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The revival of the psychedelic experience scale: Revealing its extended-mystical, visual, and distressing experiential spectrum with LSD and psilocybin studies

open access: yesJournal of Psychopharmacology, 2023
Background: Research with the Psychedelic Experience Questionnaire/Scale (PES) focuses on questions relating to mystical experience (Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ)).
Kurt Stocker   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Connection 100—An Auto-Ethnography of My (Mystical) Connection Experiences

open access: yesReligions, 2022
This paper provides an autoethnographic accounting and analysis of my own mystical experiences, called connection experiences in this paper. This account, which is structured around a description of my early experiences, attempts to weave together ...
Mike Sosteric
doaj   +1 more source

Mystical Experience: Pathology, or Supernormality?

open access: yesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2017
In the contemporary humanities there is still a problem with the understanding of the great texts of Western Mysticism – the common interpretations oscillate between taking the mysticism as the pathology or as the supernormality.
Zofia Rosińska
doaj   +1 more source

What Has History to Do with Philosophy? Insights from the Medieval Contemplative Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper highlights the corrective and complementary role that historically informed philosophy can play in contemporary discussions. What it takes for an experience to count as genuinely mystical has been the source of significant controversy; most ...
Van Dyke, Christina
core   +1 more source

The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Most characterizations of mystical experience emphasize its private, esoteric, and non-sensory nature. Such an understanding is far removed from the original meaning of the term mystikos.
Bradshaw, David
core   +1 more source

Mística y Alteridad. Una demanda para nuestro tiempo

open access: yesFranciscanum, 2017
With the emergence of existential questions that arise amidst the complexity and diversity of comprehension and postures regarding the mystical human experience, the following article aims to deepen into the roots and components of the otherness and ...
Rosana Elena Navarro S.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Jean Paul Sartre: The Mystical Atheist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Within Jean Paul Sartre’s atheistic program, he objected to Christian mysticism as a delusory desire for substantive being. I suggest that a Christian mystic might reply to Sartre’s attack by claiming that Sartre indeed grasps something right about the ...
Gellman, Jerome
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Practice and the Comparative Study of Mysticism: \u3cem\u3eThe Yoga Sūtra\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eThe Cloud of Unknowing\u3c/em\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In his entry for the term “mysticism” in the updated edition of the Encyclopedia of Religion, Peter Moore writes that “the varieties of mystical practice tend to receive less scholarly attention than the varieties of experience or doctrine.”1 Bernard ...
Young, Glenn
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Mysticism and mental health: A critical dialogue

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
Contemporary research suggests that a path is now open for critical dialogue between mysticism and mental health. Data are accumulating regarding the frequency with which mystical experience occurs in the general population.
George Drazenovich, Celia Kourie
doaj   +1 more source

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