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Wittgenstein and Maimonides on God and the Limits of Language [PDF]

, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to bring together two thinkers that are concerned with the limits of what can be said, Wittgenstein and Maimonides, and to explore the sense of the good life and of the mystical to which their therapeutic linguistic work ...
Verbin, N.
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Psilocybin occasioned mystical‐type experiences [PDF]

Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental, 2020
AbstractObjectiveResearch into psychedelic therapy models has shown promise for the treatment of specific psychiatric conditions. Mystical‐type experiences occasioned by psilocybin have been correlated with therapeutic benefits and long‐term improvements in positive mental outlook and attitudes.
Edward James, Thomas L Robertshaw, Mathew Hoskins, Ben Sessa   +3 more
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LIMITATIONS ON THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF DRUG‐ENABLED MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES

Zygon, 2019
Scientific interest in drug‐induced mystical experiences reemerged in the 1990s. This warrants reexamining the philosophical issues surrounding such studies: Do psychedelic drugs cause mystical experiences?
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Transcendent wisdom from structuralism to post-structuralism [PDF]

ادبیات عرفانی
One of most important topics in mystical philosophy is the investigation of the role of experiential structures in shaping mystical experiences and their interconnections.
Nafise Mostafavi
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Mystical orientation and the perceiving process : a study among Anglican clergymen [PDF]

, 2012
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, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Francis LJ, Happold FC, James W, Keirsey D, Keith Littler, Leslie J. Francis, Mandy Robbins, Myers IB, Stace WT   +13 more
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Psychedelic Mystical Experiences Are Authentic

Religions
The paper critically discusses whether mystical experiences induced by psychedelics should be considered inauthentic or counterfeit forms of mystical experiences.
Hans Van Eyghen
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Religious Disagreement, Mystical Experience, and Doxastic Minimalism: Critical Notice of John Pittard’s Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment

Religions, 2021
In his recent book, Disagreement, Deference, and Religious Commitment, John Pittard challenges J.L. Schellenberg’s rejection of mystical experience as worthy of enjoying presumptive doxastic trust for two main reasons.
Kirk Lougheed
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Jean Paul Sartre: The Mystical Atheist [PDF]

, 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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Mysticism among the Pedandas of Bali

Religions, 2020
On the island of Bali in Indonesia, the traditional Hindu religious leaders are the pedandas, or brahmin high priests. Their religious status is largely based on their mystical states, during which they create the highest and most valuable form of holy ...
June McDaniel
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Cheia de axé (full of axé): Spirituality, resistance, and repair in Pernambuco's Afro‐Brazilian traditional communities

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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