinking, from a patristic emphasis on the objective content of experience to the modern emphasis on the subjective psychological states or feelings of the individual. Post Kantian Idealism and Romanticism was involved in this shift to a far larger extent than is usually recognized.
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The definition of mysticism has shifted, in modern thinking, from a patristic emphasis on the objective content of experience to the modern emphasis on the subjective psychological states or feelings of the individual. Post Kantian Idealism and Romanticism was involved in this shift to a far larger extent than is usually recognized.
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Is Mystical Experience Everywhere the Same?
Sophia, 1982Abstract The belief that mystical experience or that some especially important variety thereof is everywhere the same, regardless of the idiosyncracies of the individual mystic or of his or her cultural tradition, has been tacitly presupposed, dogmatically asserted, or explicitly argued for in much scholarly and popular literature on ...
Gary E. Kessler, Norman Prigge
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The Mystical Experience as a Suicide Preventive
American Journal of Psychiatry, 1973Three suicidal adolescents suffering from schizophrenic reactions developed the ability to conjure up a mystical consciousness. Directly experiencing this "oceanic" state (or just its memory) provided the patients with a reliably soothing safeguard against their overwhelming loneliness and possible suicide.
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Age Differences in Mystical Experience
The Gerontologist, 1993Age differences are examined in reports of deja vu, ESP, clairvoyance, spiritualism, and numinous experience. According to the 1988 General Social Survey (N = 1481), these mystical experiences are somewhat more common now than in 1973, and deja vu, clairvoyance, and a composite mysticism score have increased with successively younger age cohorts ...
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