Differential relationship between meditation methods and psychotic-like and mystical experiences. [PDF]
PLoS OneMuch work has investigated beneficial effects of mindfulness-based meditation methods, but less work has investigated potential risks and differences across meditation methods.
Palmer T +4 more
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The relationship between individual differences in gray matter volume and religiosity and mystical experiences: A preregistered voxel-based morphometry study. [PDF]
Eur J Neurosci, 2020 The neural substrates of religious belief and experience are an intriguing though contentious topic. Here, we had the unique opportunity to establish the relation between validated measures of religiosity and gray matter volume in a large sample of ...
van Elk M, Snoek L.
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Classic Hallucinogens and Mystical Experiences: Phenomenology and Neural Correlates. [PDF]
Curr Top Behav Neurosci, 2018 This chapter begins with a brief review of descriptions and definitions of mystical-type experiences and the historical connection between classic hallucinogens and mystical experiences.
Barrett FS, Griffiths RR.
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Does Psychological Flexibility Correlate with Mystical Experiences: A Machine Learning Approach Including State of Surrender, Near-Death Experiences, and Psilocybin Consumption [PDF]
Behavioral SciencesMystical experiences are characterized by a profound sense of interconnectedness and transcendence of ordinary reality. These experiences can facilitate feelings of connectedness with oneself and others and have been documented as leading to significant ...
Dylan Briggs +3 more
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Lived religion and mystical experiences
Approaching Religion, 2022 This article discusses and argues for a ‘new’ and inclusive umbrella concept for varieties of experiences that have been called, inter alia, religious, spiritual, existential, paranormal, extraordinary or inexplicable. The umbrella concept to be explored
Katarina Johansson
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Rumi's Mysticism in the Field of Religious and Mystical Experiences [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2022 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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Recent studies have recognized the importance of non-pharmacological factors such as setting to induce or promote mystical experiences or challenging experiences among ayahuasca users.
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Mystical experiences without mysticism: An argument for mystical fictionalism in psychedelics
Journal of Psychedelic Studies, 2022 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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A scoping review of mystical-type experiences and mood symptom outcomes in psychedelic therapy clinical trials: comparing life-threatening disease and depressive populations [PDF]
Therapeutic Advances in PsychopharmacologyBackground: Psychedelic therapies are gaining attention as tools to alleviate anxiety and depression across various clinical populations. However, the mechanisms behind psychedelics’ therapeutic efficacy and the potential differences in how patients with
Ana Deutsch +3 more
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Psilocybin-occasioned mystical experiences in the treatment of tobacco addiction. [PDF]
Curr Drug Abuse Rev, 2014 Psilocybin-occasioned mystical experiences have been linked to persisting effects in healthy volunteers including positive changes in behavior, attitudes, and values, and increases in the personality domain of openness.
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