This article aims to explore, through established scientific research and documented accounts of personal experience, the similarities between religious mystical experiences and some effects of D-lysergic diethylamide or LSD. LSD predominantly works upon the serotonergic (serotonin-using neurons) diffuse neuromodulatory system, which projects its axons to virtually all areas of the brain includ...

Introduction: It is a basic principle of the "psychedelic" treatment model that the quality of the acute experience mediates long-term improvements in mental health. In the present paper we sought to test this using data from a clinical trial assessing psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). In line with previous reports, we hypothesized that the occurrence and magnitude of Oceanic...

This article examines the views of Eastern Orthodox and Reformed on subject divine incomprehensibility. The two regard God to be entirely incomprehensible, but differ in way that he can known or experienced. maintain is not ultimately intellectually experienced mystically. Mystical experience, according this view, theology par excellence. key means by which mystical experience enjoyed theosis, ...

C'est le compte-rendu de: Barnés Vázquez, Antonio & Magda Kučerková (ed.), The Figurativeness of the Language Mystical Experience. Particularities and Interpretations. Brno, Masaryk University Press, 2021, 279 pp., ISBN 978-80-210-9997-5.&nbsp

The present study aims to capitalise on Saint Sophrony Sakharov’s theological/mystical view of experiencing the divine Light, which Essex Abbot construes as an aspiration be pursued by any Christian, not only spiritual elites. For this reason, experience, and exhortations Silouan’s disciple believer’s partaking in God’s uncreated Light can become for contemporary man a vade mecum adapted requir...

Some individuals when they come close to death report having experiences that they interpret as spiritual or religious. These so-called near-death experiences (NDEs) often include a sense of separation from the physical body and encounters with religious figures and a mystical or divine presence. They share with mystical experiences a sense of cosmic unity or oneness, transcendence of time and ...

There are striking similarities and intriguing connections between the tradition of gamelan music in Java and Javanese mystical traditions. A game-lan is an ensemble of gongs, metalophones, drums, bowed lute, xylophone, zither, bamboo flute, and singers. Gamelans of many different types exist in Java, Bali, and Lombok, as well as in Malaysia. Some include only a few gongs; others have up to fif...