This paper examines the epistemic value of non-religious mystical experiences. By taking a angle, it adds complementary perspective to context in which experiences are generally discussed, i.e., theological questions or perspectives informed by philosophy religion. While I am pessimistic about possibilities such providing propositional knowledge external world, this discussion is largely bracke...

We are now witnessing a radical revival in clinical research on the use of psychedelics (e.g. LSD and psilocybin), where ‘mystical’ experiences at centre. Drawing in-depth interviews with 50 psychedelic drug users, we document how they draw archetypical mystical narratives, comprising three key dimensions: (1) transcendence time space; (2) deep euphoria; (3) perception being one ‘a larger whole...

MATERIAL Two EGYPTIAN skeletons of the Dynastic Period are described: each shows anomalies compatible with the diagnosis of the basal cell naevus syndrome. They are in the Egyptian osteological collection of the Istituto di Antropologia, University of Turin (Cat. Nos. E225 and E 235), where one of us (M.I.S.) was carrying out research on an Italian Government scholarship in 1967. A curious and ...