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Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2019 Although many researchers in psychology, religious studies, and psychiatry recognize that there is overlap in the experiences their subjects recount, disciplinary silos and challenges involved in comparing reported experiences have left us with little ...
Ann Taves
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Resisting Hubris: For A Stoic Ethics of Power in Leadership Development
Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay advances a philosophical and Stoic reinterpretation of hubris that challenges the reductionist treatment it has received in contemporary management research. Whereas most studies, shaped by a positivist epistemology, have sought to quantify the effects of leader hubris on performance, this essay reclaims the concept's original ...
Valérie Petit, Xavier Pavie
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ENTHEOGENS, MYSTICISM, AND NEUROSCIENCE
Zygon, 2014 Entheogens or psychedelic drugs such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin are associated with mystical states of experience. Drug laws currently limit research, but important new work is under way at major biomedical research facilities ...
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Modern deaths have become reiterations. That is, despite exhibiting a seemingly high‐level of diversity in death's representations in everyday lives, death suffers from a particular onto‐epistemological poverty that prevents it from being imagined otherwise.
Zhaoxi Zheng +2 more
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Dzieło muzyczne jako droga do doświadczeń transcendentnych lub mistycznych. Perspektywa filozoficzna
Muzyka w Kontekście Pedagogicznym, Społecznym i KulturowymThis article aims to investigate the relationship between musical works and transcendental or mystical experiences among listeners. The analysis was conducted within the context of philosophical research.
Tomasz Trzciński
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Mystical Experience: Its Nature Features [PDF]
حکمت معاصر, 2011 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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, 2017 We explored the effects of alcohol on expectancy-driven mystical and quasi-mystical experiences by manipulating participants’ expectations. By using the so-called God Helmet suggestion, participants were led to believe that a placebo brain stimulation ...
David L R Maij, M. van Elk, U. Schjoedt
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Retrieving Your Concepts: Iris Murdoch on Original Sin
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract In The Sovereignty of Good, Iris Murdoch argues that our moral thinking will be impoverished until it possesses a secular conception of original sin. Such a notion would need to remove unacceptable Christian baggage while retaining a genuine claim to be a descendant of the original Christian concept.
Samuel Filby
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On the ineffability and the noetic quality of mystical experiences
EikasíaAccording to William James, mystical states of consciousness are characterized, among other features, by their noetic quality, i. e., some knowledge obtained is through them.
Gabriel Martínez Villarreal
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