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...

Abstract Breath and breathlessness are flashpoints in medieval literary texts. Medieval medical theories, rooted classical thought, emphasise the bodily spirits particular, ways that motions of ‘vital spirit’—closely connected with breath—cause powerful physical responses write emotions on body sighs, swoons, even death. Physiological theory was complemented by theological notions pneuma , Spir...

This article explores the application of narratology and possible worlds theory in study religious literature Indonesia. It begins by providing an overview how these approaches can be applied to narratives. The significance Indonesia is then discussed, highlighting role that narratives play shaping beliefs practices. use Islamic epics, Javanese mystical texts, Balinese Hindu demonstrating compl...

miracles recounted in sufi’s books during different historical periods have been traced by narrative, rhetoricaland semantic developments due to various reasons; so that in early periods they have had simple interpretations and fairly believable contents. but with the passage of time and in line with political and social changes, the simplicity of these miracles has changed to exaggeration. thi...