Mystical experiences can bring an overwhelming sense that deeper realities have been contacted or the everyday world has apprehended as it truly is. Philosophical study of not given much attention to their metaphysical significance, especially insights they may offer on fundamental issues such nature reality, self, consciousness, and time. There are reasons for neglect, in present article I con...

Mystical experiences relate to a fundamental dimension of human existence. These experiences, which are characterized by a sense of union with God, are commonly reported across all cultures. To date, no electroencephalography (EEG) study has been conducted to identify the neuroelectrical correlates of such experiences. The main objective of this study was to measure EEG spectral power and coher...

There is evidence that an inclination towards spirituality could be genetic ( Hamer 2004 ). The existence of a god cannot be proven. We arrive at belief in God either through faith or through an interior experience, such as a mystical state.

When John Down was 18 years old, he had some kind of mystical experience. He met a girl that appeared so peculiar, that he felt sorry for her and, consciously or unconsciously, would spend his whole life searching for this phenomenon. He decided to study Medicine, became the director of the largest “Asylum for Idiots” in England and wrote articles and books about the thing that fascinated him s...

When the link between psychedelic drugs and mystical states of experience was first discovered in 1960s, Huston Smith challenged scholars religion philosophy to consider implications. Very few took up his challenge. Beginning 2006, hundreds studies have linked psychedelics not just but potential treatments for many mental health disorders. Regulatory approval therapies is on horizon, millions p...

Avicenna is a renowned peripatetic philosopher whose rationality continuously draws the attention of many scholars. In many of his works, he resorts to the hierarchy of intellects (angels) to explain the process of the emanation of the multiplicity from the One, as well as the emergence of beings. As these intellects are among the ontological causes of the human soul in the arc of descent, they...