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Mystical experiences without mysticism: An argument for mystical fictionalism in psychedelics
Abstract Mystical experiences frequently precede decreases in human suffering or increased functioning. Therapies that include the ingestion of psychoactive substances in supportive environments often lead to improvements that correlate with the magnitude of the mystical experiences generated.
Bradley Armour Garb, Mitchell Earleywine
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Mystical experience illustrates a fundamental aspect of human relations with the ultimate reality within the framework of religiosity. This article explores the mystical experiences of Hallaj and Meister Eckhart, both of whom came from different ...
Angga Arifka
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Mystical orientation and the perceiving process : a study among Anglican clergymen [PDF]
This study examines the hypothesised link between mystical orientation and the perceiving process within the Jungian model of psychological type. Data were provided by 232 Anglican clergymen serving in the Church in Wales who completed both the Francis ...
Bourke R +13 more
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Pearl and the medieval dream vision [PDF]
Based on Classical and Biblical authorities, many medieval writers used the dream vision, either as a literary device, political subversion or as a way of conveying a mystical experience.
Mackley, J S
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The Mystical Experience of Sophia in the Life and Work of Vladimir Sergeevich Soloviev
The life and work of the prominent Russian religious philosopher Vladimir Sergeevich Soloviev was deeply influenced by his mysterious experience of Sophia – the mystical vision of the personified divine wisdom.
Ján Dolný, Róbert Lapko
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Union with the transcendent God in Philo and John’s Gospel
This article analyses the experience of divine presence within an intimate divine-human relationship, as conceptualised in Philo’s writings, and compares this experience with mystical passages in John’s Gospel. The article explains their understanding of
Pieter G.R. de Villiers
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The Mystical Path of Total Abandonment to God in Jean-Pierre de Caussade and the Bhagavad-Gita [PDF]
One of the creative tensions in Hinduism is the concept of God as Impersonal Absolute vs. the concept of God as Personal. In the Bhagavad-Gita (written c. 400-200 B.C.), the concept of God as personal, loving and compassionate is emphasized.
Fastiggi, Robert L.
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Neural correlates of mystical experience [PDF]
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.
Irene, Cristofori +5 more
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Mystical Experience: Its Nature Features [PDF]
No doubt mysticism is the essence of religious experience and this experience for both those who have religious beliefs and those who have not such beliefs typically causes changes in life.
Hadi Vakili
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Michel de Certeau and Tereza de Ávila : toward literature and mystical experience [PDF]
How to think of a mystical experience? Is there any belief in a ‘negative tradition’ that constitutes a literary corpus which can propitiate a specific reading or at least a more restrict one about what we call mystical?
Bezerra, Cicero Cunha
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