A large body of evidence, including longitudinal analyses of personality change, suggests that core personality traits are predominantly stable after age 30. To our knowledge, no study has demonstrated changes in personality in healthy adults after an experimentally manipulated discrete event. Intriguingly, double-blind controlled studies have shown that the classic hallucinogen psilocybin occa...

Man, God and their relationship with each other is one of the most fundamental topics in mystical literature. Mystical poets, as possessors gentle sensitive divine spirit, have included between man form grace pleasantness, which has become deepest phrases works. This study examined a library comparative way tragedy Attar Neyshabouri Divan Jami. The purpose this to investigate based on basic hum...

The main goal of this functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study was to identify the neural correlates of a mystical experience. The brain activity of Carmelite nuns was measured while they were subjectively in a state of union with God. This state was associated with significant loci of activation in the right medial orbitofrontal cortex, right middle temporal cortex, right inferior an...

This article focuses on the mystical connotations of olfactory images in V. Nabokov’s prose from his French period (1937–1940). The authors analyse connection between mystical, philosophical, and aesthetic conceptions. They demonstrate that experience is not conveyed by writer directly but through narration structure forms code literature philosophy (as N. Gogol, P. Ouspensky, A. Bergson, etc.)...

This article explores the mystical experience of Sainte Therese Avila, mainly voice silence as a metaphor for spiritual transformation, more known specifically dark night soul. Developing simple and efficient literary language, Saint has built founding principles discourse marked by its social religious conditions, which have motivated emergence writing characterized immediacy efficiency, mostl...